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Monday, February 8 2010 | 05:15 PM EDT |

DJIA (DIA) S&P 500 (SPY)

Monday Wrap: Nerves Over Financials

Closing Updates (Market Currents)

More on: Financials, Commodities, Options, Today's Market

Dividend Investing Ideas

John Thain's Back, And CIT Has Him

Former Merrill Lynch chief John Thain is back in the spotlight. He's been tapped to be chairman and CEO of CIT Group , effective immediately. (Press release)

Due Diligence: The Ranks of Banks

More on: Financial stocks, Investment Banks, Major & Intl. Banks

The Future of Plastic

USA Today: More consumers just say no to credit cards

Largecaps and Covered Calls Are Key to Outperformance in 2010

"Riskier, smaller companies with higher P/E’s and lower dividends outperformed last year, keeping the larger, higher dividend yielding companies at fairly attractive current prices," says wealth manager Tyler Vernon of Biltmore Capital Management.

Aside from overweighting largecaps, Vernon's firm writes covered calls for yield, as he believes the market will be range-bound for some time. He also hedges equity positions with puts and uses structured notes rather heavily. Here's why »

Super Bowl Stories, Market Edition

Market Week: Looking Forward

Hank Paulson, China Trade, And Common Sense

More Book reviews

Commodities in Focus

More on: Materials/Industrials, Commodities

AAA: Now There Are Four...

In the wake of the Berkshire Hathaway downgrade yesterday, consider this: Only four U.S. non-financial firms now are rated AAA: ADP, JNJ, MSFT, XOM.

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Market Currents|Top Stories

5:11 PM Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPDI): Q4 EPS of $0.16 misses by $0.07. Revenue of $357M (-2%) vs. $314M. Shares -0.6% AH. (PR) Comment!
5:09 PM Tw Telecom (TWTC): Q4 EPS of $0.07 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $308M (+5%) in-line. (PR) Comment!
5:01 PM Apollo Investment (AINV): FQ3 EPS of $0.48 beats by $0.17. Total investment income of $85.6M. Shares -0.8% AH. (PR) Comment!

All today's Market Currents »

Select StockTalks

Joshua Hayes: Today was 1 of the weakest days in my long scans in a long time. It is looking very thin out there. The few longs working are not that nice.

14 minutes ago
David White: CNBC: talking about IPO's in China, but last I heard China put a temp. hold on new IPO's as part of tightening policy.

33 minutes ago
Graham and Dodd Investor: Dear David White: "Best" in this context does NOT mean "good." But "it's all relative."

37 minutes ago