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Capital Injections Stabilize UK Bank Ratings at Current Levels	The “extraordinary support” provided by the UK government stands a good chance of succeeding in rebuilding confidence in the UK banking system and stabilizing UK banks at their current rating levels, Standard & Poor’s says. S&P on Oct 13 affirmed its ‘AA-/A-1+’counterparty credit ratings on Barclays NYSE: BCS) and Lloyds TSB Group (NYSE: LYG) and its ‘A+/A-1′ counterparty credit ratings on HBOS (NYSE:HBOS) and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC...	October 14, 2008
Exile for Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld	Napoleon cooled his heels on Elba. The Dalai Lama lives in Dharamsala, India. And Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chairman and CEO Richard Fuld Jr. will be banished to 1271 Sixth Avenue. Associated Press The building at 1271 has long been an overflow space for Lehman Brothers, catching all the workers who didn’t fit into the main headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. For years, that meant the people who took care of administrative and back-office jobs, and it also included the corporate c...	October 01, 2008
HSBC: Which Bank Is It Buying Today? Press 1 for ‘No Comment’	It is a small comfort to many banks, their shares beaten black and blue, that traders name them as acquisition targets of HSBC Holdings. Washington Mutual, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Citigroup, UBS, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, HBOS PLC and Bradford & Bingley PLC in the past nine months all have been named as potential targets for HSBC. This week, rumors reappeared about two of those banks: UBS and the ailing U.K. buy-to-let lender B&B. So is HSBC taki...	September 25, 2008
The Week's Best at VIN	Here are the week's top at Value Investing News1. Stock Screen: Warren Buffett Picks(via www.thediv-net.com)On BusinessWeek.com, S&P's Howard Silverblatt has a great screen with the selection criteria that Warren Buffet uses for his portfolio. Stock Screen: Buy 'Em Like Buffett2. Stock Analysis: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (MHP)(via www.thediv-net.com)The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. is a leading information services organization serves worldwide markets in education, business, industry, other p...	September 12, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round & Sudden Death	Lightning Round Bullish Cisco Systems (CSCO), Dicks Sporting Goods (DKS) and Church & Dwight (CHD). Bearish Allegheny Technologies (ATI). Sudden Death Cramer was bullish on Windstream (WIN) and bearish on Banco Santander-Chile (SAN) and Vodafone Group PLC (VOD). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockhideout.com...	August 25, 2008
SEC Naked Short List	On July 15, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission came out with an emergency order which said that effective July 21, no short selling may take place in any of the following stocks unless the trader "borrowed or arranged to borrow the security or otherwise has the security that is being shorted available to borrow in its inventory prior to effecting such short sale and delivers the security on settlement date". In other words, strictly enforcing the "no naked short sale" rule.Maybe there ...	August 13, 2008
In UBS Shuffle, a Prominent Banker Hangs Up His Deal-Making Cleats	The top ranks of big-league UBS AG bank merger advisers who have the private phone numbers of chief executives on their BlackBerry is thinning at a rapid pace. John Cryan, the UBS financial institutions group, or FIG, banker stepped out of the deal-making fray today. The troubled Swiss bank, which reported a 358 million Swiss franc loss for the second quarter, said Cryan will become chief financial officer for the bank, succeeding Marco Suter, effective Sept. 1. Cryan, a 47-year-old British b...	August 12, 2008
Georgian Conflict Fails to Spur Oil Prices	Annelena Lobb reports: The conflict between Russia and Georgia isn’t scaring crude-oil prices any higher, even though Russian attacks hit very close to an oil pipeline that carries crude to Western markets. The pipeline stretches through Georgia, from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, in Turkey. Yet earlier this year, geopolitical worries and pipeline bombings in other parts of the world contributed to crude’s three-digit tear. This time, prices won’t get a boost u...	August 11, 2008
Earnings highlights: Fannie Mae, Time Warner, P&G, Playboy, News Corp. and others	Filed under: Earnings reports, Time Warner (TWX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Procter and Gamble (PG), News Corp'B' (NWS), Marvel Entertainment (MVL)Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) blamed another big loss on housing and credit markets. Barrett Business Services Inc. (NASDAQ: BBSI) beat Q2 estimates and raised its Q3 guidance. Fannie Ma...	August 09, 2008
Russian Shares Plunge as Conflict Heats Up	Andrew Langley of Dow Jones Newswires reports: Russia’s main stock indexes plummeted Friday as a long-standing conflict over a breakaway region of neighboring Georgia boiled over. The benchmark RTS index closed down 6.5% at 1722.71, lowest since November 2006 - in reaction to military action in the Caucasus region of South Ossetia that also weighed on the Russian currency. Tbilisi sent troops into the region overnight after a series of attacks by separatists. Russia promised retaliatio...	August 08, 2008

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