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Argos
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. . . that it may cut 17 global financial institutions, 114 European financial institutions:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/1....
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Quote:
* Rating agency puts 114 European institutions on watch

* Includes, BofA, Goldman, Citi, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley.

* Barclays, BNP, Deutsche, HSBC, SocGen also included
Cool.
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Rally time.

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Why did they wait until now to cut it? Should have been done a long time ago.

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Paging Dick Bove, is there a Dick in the house?

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Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Citigroup are apparently facing rating cuts to Baa2 by mid-May:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/t....

(I'm short MS.)

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moody must need some more cash to run,will be a bought off ?

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Generational buybuybuy!

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Would you give your money to these banks? http://bankimplode.com/list/troubledbank....

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Doesn't the Buffet Buzzard own Moodys?

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Obseedian, you must have awaken the monster! :) Bove was on BBTV the other day, stating that we should be buying MS "aggressively."

Here's the Moody's downgrade timetable, via Zero Hedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-downg....
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Goldman CFO Viniar comments during the conference call on the threat of a Moody's downgrade:

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/17/go....

Partial quote:

Quote:
But Moody’s isn’t alone in having its math questioned by Viniar Tuesday. Viniar also seemed perplexed by the Federal Reserve’s arithmetic.


Too funny.

Hey, Viniar, don't bite the hand that feeds you:

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With the downgrades around the corner, it may be worth noting some modest underperformance from C (Citigroup) today.

(No position.)
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Goldman Sachs May Owe $2.21 Billion If Rating Falls Two Levels:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-10....

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It's been a slow train coming, but rumor has it that tonight's the night for US- and UK-bank downgrades:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/uk-banks-d....

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