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Bullish on BCS ... BCS

62%

+120.14% in 217 days Barclays PLC engages in the provision of financial services in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia. It offers retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management, and investment management services. The company provides current accounts, deposit accounts, savings accounts, retail mortgages, installment finance, commercial lending, unsecured lending and protection products, and mortgage and general insurance, as well as investment advice, money transmission, and asset financing and leasing solutions. It also involves in credit card and consumer lending ... Continue reading »

Bullish on BCS ... BCS

62%

+120.14% in 217 days Barclays PLC engages in the provision of financial services in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia. It offers retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management, and investment management services. The company provides current accounts, deposit accounts, savings accounts, retail mortgages, installment finance, commercial lending, unsecured lending and protection products, and mortgage and general insurance, as well as investment advice, money transmission, and asset financing and leasing solutions. It also involves in credit card and consumer lending ... Continue reading »

Carbon Trading Index and Funds Crater BCS

73%

-247.00% in 256 days Carbon Trading Index and Funds Crater <> <> <> <> <> The ETF Innovators Global Carbon Trading Index tracks the performance of 20 companies (summarized in accompanying table) from a starting value of 21,687 on 1/19/09 which are involved in a variety of green business activities, including the following:  financial exchanges for carbon credits, renewable energy projects resulting in the generation of carbon credits, greenhouse gas capture, waste-to<><><><><><><><><>< />< /><><><><><><><>< />... Continue reading »

Bullish on BCS ... BCS

19%

-47.98% in 733 days Currently a beat-down value. Good dividend should hold its price up. It's unknown how much their subprime exposure is, or how the credit crunch will affect them, so there's some downside risk, but long term, it should get out of this mess ok. Continue reading »

From the Blogosphere

Lehman Brothers wants money back from Barclays

Filed under: Law, Barclays plc ADS (BCS) Late Tuesday -- on the one-year anniversary of its bankruptcy filing -- Lehman Brothers accused Barclays Capital (NYSE: BCS) of taking $8.2 billion more than it should have when it purchased some of its key assets a year ago. Less than a week after Lehman filed for bankruptcy, the court approved of the sale to Barclays. Now Lehman is asking a judge to force Barclays to return some of the money taken as part of the deal, including $5 billion it says was given as extra collateral, which was not disclosed to the court. Interesting timing and an interesti... Continue reading »

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: BBBY, DLTR, ISLE, SEAC, WHR ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: <> Barclays upgraded Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) to Overweight from Equal Weight and raised its target to $64 from $48 following the better-than-expected Q2 report. Cowen upgraded Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) to Outperform from Neutral. The firm cites stabilizing demand trends and recovering margins for the upgrade. <>Susquehanna upgraded Isle of Capri (NASDAQ: ISLE) citing weakness following the weak quarter. The firm, which has a $13 target on shares, expects regional operators to benefit fro... Continue reading »

Don't Fear The Reaper

A good thread busted out in the comments on yesterday's post. A reader asked me to weigh in on my concerns about inflation (hyper or otherwise) and the status of the dollar. Another reader asked for my take on financial stocks and REITs. So let's roll 'em up and dive in. <>The current event has been surprising to me in its magnitude. The things I relied on to be underweight financials (the sector's weighting in the SPX and the inversion of the yield curve) warn of problems they don't say anything about magnitude. Simply heeding those warnings means not having to be correct about magnitude. I on... Continue reading »

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AZN, BCS, JACK, MVL, PCLN, UA ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: <> Oppenheimer upgraded Gymboree (NASDAQ: GYMB) to Outperform from Perform following the company's Q2 results to reflect valuation and square footage growth from Crazy 8. The firm has a $52 target on the stock. KeyBanc upgraded Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) to Buy from Hold on expectations sales and margins will improve in the near-term due to clean inventory levels. The firm recommends a pair trade of long Lululemon, short Under Armour (NYSE: UA). <>Keefe Bruyette upgraded Allied Capital (N... Continue reading »

Cramer on BloggingStocks: Private deals for regional banks would be a mistake

Filed under: Market matters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Barclays plc ADS (BCS), Wells Fargo (WFC), Cramer on BloggingStocks From TheStreet.com Network UBS Posts Third Straight Quarterly Loss California Bank Failures Cost $15 Billion TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says existing players would give better deals to the taxpayers here. If the FDIC is poised to split banks to lure buyers, which is the headline from last week's papers, the buyers worth luring are not only the NewAlliances (NYSE: NAL) (Cramer's Take) and the First Niagaras (NASDAQ: FNFG) (<>Cramer's Tak... Continue reading »

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