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...up incentive programs to encourage consumers to sign for purchases. A survey of the nation's top 250 banks by the Jefferies & Co. investment bank in New York found 20 percent have imposed fees or rewards to discourage PIN use. More than two-thirds...
...had two major worries: short-term interest rates and earnings,'' said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. ''This week, we put interest rates behind us a bit so that we could focus on earnings.'' Corporate earnings...
...those businesses that produce things in dollars and sell them in euros," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. The bigger issue for investors is earnings, which remain uncertain in a moderating U.S. economy with oil prices...
...Fed's statement was the last thing investors wanted to hear, according to Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies Co. "You can't really look at the Fed meeting in a vacuum. There are a lot of other things negatively impacting the...
...exasperated. "Any more weeks like this, and we'll be out of business," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst for Jefferies & Co. Desperately searching for a bottom for the Nasdaq composite index since September, Wall Street hopes high-tech...
...resolved. "It depends on whether or not the generators end up signing long term contracts and whether the (large) margins they were able to achieve in 2000 are sustainable," said Paul Fremont, electric utility analyst for Jefferies & Co.
...year, you don't have the bottom until everyone throws in the towel," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analysts at Jefferies & Co. "You need to have everyone be bearish." The notion that investors' foul mood bodes well for the market might...
...the blue. I think we have had ... years to work on our exposure," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. "This is not a new development, it is just coming to a head, and so, the (world) markets are able to look past...
...Absolutely not.'' That was the opinion of David Eisner, a Wall Street veteran who spent the last five years at Jefferies & Co., a Los Angeles-based investment firm. ''Chatrooms are disorienting,'' he said in an interview. ''There...
...shares, predict a loss of at least $10, or more than 40 percent. On Thursday, for example, the investment firm Jefferies & Co. issued a report in which analyst Frederick W. Moran cut his rating on Yahoo from "buy" to "hold." Yet at the...