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Market Snapshot: Dow Up 300 Points On Much Better Than Expected U.S. Jobs Report For November

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U.S. stocks are sharply higher Friday after a much better-than-expected employment report for November which saw the eco... Read more

The Ratings Game: Wells Fargo New CEO Removes Major Overhang For Stock, But Buyers Beware

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Wells Fargo & Co. investors and analysts cheered the bank’s announcement of a new chief executive, but there is al... Read more

Bank Stocks Take A Beating As Inverted Yield Curve Fuels Recession Fears

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Bank stocks traded broadly, and in some cases sharply lower, as the spread between yields on 2-year and 10-year Treasury... Read more

Buffett Buys More Bank Of America Stock, With Stakes Value Rising To $29 Billion

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Bank of America Corp. is by far Warren Buffett’s favorite bank, as his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has boosted its stake i... Read more

Market Extra: I Did Not Expect Us To Be At All-time Highs By April, Says Morgan Stanleys Wilson As Stock Market Pops

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Stocks in 2019 have thus far befuddled Michael Wilson, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite breaking out above thei... Read more

Market Extra: Cyclical Stocks Are Back In Vogue As Recession Fears Fade

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Investors have all but abandoned sectors considered defensive in favor of cyclical stocks that perform better during per... Read more

Wells Fargos Stock Pulls A Sharp U-turn After Warning Of A Surprise Net Interest Income Decline

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Shares of Wells Fargo & Co. took reversed course in morning trade Friday, swinging to a sharp loss from a healthy ga... Read more

Market Snapshot: Stocks Close Mostly Lower As Earnings Season Set To Kick Off

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Stocks finish mostly lower as investors struggled to identify catalysts to drive the market ahead of the start of quarte... Read more

5 Things JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Is Worried About For America And His Bank

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The U.S. economy ‘fairly healthy,’ just not as healthy as last year and the risks of recession might be increasing, ... Read more

The Ratings Game: Wells Fargo CEO Retirement Leads Both A Long-time Bull And Bear To Change Their View

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Wells Fargo & Co.’s surprise announcement that Chief Executive Tim Sloan was leaving prompted both long-time bulls... Read more

Market Extra: Why Stock Market Investors Should Worry About A Bearish Divergence In Financials

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There’s something brewing in the financial sector that could be very worrisome to stock market investors, especially t... Read more

Big 5 Banks Had A Tough Time Trading In Volatile Markets

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When the going gets tough on Wall Street, brokers can lose money too, just like their customers. Read more

The Sniff Test: Wells Fargo Spent $7.3 Billion To Help Buy An Earnings Beat — Was It Worth It?

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The $7.3 billion Wells Fargo spent on share repurchases during the fourth quarter failed to prop up its stock price, but... Read more

In One Chart: Why No Single Stock Sector Will Make Or Break An Investor, In One Chart

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All investors know their portfolios should be diversified, with exposure to a variety of asset classes and regions so th... Read more

Need To Know: Buy U.S. Stocks As Tax And Spending Plans Are Still Unappreciated, Says BlackRock

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As the holiday-shortened week kicks off, a big question is whether our mighty mid-month rally in stocks looks like a fak... Read more

Earnings Outlook: What To Expect When Goldman Sachs And Morgan Stanley Report Earnings

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The two large former investment banks face many of the same headwinds as depositories — and many of the same tailwinds... Read more

Need To Know: Big Bank Stocks Have Plenty Of Juice Left — Heres Why

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Buying the financial sector’s stocks right now makes sense to Bob Seawright, the Madison Avenue Securities chief inves... Read more

ETF Investing: Despite Wall Street Records, ETF Investors Favor Foreign Funds

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Exchange-traded funds saw record-breaking growth in 2017, but despite the dozens of records set by the U.S. stock market... Read more