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BloggingStocks: Analyst upgrades: Janney Montgomery upgraded Adobe (ADBE) to buy from neutral on expectations for a strong CS5 product cycle in 2010. The firm raised its target on shares to $43 from $33. Kaufman Bros. upgraded Rackspace (RAX) to buy from ... Read more

It looks like Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS)  drew the short straw in the UK government’s latest shakeup of the UK banking sector. As DealBook reported, RBS agreed to sell its insurance business and some bank branches in England, Wales and Scotland to meet European competition rules on accepting state aid. The bank, which is [...]

“Go west, young man, go west!” Written by Indiana journalist John Soule in 1851 and popularized by New York Tribune founder Horace Greeley the same year, that now-famous saying advised people to take advantage of the rapid growth in the United States as the country expanded westward across the North American continent. If those ...

var fbShare = {url: 'http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2009/11/04/societe-generale-third-quarter-net-doubles-on-investment-bank/',size:'large'}France’s second largest bank Societe Generale SA (SOGN.PA) says net profit more than doubled in the third quarter after its investment banking unit returned to profit. Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX) and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), SocGen’s investment banking results powered the profit line although debt provisions rose to cover an expected [...]

Stacy Summary:  And I am sure Germany, China and Denmark will become superpowers for having the foresight or ability to replace the century old technologies on which we have been running our infrastructure.  If RBS ‘may’ need more cash, they will need more cash.  Think that £282 billion taxpayer funded ‘risky asset’ scheme will get [...]

Companies featured in this segment: Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS), Lloyds (NYSE:LYG), Total SA (NYSE:TOT), BAE Systems plc (OTC:BAESY), Areva SA (EPA:CEI), Larsen & Toubro Limited (BSE:500510), Schneider Electric SA (EPA:SU), Tata Power Company Limited (BSE:500400), Neste Oil Oyj (OMX:NES1V), Bharat Electronics Limited (BSE:500049), Walchandnagar Industries Limited (BSE:507410)

Companies featured in this segment: Petrobras (NYSE:PBR), Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG), Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (BSE:500109), Jacobs Engineering Group Incorporated (NYSE:JEC), The ABB Group (NYSE:ABB), International Coal Ventures Limited, Steel Authority of India Limited (BSE:500113), NMDC Limited (BSE:526371), NTPC Limited (BSE:532555), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB), Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (NYSE:RBS), UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), JSW Steel Limited (BSE:500228), and National Aluminium Company Limited (BSE:532234).

Companies featured in this segment: Global Partners LP (NYSE:GLP), Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ), Siemens Energy, Siemens AG (NYSE:SI), Tessenderlo Chemie NV (EBR:TESB), International Power plc (OTC:IPRPY), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (NYSE:BBV), Fortis NV (EBR:FORB), ING Groep NV (NYSE:ING), KBC Groep NV (EBR:KBC), Lloyds Banking Group plc (LSE:LLOY), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (NYSE:RBS), Neenah Paper Incorporated (NYSE:NP), Petrobras Energia (NYSE:PZE), and Sasol's (NYSE:SSL).

Schaeffer's analyst Elizabeth Harrow takes a look at the major news of the day on Wall Street.