AIG: Financial Winners & Losers
NEW YORK (
) -- Financial stocks rallied at the start of the quiet holiday week, buoyed by
AIG
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.
The
Financial Select Sector SPDR
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was most recently rising 0.6% to $15.97.
Shares of AIG hit a new 52-week-high of $59.22 after the insurer said it had secured
, arranged by 36 banks including
JPMorgan Chase
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,
Citigroup
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and
Bank of America
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.
The facilities will be made available after AIG pays back the U.S. Treasury Department and
Federal Reserve
. The government plans on selling part of its stake in AIG during the first quarter of 2011.
AIG's stock was most recently up 8.5% to $58.95.
Other financial stocks moving higher on Monday included Bank of America, which rose 1.7%, to $13.29.
Visa
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shares were also gaining ground, up 2.2% to $70.21.
On the other hand, shares of
were falling roughly 7% to $11.80 at last check, after the tax preparer said that
HSBC
(HBC)
had been ordered by the OCC to cancel its contract with regards to providing refund anticipation loans to H&R Block customers.
The loans are a very popular product offered by H&R Block, which now must scramble to find replacement funding as the busy tax season gets underway.
HSBC shares were falling 1.1% to $50.92.
--Written by Laurie Kulikowski in New York.
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