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Lloyd's Balance Sheet Getting Stronger
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<> When LloydsTSB ( LYG ) agreed to a merger with HBOS last September in a government led rescue, it was well documented that the combined entity with significant overlap in branch coverage would sooner or later cut costs and close branches. However, most commentators agreed the enlarged Lloyds Group would be inviting a PR disaster if it cut jobs just after tax-payer bail-out. The bank would wait until it had a firm mechanism in place to repay the government cash.
That day has come. On the 8th June, Lloyds Group progressed from being a rescued bank, obliged in difficult times to ...
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BNY Mellon Completes Acquisitions – Analyst Blog
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Yesterday, the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BK) completed two acquisitions - Insight Investment Management Limited and Pinnacle Arbitrage Compliance.
It acquired Insight Investment Management Limited from Lloyds Banking Group plc (LYG) Insight Investment specializes in Liability Driven Investment (LDI) solutions, active Fixed Income and Absolute Return and is based in London. Its clients include some of the UK's largest pension schemes, corporations, insurance companies and local authorities, along with a growing number of non-UK clients and some of the best known financial service...
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Before the bell: Futures point to a sharply lower start
Notable Analyst Rating Changes 10/16: GOOG, LYG, KR, HOG, NTRI, AUDC upgrade; NOK, KMP, WSM, SHAW, NFLX Downgrade
UPGRADES:Benchmark upgrades Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) from Hold to Buy. Click Here for more color.Deutsche Bank upgrades Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE: LYG) to a Buy. For more color Click HereBB&T Capital upgrades Kroger (NYSE: KR) from Hold to Buy. Price target $30. An analyst at RBC Capital has upgraded shares of Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) to Outperform. Janney Montgomery Scott upgrades NutriSystem (Nasdaq: NTRI) from Neutral to Buy, price target increased from $16 to $24. Click Here for more color.BofA Merrill Lynch upgrades AudioCodes (Nasdaq: AUDC) two-notches from Underperform to Buy. Th...
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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AA, CI, DIS, GPS, NFLX ...
Future Remains Brighter for Banco Santander than Many of Its Competitors
<>A couple of years ago, earnings growth-obsessed investors and banking analysts treated Banco Santander (STD) almost as an after-thought. For every mention of Banco Santander in the UK investment press, there were 10 articles on each of the other big banks; Barclays (BCS), RBOS, LloydsTSB (LYG), HBOS (HBOOY.PK) and HSBC (HBC). Santander just wasn’t very exciting. Plus, the London investment community, deeply in love with its own Anglo Saxon model of capitalism, was ever so slightly amused at the thought that our European cousins in the Mediterranean might articulate banking management skills< />< />...
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If on Monday investors were ready to bounce back from Friday's selloff, today stock futures are sharply lower, indicating U.S. stock markets are poised to slump at the open ahead of the Federal Reserve two-day policy meeting that begins today. Another rate hike from Australia, poor results from UBS and weak European markets weigh on sentiment.
