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Large financial services firms are divesting their businesses and providing unique profit opportunities to certain investment management firms. This article gives the reasons and explains how investors can profit from this trend.

A visual analysis of the banks that were recently run through the stress test. Hat tip: Simoleon Sense

Several banks have learned the hard way that when you get the U.S. government’s money, even in the form of a loan, as a bonus you get the government’s “help” running your business. So what’s a company to do when they realize they’re in a bad relationship?

Thursday, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) declared a 6.5% increase in its quarterly dividend rate. JNJ is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.

The American Banking landscape is under change. As the financial crisis heated up in 2008 we saw many companies loose billions of dollars and some even...

TARP allows the United States Department of the Treasury to purchase nonliquid, difficult to value assets from banks and other financial institutions. TARP also allow the Treasury to purchase whole loans and make direct equity investments in banks themselves.

Leucadia(LUK)is another company that fits in the Berkshire Hathaway(BRKA)(BRKB) mold. Leucadia has quietly been building their own Berkshire over the last 30 years.

Stock picks from Jean-Marie Eveillard, Robert Rodriguez, Wally Weitz, David Winters, Bill Freiss, and Tom Marisco.

Hank Paulson wants to spend $700 billion to buy up banks bad debt in the hope it can ‘fix’ the crisis on Wall Street. But there are ways to profit from the madness. Martin Hutchinson has picked three winners.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), the two last major investment banks left standing after the carnage Wall Street, have ended the era of investment banking by changing their status to bank holding companies. The change means the two firms can now create commercial banks that will be able to take deposits.

In a move that transforms the two remaining major investment banks on Wall Street, federal regulators on Sunday night changed the status of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to bank holding companies.

The New York Times has an interactive graphic that visually conveys the impact the current market crisis has had on the financial sector. It has market cap scaled regions for two time periods, September 12, 2008 and October 9, 2007. It would be interesting to have a similar chart by a value metric, such as book value.

Now that's a major market headline. Fear strikes Wall Street as several significant events hit the financial sector.

The SEC has it backwards

The SEC has it backwards