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The Motley Fool
August 12, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Good News for Consumers, Bad News for Banks Consumer credit surged from 2004 to 2008. It made a lot of people artificially rich. Now that bubble is quickly deflating -- in some cases, faster than it inflated.   |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Here's Why You Shouldn't Wait You can get priced out of a stock -- or at least miss out on gains -- if you wait too long. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Global Payments Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of payment processor Global Payments slipped more than 10% in intraday trading as investors digested worse-than-expected earnings. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Home Depot Drinks the Recovery Kool-Aid Home Depot calls a bottom, but let's just say that might be wishful thinking. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Net 1 UEPS The South African smart-card purveyor is set to report its fourth-quarter and fiscal 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
AmEx Withdraws Cash From MasterCard American Express wins a settlement with MasterCard for as much as $1.8 billion, in one of the largest antitrust suits ever. |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Still Going Strong at MasterCard Shares of credit card runner-up MasterCard surged after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings fueled by stellar growth. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Housing's Bottom Isn't Showing Yet While builders' shares have improved, the housing news remains weak. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2010
April Taylor |
2 Stocks That May Spring a Leak Visa and MasterCard have benefited mightily from consumers' shift from paper to plastic, garnering fees on each transaction. Will these companies' moats survive 2011? |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2010
Eichenbaum & Collins |
Smartphones May Soon Replace Credit Cards AT&T and Verizon Wireless are readying a mobile payment system that could render plastic obsolete. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2010
Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for Visa After spending more than a year locked at a mediocre three-star rank, Visa has impressed enough top-performing members of the 165,000-strong Motley Fool CAPS community to climb up to four stars. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
John Keeling |
MasterCard Results Are Mixed. Now What? MasterCard had a mixed bag of earnings news, so is now a time to invest? |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Buffett Says It's Over Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett called the end of the U.S. recession, saying the economy has "sort of plateaued at the bottom." The day before, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession "was very likely over." How should investors position themselves? |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
This Is All You've Got, Visa? As consumers pull back, Visa's growth goes up in smoke. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2008
Stephen Savage |
Anatomy of a Recovery Let's look at performance history to analyze how past market downturns have played out and, more specifically, the ultimate impacts of different levels of decline. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Are Your Stocks Ready for the Next Crash? Things are starting to look eerily familiar. Last Thursday's huge drop in the stock market brought back memories from uglier times. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Still Signs of Life at Visa Credit card king Visa reported fourth-quarter earnings yesterday that met analyst expectations, more or less. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2008
Morgan Housel |
No Love for MasterCard Even though MasterCard's second-quarter earnings were actually quite good, investors couldn't look past the one-time, $1.65 billion pre-tax legal expense that nicked results. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Confidence ... or Con Game? When you think about it, trying to gain someone's confidence in order to grift them out of their hard-earned dollars really isn't an outlandish metaphor for our current situation. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Sham Gad |
Value Investors Only Care About Bear Markets How you perform in bear markets is what counts. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2008
Bill Mann & Tim Hanson |
We've Got Your Back, Bernanke There are several irresponsible assumptions in the recent criticism of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Ben Bernanke Get Another Term? He became chairman of the Federal Reserve right as we hurtled into financial meltdown. Does Bernanke deserve to keep the job? |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Bruce W. Fraser |
Are Small Caps' Outsized Gains Over? Momentum seems to favor small-cap stocks over their large-cap counterparts. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2010
David Meier |
MasterCard: Deflation Fighter Cash-rich companies with very little debt burden seem like a great place to start looking for ideas during deflationary periods, and right now, MasterCard looks like a deflation fighter. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
MasterCard Dazzles MasterCard reports an absolute blowout quarter in the midst of a miserable economy. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Ho Ho No for Visa and MasterCard Another victim of consumers' gloomy mood will be credit card processors Visa and MasterCard. Not only will they be stung by the inevitable drop-off in consumer spending, but what little spending is left might go to a relic form of payment that some may have forgotten even exists ... cash! |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Are Visa and MasterCard Really Under Attack? I wouldn't bet on it. These moats are still safe. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Visa Worth the Price? It's a phenomenal company, but its new stock is expensive. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2010
Morgan Housel |
An Ominous Sign for Recovery? Many people are wondering what yesterday's miserable consumer confidence report says about the future. As consumer confidence tanks, the thinking goes, so do our chances of an economic recovery. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Allan S Roth |
Bear Markets Compared Let's compare and contrast the last two bear markets: the current one and the bear of 2000 to 2002. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Visa Powers Ahead ... But Is It Cheap? Visa is doing fantastic, no doubt about it. But how much longer can cash-strapped consumers keep charging up their credit cards, and is Visa a good investment today? |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2010
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Visa and Mastercard Downgrade? At Wall Street investment house Sanford Bernstein the analysts just downgraded Visa and MasterCard on fears that more government meddling in the markets will crimp profits in the banking sector. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Throwdown: Visa vs. MasterCard Both Visa and MasterCard have one thing in common that's few and far between these days: they're both great stocks with fantastic future prospects. but which one is the better investment? |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2008
David Lee Smith |
This Builder Could Lead Housing's Recovery When housing awakens, Toll might be sounding the bell. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2011
John Spence |
Gold ETF Surges 2% to End Week as Bernanke Speaks The yellow metal continues its rally as economic uncertainty persists. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Will Take Your Shares to Zero Ben Bernanke speaks out about the "moral hazard" dilemma of giving firms the perception of being "too big to fail." |
Financial Advisor
October 2005
Raymond Fazzi |
Small Caps Look To Extend Streak Performing like Wall Street's version of The Little Engine That Could, small-cap equities are in a neck-and-neck race to outperform the large-cap sector for the sixth straight year. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
Navjot Kaur |
No Slowing Down for MasterCard MasterCard posts a good third quarter |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Another Credit Squeeze? If you're invested in any credit card lenders, or are considering doing so, dig into exactly how they make their money. I suspect that you'll find a few shocking but pleasant surprises. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Better Investment: Visa or MasterCard? Visa and MasterCard both reported full-year 2009 results last week. So let's weigh 'em in, unpack the numbers, and declare a winner. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
These Are Stocks You Need to Own Small-caps outdid their large-cap brethren in the second quarter. |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 29, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Wachovia to be Acquired by Citi Wachovia will be acquired by New York-based Citigroup in a deal facilitated by the FDIC. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2011
Sean Williams |
MasterCard Rings Up Another Outstanding Quarter New clients, an international boom, and deflation all put big profits on the plastic purveyor's plate. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes? |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2009
Tim Hanson |
The Cheapest Stocks in the World When put in the context of other high-profile global markets, U.S. stocks are not cheap. In fact, they look quite expensive. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Credit Card Issuers Beware: The End Is Nigh! Whether Visa or the telecom consortium reaches the finish line first, or someone else bypasses the whole field out of the blue, the time for phone-based payments is coming soon |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Cut Your Winners To see why taking profits on a winning stock isn't generally the right thing to do during a bear market, consider what it takes for a company to do well in a tough economy. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2009 |
Roundtable: The Stock to Sell Now Our analysts pick one stock each. |
