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  • Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac price targets cut to zero

    Oct 19th, 2009 - BusinessWeek

    Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled Monday after a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst downgraded the two to the firm's lowest rating...

  • Icahn slams CIT restructuring, offers $6B loan

    Oct 19th, 2009 - CNNMoney

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sent a scathing letter to troubled lender CIT on Monday, calling its restructuring plan "a bad-faith attempt to buy votes." Icahn...

  • Stock Picks: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Eaton, Estee Lauder

    Oct 19th, 2009 - BusinessWeek

    Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgrades to underperform from market perform; cuts price target Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Oct...

  • Volkswagen To Seek Approval Dec. 3 For Capital Hike

    Oct 16th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal

    Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE) Friday said Dec. 3 it will seek shareholder approval to issue new preferred shares worth about EUR10...

  • Citigroup Has $101 Million Profit on Higher Deposits, Loans

    Oct 15th, 2009 - Bloomberg

    Citigroup Has $101 Million Profit on Higher Deposits, LoansOct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the lender 34percent owned by the U.S. government, posted a $101 millionprofit, defying analysts’ expectations for a loss, on higherdeposit and loan volumes.

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  • Government Could Convert Citi Preferred Shares to Common - Bloomberg2:27

    Government Could Convert Citi Preferred Shares to Common - Bloomberg

    Government Would Own 20%-40% of Citi says WSJ, Citigroup: No Comment on Nationalization Speculation; Report and analysis by Margaret Popper of Bloomberg News (Starting Bell)
  • Rarely Seen: KBW Officer Being Interviewed ... 'Buy the Vulture'3:10

    Rarely Seen: KBW Officer Being Interviewed ... "Buy the Vulture"

    persons, think bank-shares, traded on popular exchanges are protected and back stopped by the Fed. Banks offer two types of shares, the preferred shares to their elite customers, and the common shares to the broader market (everyone else) ...
  • Capital structure6:43

    Capital structure

    In stories about the auto companies and the banks, we've been hearing a lot about debt-to-equity swaps, and exchanging preferred shares for common stock. To get how those swaps work, you first need to understand a company's capital structure ...
  • Banks are Blood suckers!3:15

    Banks are Blood suckers!

    stock to help alleviate the cash shortfall. Currently the government holds preferred shares in Bank of America for its investment. Preferred shares are essentially a loan that pays out a hefty dividend. By converting that investment to common stock ...
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Preferred Shares from WikiPedia:

Preferred stock, also called preferred shares or preference shares, is typically a 'higher ranking' stock than common stock, and its terms are negotiated between the corporation and the investor.

Preferred stock usually carries no voting rights, but may carry priority over common stock in the payment of dividends and upon liquidation. Preferred stock may carry a dividend that is paid out prior to any dividends being paid to common stock holders. Preferred stock may have a convertibility feature into common stock. Preferred stockholders will be paid out in assets before common stockholders and after debt holders in bankruptcy. Terms of the preferred stock are stated in a "Certificate of Designation".

Unlike common stock, preferred stock usually has several rights attached to it:

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