If Steven Cohen, the founder of embattled Stamford, Connecticut–based hedge fund firm SAC Capital Advisors, does in fact lose all or most of his outside investors, this will...
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June 5 - Hedge Funds
After yesterday morning's plunge and late-in-the-day rally, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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June 4 - News
Despite a poor report from the Institute for Supply Management showing that the Purchasing Managers Index contracted in May to 49, from April's 50.7, the major indexes all closed...
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June 4 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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June 4 - Hedge Funds
Birds of a feather flock together. And that adage was on display today as the Big Four banks struggled to maintain their altitude.
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June 4 - News
After declining 208 points last Friday to end last week lower by 1.22%, Dow Jones Industrial Average as up 63 points, or 0.41%, as of 12:50 p.m. EDT today.
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June 3 - News
Today is the day that Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) begins the journey toward having its $8.5 billion settlement with 22 institutional investors blessed or dismissed by New...
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June 3 - News
In mid May, Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management filed its 13F with the SEC, disclosing many of the fund’s long equity positions in U.S. stocks as of the end of March.
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June 3 - Hedge Funds
But sometimes the exuberance for it turns into cavalier spending habits that can take years to repair.
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June 3 - News
Bearing that less-obvious-than-one-might-think bit of investing wisdom in mind, today we're going to take a look at Citigroup Inc.
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June 3 - News
Can you believe banks would top a list of companies with overpaid CEOs? Right, that's not rocket science.
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June 3 - News
While it can be a fool's errand to try to time the market, you may be able to see this policy change coming by keeping an eye on the bond market.
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June 3 - News
U.S. stock markets have had a strong start to 2013, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 gaining more than 15% in the first five months of the year.
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June 3 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), at one time, was considered a "sexy" company. It was once considered cool to be affiliated with Apple by owning one of its products.
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May 31 - News
The housing sector got a nice boost recently, when the Case-Shiller Index reported a nearly 11% rise in March home-sales prices from the same time one year ago.
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May 31 - News
If you've followed the tale of Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) since the financial crisis, you know that there are plenty of shortcomings that the bank would like to rectify.
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May 31 - News
The housing market's recovery has been one of the best signs of the economy's comeback from the depths of the 2008 recession, and strong data from the sector has fueled stocks...
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May 30 - News
As the angst regarding the status of the Federal Reserve's QE3 program continues to roil markets, some brilliant news has been leaking out regarding the biggest U.S. banks.
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May 30 - News
After a disappointing Thursday and Friday, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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May 30 - News
A day after its biggest loss in four weeks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is back on the rise.
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May 30 - News
Lately, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hitting record high after record high. That has a lot of people wondering whether we're entering bubble territory.
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May 30 - News
The debate over whether the nation's largest banks are too big to fail rages on, as does the question of just how much in implicit subsidies these banks enjoy because of this ...
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May 30 - News
The performance of the stock market today provides a particularly prescient example of why investors shouldn't watch stock values on a day-to-day basis.
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May 29 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 10 points lower than its record-high close yesterday.
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May 29 - News
Have you ever seen anyone take notes during a flight, when the flight attendant gives the “in-flight safety instructions?” I haven’t.
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May 28 - News
Last year at this time, rumblings of a "shareholder spring" dominated proxy season.
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May 28 - News
Blue-chip stocks sprinted out of the gate today.
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May 28 - News
At the start of the trading week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is up 1.37% already.
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May 28 - News
Jamie Dimon has finally got what he wanted and he is going to remain as both CEO and Chairman of the Board at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM).
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May 28 - News
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently announced long anticipated new swaps rules.
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May 28 - News
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
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May 28 - News
After two years of reports from Bloomberg saying that the nations' five biggest banks -- Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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May 28 - News
The next selection for the Inflation-Protected Income Growth Portfolio is banking titan Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC).
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May 28 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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May 28 - Hedge Funds
On Tuesday, the shareholders of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) voted for Jamie Dimon to remain in his dual role as chairman and CEO.
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May 28 - News
George Soros is a legendary hedge fund investor and market commentator. He has written several books, built a billion-dollar hedge fund, and is most famously known for "breaking...
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May 28 - News
Legg Mason Capital is a publicly traded mutual fund, overseeing some $3.8 billion.
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May 28 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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May 28 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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May 27 - News
After taking early losses yesterday, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) and its compatriots largely recovered by the end of the day.
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May 24 - News
For the first time this week, Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) stock has dipped below the $40 mark, despite some good news on the housing front.
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May 24 - News
The wealth-building power of compound interest will never cease to amaze me.
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May 24 - News
You'd think a story in The Wall Street Journal about executives fleeing JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) might put pressure on its stock.
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May 23 - News
The commercial debt business is currently experiencing somewhat of a revival, as some of the biggest banks scramble to write more business loans that can be packaged into products...
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May 23 - News
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), the largest personal-computer maker, rose the most in three months after forecasting fiscal third-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates...
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May 23 - News
After a few days of no real news earlier in the week, the markets seem to be using up all their stored energy.
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May 23 - News
In the financial world, there are dozens of metrics shareholders can use to analyze Mr. Market. A couple of the best are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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May 23 - News
After big gains in the past few days, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) is entering negative territory for the first time in a while.
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May 23 - News
Is JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) a healthy stock for your portfolio? The best stock pickers are getting less optimistic.
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May 23 - News
Despite serious missteps leading to the London Whale trading scandal, which blew a $6.2 billion hole into JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM)'s balance sheet and earned the scorn...
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May 23 - News
