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June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank said it will lend banks 131.9 billion euros ($161.5 billion) for three months, less than economists forecast and a sign that the region’s financial industry may be stronger than investors estimated. Banks tomorrow need to repay 442 billion...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The European Central Bank allotted just 131.9 billion euros ($161.1 billion) in three-month loans to euro-zone banks at an interest rate of 1% on Wednesday, news reports said. The total was below expectations. The refinancing was closely watched as a gauge of the health...

June 30 (Bloomberg) -- German unemployment fell for a 12th month in June as business confidence improved, putting Germany’s export-led economic recovery on a broader footing. The number of people out of work declined a seasonally adjusted 21,000 to 3.23 million, the lowest since December...

JP Morgan small businesses not just to borrow, but also to hire. The U.S.'s second-biggest bank by assets said Tuesday it will lower the interest rate charged on a line of credit to small-business customers by half a percentage point for every new hire they make, for up to three hires. "We...

+ 1 :)

Hum, JP Morgan rated National Bank of Greece "sell" lately. With other words : strong buy. :p :cool:

The Qatar Investment Authority is in talks about taking a strategic stake in National Bank of Greece, the eurozone country’s biggest lender. People familiar with the discussions say the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund, via its unit Qatar Holding, would acquire about 5-7 per cent of...

Soros is loading up on the stock as is Paulson and Eric Mindich...

I like the most active list on CBOE....:D http://www.cboe.com/data/HHVolumeReportEquity.aspx

I see a "flash crash" in C to 3.32 before moving back in one line to 3.80...algos "reprograming" ? :D

No, this has to do with a prayer by the "chief economists" of these banks to get their predictions "right" once in their lifetime...:p

Hum, only stock sellers on ET ? :)

...what to do with a cash overhang 1 million USD ? Suggestions please. Thanks.

Exit 5950 puts, enter 6050 calls.

Too funny, FDAX 5993.00. Just shy from put options being ITM.

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- European confidence in the economic outlook unexpectedly improved in June after reviving global growth and a drop in the euro bolstered the region’s recovery. An index of executive and consumer sentiment in the 16 euro nations rose to 98.7 from 98.4 in May, the...

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG, Commerzbank AG and Bayerische Landesbank passed a stress test that evaluated how about 25 European lenders would weather an economic downturn, said three people familiar with the results. The three German lenders’ core capital ratio, a key measure of...

Hum. Sorry, can´t confirm your analysis. Actually I spoke yesterday with a COO of a large European bank and he complained about his banks lending business - both on the retail and institutional side. They have an overhang on the active side of their balance sheet of 40 %. To put things...

Expensive. Redi is rich application - accordingly slow.

We find this funny — but then, we write about finance all day, and are easily amused. The analysts at Deutsche Bank have a theory that the amount of money rolled from the European Central Bank’s 12-month Long-Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO) into its three-month one — an indication of...