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Heavy TD Bank Interest in Washington Mutual	Major investors are supporting TD Bank's (TD) potential bis for Washington Mutual. TD has been using the unusually strong Canadian dollar to snap up banks assets in the US, the most recent the $8.5-billion acquisition of New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp.According to shareholders "The phenomenal pace at which U.S. banks were being pushed to the verge of bankruptcy was creating a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for Canadian buyers.The main sticking point for any potential buyer is the $300B in ...	September 24, 2008
Goldman Going Shopping?	Did Goldman Sachs (GS) need to raise $7.5 billion for survival? No. It did if it wanted to go shopping for deposits though... Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is buying $5 billion of perpetual preferred stock with a 10% coupon, as well as warrants that give it the right to buy $5 billion of common stock during next five years for $115, 8% below Goldman's closing stock price Tuesday.Goldman also announced it will sell sell at least $2.5 billion of common stock to the public. That ought to give Goldman ...	September 23, 2008
Stocks Going Ex Dividend Early October	Whenever we are in a bull market, investors use a trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' which is the technique of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at approximately the same price, yet being entitled to the dividend. Please note: this usually only works in rising markets.If you are interested in buying dividends, there are several stocks in several different sectors and industries to choose from. Remember that, in order to be entitle...	September 17, 2008
Discount brokers may be caught up in auction-rate scandal	Filed under: Law, Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW), TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD)It turns out that Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) and TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD) may have sold auction-rate securities by using misleading marketing about whether or not the instruments were "cash equivalents." According to The New York Times, the "point of sale" activity at the discount and retail brokerages is similar, they said, and some of the discount brokerage firms use financial advisers or may have improperly listed...	August 16, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Mad Mail	Cramer told a viewer that Harley-Davidson’s (HOG) management is doing every thing right and the stock will be a buy soon. He told another viewer that Charles Schwab (SCHW) had a great quarter as did TD Ameritrade (AMTD). He wants to see another quarterly report out of E*Trade (ETFC) before he recommends the stock. Cramer told the last viewer that he thinks American International Group (AIG) is going lower. Once the stock gets below $20 he thinks it will have some value. Chat and share idea...	July 28, 2008
Afternoon Reading: The Genentech Price Wars	So what will Roche end up paying for Genentech? It increasing seems unlikely that Roche’s $89-a-share offer will get the deal done. When announced, the deal had a certain feeling of inevitability, given that Roche held a 56% stake in Genentech. But not so fast. Genentech said late Thursday that neither it nor the special committee has “any obligation” to agree to a transaction with Roche, nor to agree to any specific process or price based on the assessment of investment banks...	July 25, 2008
The Chicago Cubs Auction: Run Silent, Run Cuban	WSJ colleague Matthew Futterman files this dispatch on the bidding for the Chicago Cubs baseball team. For months Mark Cuban talked long and loud about his desire to buy the Chicago Cubs, even appearing on a local radio station to make his pitch, writing about it on his blog and being quoted in myriad newspaper articles chronicling his interest. Associated Press Then last Friday, the deadline set by the team’s owner, Tribune Co., for initial bids, the usually loquacious Mr. Cuban w...	July 22, 2008
Analyst upgrades: PETS, MSPDD and QLGC	Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgradesMOST NOTEWORTHY: PetMed Express, Mindspeed and QLogic were today's noteworthy upgrades: Piper upgraded shares of PetMed Express (NASDAQ: PETS) to Neutral from Sell after the company's Q1 results topped estimates on strong new customer growth. Piper raised their target to $14 from $11. Oppenheimer raised Mindspeed (NASDAQ: MSPDD) to Outperform from Perform following the Q3 results, as they believe the company is hitting its stride in VoIP a...	July 22, 2008
Dividend Basics and Who's Going Ex in Early July	I've received questions recently about all the stock dividend dates, so I thought I would clarify them for you. In addition, for those who are interested in 'buying dividends', I have listed the stocks going ex-dividend during the first two weeks of July. Here's what each of the dividend dates mean.Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular...	June 22, 2008
Target Date ETFs Need to Make a Bigger Push for Education	While target-date products, including exchange traded funds (ETFs), are seeing big growth, it's been found that many investors still don't understand quite how they work. Kevin Burke for Ignites points out that this lack of understanding is apparent in how some investors are using them, choosing to use them as an alternative to 529 college savings plans, or pairing funds of differing maturities as a diversification strategy. Other investors have been using them as they would any other investmen...	June 10, 2008

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