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In A Pickle: Big Agriculture Anxiously Awaits Trump's Policy On Migrant Workers
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 9:48am | 1456Read More...Farmers are poaching each other’s migrant workers, rushing to develop robot field hands and abandoning some crops altogether because of a shortage of seasonal workers that poses yet another predicament for President Donald Trump. “There’s going to be a collision of interests and...
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Why Deutsche Bank Prefers CoreCivic Over GEO Group
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 1:20pm | 534Read More...In a note released Tuesday, Deutsche Bank said it prefers Corecivic Inc (NYSE: CXW) over The GEO Group Inc (NYSE: GEO), going by the exposure each of these has to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Focus On Immigration To Help Analyst Kevin McVeigh and Ato Garrett believes the new...
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Intercontinental Exchange Announces Acquisition Of Securities Evaluations, Credit Market Analysis
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 8:58am | 283Read More...Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) announced after Tuesday's market close it has completed two separate acquisitions. Intercontinental Exchange said that it has reached an agreement to acquire Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations, Inc., a provider of fixed income evaluated pricing....
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Oil Stocks Are Surging
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 12:22pm | 495Read More...A report by the U.S. government on Wednesday indicated that crude supplies rose 1.29 million barrels last week, marking the smallest weekly gain since the seven-day period ending January 2. Analysts were expecting a gain of 3.6 million barrels for the week. The report, issued by the Energy...
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UPDATE: Deutsche Bank Upgrades Intercontinental Exchange Inc
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 1:06pm | 219Read More...On Thursday, Brian Bedell of Deutsche Bank released a year-end strategy report on Brokers, Asset Managers and Exchanges. The analyst favors owning shares of Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) along with Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ). The two exchanges offer investors “...
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Market Wrap For January 17: Stocks Finish Week With Mixed Results
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 5:40pm | 2758Read More...Stocks traded mostly lower today as investors digested a new set of earnings that were disappointing. A mixed housing data and a consumer sentiment coming in lower than expected was enough to tame the bulls as major indices finished the day mixed. Markets will be closed on Monday for Martin...
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Market Wrap For January 15: Bulls Take Over As Economic Growth Remains Healthy
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 5:45pm | 2827Read More...The market picked up where it left off Tuesday and recorded a second straight day of strong gains. The Dow posted a triple digit point gain while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all gained as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicated that economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions. The...
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Two NYSE Executives to Leave at the End of 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 3:57pm | 276Read More...The New York Stock Exchange and Larry Leibowitz are set to part ways, according to The New York Post. Chief operating officer Larry Leibowitz, brother of Daily Show host Jon Stewart, will be leaving the exchange at the end of 2013. The New York Stock Exchange is owned by its parent company, NYSE...
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The Evil Empire: BATS And Direct Edge Agree To A Groundbreaking Merger
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 4:02pm | 592Read More...By: Bryan Wiener Early next year, assuming that the ineptitude of the US regulatory system stands, the two largest US non-NYSE or NASDAQ stock exchanges will merge in a deal that has yet to be defined financially. The two exchanges, each of which trade approximately 11 percent of the average...
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KBW Upgrades ICE To Outperform
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 7:36am | 45Read More...KBW has issued a report upgrading ICE to Outperform. According to the report, "We upgrade ICE to Outperform on the back of another very strong start to the year for its core energy complex and we believe that credit activity will get stronger from here."
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Crude Prices North Of $77 For Second Day
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 8:06am | 122Read More...Crude oil prices, which jumped 3.8% yesterday after economic reports indicated a recovery in the demand for crude, remained strong for the second consecutive day. The price crossed $77 per barrel today, reaching its highest level in almost two weeks. Benchmark crude for March delivery, which had...
