| | As spreads narrow, CIT stays cautiously optimistic
Tighter unsecured debt spreads and the possibility of improvement in market conditions bode well for CIT Group Inc. Though the commercial finance company's cost of funds remain higher than some of its peers and business in most segments cannot be called ...more
SNL Financial (9/11/2003)
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| | Specialty finance ops may still stymie Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley disappointed investors with second-quarter earnings that fell short of each of five prior quarters' profits. ...more
SNL Financial (8/7/2003)
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| | Another one bites the dust
Just when things were looking up in the manufactured housing finance market after years of misery, another lender has called it quits. ...more
SNL Financial (8/7/2003)
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| | Red-hot card sector cooled by Cap One concerns
SNL Financial (7/21/2003)
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| | Over-taxed and under-appreciated
Maybe first impressions should not matter ...more
SNL Financial (5/5/2003)
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| | Analysts see mixed signals in CIT's first-quarter results
Some fixed-income analysts were encouraged by the improvement in asset quality at CIT Group Inc. during the first quarter. ...more
SNL Financial (5/1/2003)
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| | A good-bye, good riddance, and a fond farewell
Among the industry's largest consumer lenders, there were two changing of the guards last week ...more
SNL Financial (4/28/2003)
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| | One step forward, one step back
Strong performances by financial services subsidiaries have boosted results of three industrial conglomerates during the first week ...more
SNL Financial (4/17/2003)
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| | A first look at first-quarter earnings
The financial services industry begins its parade of earnings reports this week with a hodge-podge ...more
SNL Financial (4/14/2003)
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| | Clayton Homes acquired by big company, even bigger name
Knoxville, TN-based home manufacturer and financier Clayton Homes Inc. has become Warren Buffet's latest object of desire ...more
SNL Financial (4/3/2003)
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| | Long days ahead for aircraft lessors
Just when aircraft lessors thought an already-depressed market could not get any worse ...more
SNL Financial (4/2/2003)
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| | Fixed-income propels big broker/dealers, but war clouds the future
Dramatic increases in fixed-income related revenues at three premier investment banks took analysts by surprise ...more
SNL Financial (3/21/2003)
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| | IPO woes could pressure brokerage results
Large investment banks learned in 2002 that they no longer could rely on a robust initial-public-offering market to supplement quarterly profits ...more
SNL Financial (3/19/2003)
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| | Too few jobs, too few auto sales
Two economic reports delivered on March 7 bruised automobile finance stocks and warned investors of potential future servicing difficulties ...more
SNL Financial (3/18/2003)
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| | Turbulent CIT Investor Day centers on aircraft leasing
There were plenty of topics CIT Group Inc. management wanted to cover at the company's March 5 Investor Day ...more
SNL Financial (3/6/2003)
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| | Bickering Conseco bondholders battle in bankruptcy court over big servicing bill
From company employees to stakeholders, vendors and agents, no one is pleased about the fate of Conseco Inc., which filed ...more
SNL Financial (3/5/2003)
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