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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs GS for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the U.S. national debt.The editorial, published November 21, attacked Goldman...

Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities said on CNBC's Fast Money that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will increase its dividend meaningfully because they are trying to re-establish their position in the market.

He has also shared with the viewers his analysis of the impact of the reforms on the state of the banking sector. Bove concluded that administration's reforms will make banks less profitable.

Richard Bove thinks that about 30% of consumers will find out that banks don't want to do business with them because they won't be able to profit on these consumers.

The winners in this situation will be consumer finance and payday loan companies like Advance America (NYSE: AEA) and Western Union (NYSE: WU), as many consumers will have nowhere else to go. Advance America (AEA) gained 0.85% on Friday, while Western Union (WU) dropped 2.33%.

His biggest concern are the regional banks, as they will be hit hard with the reforms. Richard Bove believes they will become totally unattractive stocks. If he is right SPDR KBW Regional Banking (ETF) (NYSE: KRE) is the ETF that should be avoided in the future. KRE jumped 0.19% on Friday, despite Bove's comments.

Weston, Nov 20 (FlowTrades.com) – The majority of stocks fell for the week, with only the Dow posting a gain after surging to new highs on better than expected economic news overseas and a pledge by the APEC to maintain economic stimulus measures. The Dollar rebounded from a 15-month low against the euro, sending . Read More --

By Ellis MnyanduNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected results from computer maker Dell DELL and homebuilder D.R. Horton DHI as a further sign that the recovery would be anemic.Following the S&P 500's gain of more than 60 percent...

BloggingStocks: With the credit crunch and the implosion of CIT, the environment for small business financing has been downright hostile. Basically, many owners have given up on things and instead have focused on creative ways to boost cash flows. So in light of ... Read more

After almost a year of initiating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue the nation’s financial industry, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that it would auction off stock warrants it acquired from three big banks that received a significant portion of taxpayers’ money and have fully repaid the same. The [...]

(JPM) Treasury to Auction TARP Warrants

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In another interesting move, Meredith Whitney cuts her rating on Goldman Sachs (GS) just before earnings on Thursday. This is reminiscent of last quarter. If you remember, it was a Monday morning and markets were continuing to sell off more than 7% over the previous few weeks. Then, she announced on CNBC that Goldman was [...] Related posts:

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