Financials

Credit Card News: More Miles, Bigger Cash Bonuses for Customers

Credit Card News: More Miles, Bigger Cash Bonuses for New Customers The main difference with reward cards is that you are literally rewarded each time you spend money with it. The standard process is that you gain a certain amount of points for every dollar spent. It normally makes no difference whatsoever what you spend [...]

ASEAN News: Knightsbridge Law Extends Operations to Myanmar

Knightsbridge Law Extends Operations to Myanmar Changes in Myanmar have seen the very beginning of an Economic Boom as investment, taxation and commercial laws have been changing. Resource rich Myanmar is set to see unprecedented economic growth and the need for quality Legal, Lobby and Financial services has brought Knightsbridge Law to the country as [...]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Trade Alert

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Last Friday a new 90-day call record for traded contracts was established in Morgan Stanley, with 3.4 Calls traded for each Put contract yielding a 0.29 Put/Call ratio. (Low) Options are often used as predictors of stock behavior. Investors can use Put/Call ratios as technical indicators to read for signs of institutional [...]

Geithner on Greece

US Treasury Secretary supports Greek reform package US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Sunday threw US support behind the latest Greek economic reform package and said the United States would encourage the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to back this agreement. “We welcome the program of economic reforms agreed to by the Prime Minister of Greece and [...]

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Banks and the US Economy

Bank lending is Key for economic growth Credit is the lifeblood of out modern economy. The breakdown of the credit markets was the major factor behind the severity of the economic downturn of Y 2008 and the Key reason the recovery has been so sluggish in the developed western economies. Note: rebounds from inventory recessions [...]

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Red Alert: Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO)

Red’s Bull Trade Alert: Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) 16 January 2012 Profile: Assured Guaranty Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers insurance, reinsurance, and credit derivative products that protect holders of debt instruments and other monetary obligations [...]

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French Banks are Safe

French central bank denies re-capitalization plan for major banks French central bank governor Christian Noyer Sunday denied reports of a re-capitalization plan for the Country’s major banks despite the month-long financial turmoil. In an interview with the weekly Journal du Dimanche, Noyer reiterated that French banks did not need to re-capitalize their funds “as they [...]

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Bad Loans Hit Spain

Spanish banks’ bad loans rose in July to the highest level in 16 years at nearly seven percent, the Bank of Spain said Monday. Bank loans whose recovery is in doubt amounted to 124.7 billion euros ($171.9 billion), or 6.94 percent of total assets, in July, the central bank said in a report – the [...]

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BlackRock, Inc., NYSE:BLK Heading back to $200

BlackRock, Inc., NYSE:BLK is heading back to $200 according to HCM, Shayne Heffernan said today ” BlackRock CEO Fink is on the right track with his focus on oversold equities in Europe.” Chief Executive Laurence Fink said beaten-down European equities and stocks that pay dividends are still a good bet during current tumultuous markets. At [...]

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McGraw-Hill to split into 2 companies

McGraw-Hill Cos. (NYSE:MHP) will split up into 2 public companies with 1 focused on education and the other centered on markets, featuring the Standard & Poor’s unit. The decision follows a yearlong review of the Company’s business. Investors have pushed the New York company to boost the Company’s stock price, which has dropped by more [...]

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Investor Services

Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …