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Stock Rating Reiterations: AGII BLKB CEL CNMD CSGS

Stock Rating Reiterations: AGII BLKB CEL CNMD CSGS
Last Update: 1/6/2009 10:19:52 AM
Rating reiterations for January 6 from Briefing.com:
Company Ticker Brokerage Firm Rating Change
Argonaut Group [...]

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Citigroup Rescue Plan, Pandit’s Conference Call, No. 5 By Value, TARP Funds, Deposits

By Christine Harper and Bradley Keoun
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. will probably get rescued by the U.S. government after a crisis in confidence erased half its stock-market value in three days, investors and analysts said.
Citigroup has more than $2 trillion of assets, dwarfing companies such as American International Group Inc. that got U.S. support [...]

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Did anyone really expect unemployment to decrease?

“On Friday, the government will report the change in payrolls and the unemployment rate for October. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are looking for payrolls to fall 200,000, a drop that would be the sharpest since March 2003. Economists are looking for an unemployment rate of 6.3%, the highest since June 2003.
For September, the Labor Department [...]

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Financial News: Banks Suffer As Fees Plunge By Over A Third

By Harry Wilson
Of FINANCIAL NEWS
Barclays Capital, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank were among the worst hit banks in
Europe in the first half of this year as investment banking fees dropped by more
than a third in the wake of the credit crisis.
The three banks each lost market share in investment banking and saw their fees
fall by more [...]

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Bank Group Offers Endemol Financing At Discount -Bloomberg

Bank Group Offers Endemol Financing At Discount -Bloomberg
Last Update: 6/13/2008 7:36:01 AM
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
About EUR2.2 billion in senior loans used to finance a buyout of Dutch company
Endemol NV are being offered for sale by a banking group for as little as 72.5
cents on the dollar, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing four people with
knowledge of the [...]

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Deutsche Bank, UBS, Extend Lead In Forex - Euromoney Survey

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Deutsche Bank (AG) and UBS AG (UBS) have tightened their grip
on the foreign exchange business, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The benchmark annual survey from Euromoney magazine shows that biggest market
maker Deutsche Bank handled over a fifth of all foreign exchange turnover in
2007. Second-place bank UBS also increased its market share, to nearly [...]

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Fed likely to cut U.S. interest rates by 0.25%

With improved sentiment in financial markets, economists now expect quarter-point cut, instead of half-point, when Ben Bernanke and Fed policymakers meet next week.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Futures traders and a growing number of economists are now expecting just a quarter-point cut to interest rates when Federal Reserve policymakers meet next week, with forecasters saying improved [...]

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