Raymond James's Marchon Discusses BAC Earnings (Audio) + MORE

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This week has felt like a rollercoaster for investors. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by more than 260 points. It recovered about 150 of those on Tuesday, only to give almost 140 back right back yesterday. And today the market’s down yet again. As of 2:45 p…

I remain quite positive on BB&T shares, though I am more bullish than most sell-side analysts.    

April 18 (Bloomberg) — Daniel Marchon, analyst at Raymond
James & Associates Financial Inc., discusses Bank of America
Corp. first quarter earnings. Marchon talks with Bloomberg’s
Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Radio’s “Taking Stock.”

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The U.S. housing market has been booming in the last year or so. Nationwide, home prices are up about 9% in the past 12 months, homebuilders like PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM), Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) and D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) have trounced the market and foreclosure filings in Q1 are the lowest since 2007…

By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round segment of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Program, Wednesday April 17. Bullish Calls:
Travelers (TRV): “I would buy more. The CEO of Travelers (Jay S. Fishman) is the best there is. It is going to $100.”
AIG (AIG): “They are going to keep bringing out value…

Gold is supposed to act as a safe haven from crisis and a hedge against inflation. But lately, it hasn’t been either.
You would think with the bombastic manchild leader in North Korea threatening nuclear Armageddon and the usual problems in the Middle East, investors would flock to gold.
But gold fell 10% in two days…

My colleague Amy Calistri loves stocks that grow their dividends quickly.
One need only look at her track record to see why. Last month, her portfolio of Fast Dividend Growers in her Daily Paycheck newsletter posted average total returns of 55% while yielding 4.8%.
Amy will tell you that dividend growth is more important than a stock's initial yield for long-term investing…

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