Target to weigh sale of credit-card assets
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ATLANTA/LOS ANGELES  - Retailer Target Corp , which has been under pressure from activist investor Bill Ackman to boost its stock price, said on Wednesday it was considering selling $7 billion in credit-card assets and would evaluate its pace of share repurchases.
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LaBranche & Co. Inc. , which runs one of the largest specialist trading operations on the New York Stock Exchange floor, may consider selling all or part of itself, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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The Target Corporation said today its quarterly profit rose almost 18 percent, helped by its credit card business and strong sales at established stores.
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The California department store operator might look interesting to acquirers.
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Target Corp.  reported higher quarterly profit on Tuesday, beating estimates on strong holiday season sales and growth in its credit card business, but the stock fell amid a broad market sell-off.
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Target Corp.'s  sales will  nearly double to $95 billion by 2010, but it may need to look  beyond its traditional big-city base and possibly overseas to  sustain growth, consultants Retail Forward said.
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Eddie Lampert is looking for Target-type valuations in the merger of Kmart and Sears.
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Citigroup  is considering selling  Nikko Cordial Corp's (8603.T) principal finance arm if it  acquires the scandal-hit Japanese brokerage group, the Nikkei  business daily said on Sunday.
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Target Corp  said on Wednesday that the review of its credit card business is taking longer than expected, partly due to current market conditions.
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New York-based credit card and travel services company American Express is expected to sell its private banking business within weeks, said a source familiar with the matter.
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Chase credit cards will soon offer better terms.
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U.S. and European banks including Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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The U.S. House Financial Services Committee plans a March 22 hearing on whether to close the federal banking loophole that allows retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. to operate banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Financial services giant American Express Co. said yesterday it will spin off its financial advisory business so it can focus on the faster-growing charge and credit card, payments processing, and travel businesses. Its shares rose more than 6 percent.
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Congress' watchdog should  investigate how financial products are sold on military bases,  two senators urged on Wednesday, after reports some insurers  and mutual fund companies target soldiers with pricey,  questionable products.
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Target Corp.  reported higher quarterly profit on Tuesday, beating estimates on strong holiday season sales and growth in its credit card business, though the stock fell more than 3 percent amid a broad market sell-off.
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The House Financial Services Committee plans a March 22 hearing on whether to close the federal banking loophole that allows retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. to operate banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.