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24/7 wall St. - Insightful Analysis and Commentary for U.S. and Global Equity Investors
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24/7 wall St. publishes 40 stories a day about the domestic and global markets. It covers major public companies and economic trends.
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Media Digest 11/25/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Chinese banks must raise large sums of capital which could test equity markets. Reuters: AIG’s (NYSE:AIG) CEO had his pay package approved. Reuters: The Fed sees growth but substantial policy risks. Reuters: The Washington ...
Asia Markets And Europe Open (11/25/2009)
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .4% to 9,442. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) wsa down. Sony (NYSE:SNE), Toyota (NYSE:TM), and Honda (NYSE:HMC) rose. The Hang Seng was up .7% to 22,590. The Shanghai Composite was up 2.1% to 3,291. At the open ...
Fannie Mae Delinquencies Keep Rising (FNM, FRE)
It seems that the end of the recession notices via positive GDP has not reached Main Street America, at least as far as paying for their single-family house. Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) has just reported its October 2009 data and the figures are not get...
The Great Merck Buyback.. Dividend Too (MRK)
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) barely has its Schering-Plough deal behind it. And today came the announcement of its dividend rate, but more importantly came word of a large share repurchase program. The quarterly dividend for common stock is ...
FOMC Narrows Unemployment, Inflation and GDP Targets
The November 3 to 4 Minutes of the FOMC meeting are now out, and as you have been told over and over (and over and over)…. It has the flexibility to keep rates low for an extended period. But what is of interest is the new FOMC outlook figu...
Punishing Ciena… By Everyone (CIEN)
Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) is trading higher today, a day after it’s weakness on the announced buyout of the Nortel assets. Continuing to pick on it about the risks, the leverage, and the potential inversion of the balance sheet can’t b...

