Are The Indicators Revealing a “Buy” Opportunity For American International Group, Inc. (NYSE …

Are The Indicators Revealing a “Buy” Opportunity For American International Group, Inc. (NYSE …

Covering Wall Street firms have recently weighed in on American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG) shares. At the time of writing, the mean target price for the firm is $67.71. The current combined recommendation provided by covering Wall Street analysts is 2.3. This recommendation lands on a scale
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Cost of protection: Banking sector

Reports of difficulty to import essential commodities like food and medicine have taken the nation by surprise, during the past few week. Local banks have more or less stopped writing letter of credit contracts as their foreign currency account suffered a serious blow in recent years. Scores of FDI
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Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL) and Nelnet (NNI) Critical Analysis

Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ: OCSL) and Nelnet (NYSE:NNI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
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California Air Regulator to Pruitt: 'Call Me Maybe?'

California's top air-quality regulator took to Twitter Friday to engage Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt over the future of automotive pollution standards. “I agree it's important we work together 'diligently & diplomatically' to maintain one national program for #cleanercars so like,
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Schlumberger Gets Approval to Buy Into Russia's Biggest Driller

Schlumberger Ltd. won preliminary approval to finally complete a three-year-old plan to buy into Russia's biggest oil driller. Russia's special commission on foreign investment approved Schlumberger to buy a blocking stake of 25 percent to 49 percent in Eurasia Drilling Co. Ltd., subject to certain
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Bob Dylan Is Making His Own Whiskey and it's Out Next Month

Bob Dylan's got a long list of accomplishments, from numerous Grammy Awards all the way to the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now he's taking on even more by launching his own whiskey business. Bob Dylan will release a collection of three whiskeys under the
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TPG, Carlyle Lead Over $1.9 Billion Round in Baidu's Finance Arm

Read more: Baidu's Sales Outlook Beats as News and Video Draw Users. In its earnings release, Baidu said the financial services unit had assets of $7.5 billion and liabilities of $6.6 billion but added that there was no assurance of a sale. Baidu has spent the past year selling or spinning off a series of
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Why did mortgage rates just surge?

Robert McLister is a mortgage planner at intelliMortgage, and founder of RateSpy.com. Toronto-Dominion Bank has stunned rate-watchers with its larger-than-expected, late-April mortgage rate hikes. The worry now is that, with other banks following suit, this could start to undermine an already wobbly
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Turkey's Gul Says He Won't Run Against Erdogan in June Election

Turkey's former president Abdullah Gul said he won't be a candidate in snap presidential elections to be held in June, putting to rest speculation that he could harm incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan's chances. A broad-based consensus among political parties was not reached, Gul told reporters in
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Direct consumer loans, mobile users on rise, BBVA Compass says

A focus on consumer lending and an aggressive digital strategy could be paying off for BBVA Compass in Birmingham, Ala., if its first-quarter results are any indication. The $87.8 billion-asset bank reported double-digit increases in direct consumer loans and credit card lending over the past 12 months.
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MMRDA to mortgage land to fund projects

This apart, MMRDA has almost exhausted the option of raising loans from international agencies such as Japan International Cooperation Agency, Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. “These agencies directly finance the projects and one doesn't have to mortgage other assets as a collateral.
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Bill gives consumers a chance to ensure banks play ball

READ MORE: Banking with a conscience gains ground. Not to be outdone, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (owner of ASB) conceded it was the “gold medallist” at charging fees without providing any service. National Australia Bank (owner of the BNZ) revealed over half a million consumers had to be
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Laureate International Universities (LAUR) Receives “Buy” Rating from Barrington Research

Barrington Research reiterated their buy rating on shares of Laureate International Universities (NASDAQ:LAUR) in a research note published on Friday morning. Barrington Research currently has a $18.00 target price on the stock. “We believe the revenue shortfall versus our forecast was due to a
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Xerox-Fujifilm Deal Temporarily Blocked by New York Judge

Xerox Corp.'s plan to sell itself to Japanese rival Fujifilm Holding Corp. was temporarily blocked by a New York judge who determined the chief executive officer behind the deal was trying to preserve his own job. Investor Darwin Deason sued to block the transaction, accusing CEO Jeffrey Jacobson of
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Your go-to real estate doyenne in Dubai

She moved to Dubai in 1997 with a 4-month-old baby in her arms. She started working with a then leading real estate company 3 mornings in a week. Not long after, the owner of the company – a seasoned female expat and real estate leader – asked her to step in and run her business for a month as she
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Want to move to a better neighborhood? In Philly, help is on the way.

National representatives of the apartment and multi-family housing industries supported Carson, and the Pennsylvania Apartment Association East stands by their skepticism about the rule. “Nobody is convinced that using zip codes will actually provide a valid real estate market,” says Christine
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Real estate briefs from The Oklahoman for April 28, 2018

In celebration of its 500th Positive Energy Home partnership with Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. donated $25,000 toward the construction of a home for Nang Za Lian and Cin Zam Huai and their two children at 7304 Park Meadow in Habitat's Legacy Estates
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Anthony Patrick O'Brien: Should we care about US trade deficit with China?

Walmart must be better off buying the shirt from the Vietnamese supplier or it would buy from some other firm. But isn't international trade different than domestic trade because with a trade deficit dollars leave the country? If the trade deficit with China is $337 billion (as we just saw, it really isn't, but let's
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Commentary: It's not the end of The Road Home

And there are multitudes of people who are simply forced out of the housing market as the price for housing continues in an upward spiral. … The Road Home's service model in caring for Utah's homeless people at the Salt Lake Community Shelter and in its other facilities has evolved over many, many
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Agent update

Steve Calabro has expertise in waterfront property, new home construction and condominiums while also gaining experience in executive relocations, international buyers and sellers and real estate investment. He holds active real estate licenses in South Carolina and Florida, according to the West
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