-
The Commercial Bubble is So 2009
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 1:45pm | 214Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Commercial loans had been cast as a horrific mess headed straight for the banking sector as recently as six months ago, but the impact is proving to be less painful and more targeted than some had feared. Here's why: Big banks have relatively little exposure to commercial...
-
Urban Outfitters Driven by Lean Inventories
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 1:29pm | 138Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) is a specialty retailer that competes with players like Gap (NYSE: GPS), American Eagle (NYSE: AEO) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF). The company operates two major brands, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, which contribute around 29...
-
Doug Kass Gets Short Small-Caps (IWM)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 9:51am | 137Read More...TheStreet.com RealMoney contributor, Doug Kass, just posted on Twitter that he is getting short the ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 INDEX FUND (NYSE: IWM) over $67.00. This suggests that the Seabreeze Partners General Partner believes that the rally the market has experienced this week is false and that next...
-
What's Hot On TheStreet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 5:59pm | 244Read More...Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. Why BP Made Concessions According to CFO Byron Grote, BP suspended dividend payments and agreed to fund an escrow account with $20 billion for Gulf oil spill claims, to increase confidence in the embattled company. He called it a "prudent...
-
Goldman Sachs: Financial Winners & Losers (GS)
Friday, June 11, 2010 - 2:08pm | 115Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was among the winners of the financial sector Friday, retracing some of the previous session's losses spurred by a report that U.S. regulators are probing a second collateralized debt obligation. Goldman Sachs shares rose while the rest of the...
-
Ambac Plummets; Puts Active (ABK)
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 9:54am | 177Read More...Learn how to find the best stocks to trade each day in our 70 page E-Book and 90 minute online video for free. Shares of Ambac Financial Group (NYSE: ABK) are lower on the session by 19.19%, currently trading $0.865. The stock popped yesterday after the company said that it commuted all of its...
-
Cramer's 'Stop Trading': Goldman Sachs (GIS, PEP, FCX)
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 6:02pm | 150Read More...See Some of the Top Moving Indexes Here. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As the market continues its recent bloodbath, sliding lower Monday afternoon, defensive names like General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Kellogg and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) are on the upswing. "There's been an endless accumulation of General Mills...
-
5 Banks That Might Get Burned by Reform (BAC, JPM, C, WFC)
Friday, June 4, 2010 - 9:40am | 308Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A controversial provision in the current version of the Senate's financial reform bill could lead to dilutive common equity raises at several large banks. The amendment, which was introduced to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 by Sen. Susan Collins (R-...
-
Josef Schuster Feels Tighter Regulations May Squeeze Visa, MasterCard Profits
Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 3:21pm | 490Read More...In an article on TheStreet.com, Josef Schuster, a fund manager of Direxion Long/Short Global IPO Fund, indicated that profits at Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) may get squeezed in the wake of tighter regulations. Here are some of the excerpts of Josef Schuster’s interview: On being...
-
Schwarz Says Steve Jobs Got Some Points Wrong In The “All Things Digital" Interview
Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 3:00pm | 305Read More...In an article on TheStreet.com, Jason Schwarz discussed a few points that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), missed during the “All Things Digital” interview. Steve claimed that cable operators "give everybody a set-top box for free, or for $10 a month. That pretty much squashes any...
-
Cramer's Stop Trading!: Buy Citi Stock (C, GS)
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:51pm | 117Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On his Thursday Stop Trading! segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer urged investors to buy Citi(NYSE: C) stock and own it for the next two years. Citi chief Vikram Pandit has done "an amazing job," in Cramer's opinion. Cramer said it's not too late to buy shares in Citi and urges...
-
Stocks Under $5 That Yield The Highest Dividend (CIM, KFT, VZ, PFE)
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 7:28am | 234Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Investors bruised by the recent stock market correction have turned to dividend-paying stocks for stability, and several under-$5 names like Chimera Investment (NYSE: CIM) offer outsized dividend yields to those willing to take the risk. Dividend stocks are attractive during...
-
Patrick Dunkerley Believes Macy's, CBS Will Gain From Economic Recovery
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 6:51am | 230Read More...KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TheStreet) -- Shares of Macy's (NYSE: M) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) will likely rise as the economy improves, says Patrick Dunkerley, manager of the Scout Mid Cap Fund (UMBMX). The $160 million fund, which has earned five stars from Morningstar(NASDAQ: MORN), has returned 35% during the...
-
E*Trade Reverse Split Due June 2 (ETFC, C)
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 10:04am | 176Read More...NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- E*Trade Financial (NASDAQ: ETFC) shares slipped nearly 3% in premarket action as the online brokerage said its previously approved reverse stock split will take effect a week from Wednesday. E*Trade shareholders approved a 1-for-10 reverse stock split at their annual meeting...
-
Heavy Put Buying Detected In XL Capital
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 7:50am | 231Read More...According to an article on TheStreet.com by Pete Natarajan, the global insurance and reinsurance company XL Capital (NYSE: XL) is facing a downturn of late. The negative trend continued yesterday with bears accelerating the fall. Heavy put buying was detected in XL by OptionMonster's tracking...
