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Fintech Focus For June 29, 2021
Monday, June 28, 2021 - 5:51pm | 1864Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” Source: John D. Rockefeller One Big Thing In Fintech: Randal Quarles, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, is out with a new speech on digital money and the main gist is that he...
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Fintech Focus For February 26, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 7:35pm | 1724Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “The time to settlement equals counterparty risk, which can become elevated during market shocks. It can also lead to the need for higher margin requirements, which are critical to protecting the financial system and investors against a firm default.” “We...
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Fintech Focus For November 24, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 7:34pm | 1900Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. Source: Gurbaksh Chahal One Big Thing In Fintech: Super Bowl LV, taking place in Tampa Bay in February, will offer 100% digital payment acceptance for fans throughout the stadium on...
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Fintech Focus For July 22, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 7:57am | 2044Read More...Daily Perspective: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: DARPA-backed blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace today unveiled “predictive capabilities” for its crypto tracing software—a move designed to better...
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#PreMarket Primer: Tuesday, February 11: All Eyes On Janet Yellen
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 8:04am | 879Read More...On Monday, investors as a whole didn’t want to make any big moves in anticipation of Fed Chief Janet Yellen’s testimony. Monday, the Dow was up seven points, basically flat, to finish the day at 15,801.79 The S&P was up 0.2 percent to 1,799.84 and the NASDAQ was up about 0.5 percent to...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 10: AIG, Cisco, Deere, PepsiCo And More
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 990Read More...The earnings season is winding down. Most of the S&P 500 have reported fourth-quarter results, and the good news is that earnings beats have outnumbered earnings misses. Here is a quick rundown of what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent quarterly reports. America Movil...
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Tom Nix Survived Riots, Death Threats And Built A $45 Million Empire
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 3:18pm | 631Read More...The fiercest competitors aren't always the ones who threaten a firm's bottom line. Tom Nix, the founder of Navicert Financial, learned that the hard way. Navicert's primary subsidiary was Nix Check Cashing, the largest check cashing chain in Southern California. When the company began to expand (...
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MasterCard Earnings Preview: Strong Second-Quarter Results Expected (MA)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 1:15pm | 731Read More...MasterCard (NYSE: MA), which announced the retirement of its chief marketing officer last week, is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2013 results Wednesday, July 31, before the markets open. Net income and revenue have risen for three straight quarters, and investors will be looking for that...
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Barron's Recap: The Bull Has Room to Run
Sunday, May 12, 2013 - 2:30pm | 848Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the record Dow and the prospects for actively managed ETFs, the buyout of Dell, and Western Union and Uni-Pixel. Cover Story "We Were Right!" by Gene Epstein. In this special report, Barron's "jubilantly joins the hoopla" over the Dow reaching...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 29
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1146Read More...First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...
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Barron's Recap (3/30/13): Michael Dell's Folly
Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 2:17pm | 874Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the drama over a buyout for Dell, beneficial share buybacks, outraged Russian investors, and the prospects for Eaton, STMicroelectronics and Ruby Tuesday. Cover Story "Michael Dell's Folly" by Andrew Bary. Now that Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and activist...
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Barron's Recap (12/15/12): Outlook for 2013
Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 2:47pm | 854Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the outlook for 2013 and the prospects for Johnson & Johnson, Hudson Bay, Tronox and South Korea. Cover Story "Outlook 2013" by Vito J. Racanelli. Ten strategists recently polled by Barron's expect more gains ahead next year. Even if no fiscal cliff deal is...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 6
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 6:39pm | 1330Read More...There will be plenty more quarterly reports this week for analysts and traders to peruse. On the schedule are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Visa (NYSE: V), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:...
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MasterCard and Visa to Open Near 52-Week Highs
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 7:55am | 339Read More...Ending a strong week in the stock market, business services providers Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) reached new 52-week highs of $384.99 and $98.60 per share, respectively, in Friday's trading session. MasterCard recently announced an alliance with Western Union (NYSE: WU) to make...
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IBM, Mastercard, Nike and Four Other Stocks Worth a Look Now
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8:05am | 914Read More...The following dividend-paying companies offer attractive returns on equity and are expected to have strong earnings per share growth over the next five years. Their stocks are also trading in the ballpark of their 52-week highs. Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL): The New York-based cosmetics company...
