EC How To Eat A Bank – Financial Review
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:14 — 6.1MB) DOW + 98 = 18,057 SPX + 10 = 2102 NAS + 21 = 4995 10 …
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“He Woke Up On 3rd Base And Thought He Hit A Triple†– A Community Banker Responds To Jamie Dimon
The recent shareholder letter by JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon provides a crystal clear example of why it’s so dangerous to encourage and subsidize the corporate welfare babies known as …
Read More Active Bond ETFs Head To Head: BOND Vs. TOTL
While the fixed income space has struggled for several months on the interest rates hike speculations, the sentiments reversed last month post the Fed’s still dovish stance. The Fed laid …
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EC GE Gets Out At The Top
Back in the early 2000s, General Electric (GE) — previously known as the world’s biggest, best managed maker of cool, useful things like jet engines and wind turbines — discovered …
Read More $50bn Friday – GE Swallows Its Own Tail To Lift Markets
Another day, another $50bn.  That’s how much of their own stock GE will be buying back (20% of the company) after selling most of their GE Capital Assets to Blackston (BX) and others. …
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GE Announces One Of Largest Buybacks In History, Will Repurchase $50 Bn In Shares After Selling Most Of GE Capital
As we showed previously, the main reason stocks soared in February after the worst January in years, is that companies announced a record $100 billion in stock buybacks in the …
Read More Best Mid-Cap Growth ETFs For Q2
Despite global growth worries and the strength in the greenback, U.S. economic growth continued to climb steadily buoyed by recovering housing fundamentals, a healing job market and increasing consumer confidence. …
Read More Bull Of The Day: AllianceBernstein
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the stock market has been on fire the last few years. After hitting a devilish low of 666 on March …
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What’s Next? Will Quantitative Easing Demolish Stock Indicators?
In late 2008, we knew we had a problem. For years we had used the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) for predicting recessions before they occurred. This leading indicator had a much …
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DDR Is Moving The Bar But The Yield Is Sub-Par
In an article earlier this week, I wrote about General Growth Properties (NYSE:GGP), a mall-based REIT that was hit hard during the Great Recession and almost went the way of the dinosaur. The Chicago-based …
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