Sirius Investors Inquisitive, Ford Grooms Future and 3 Bellwethers Not to Miss

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG have been passed by JPMorgan in challenging HSBC Holdings Plc at the top of Asia’s dollar, euro and yen league table. The biggest bank asset-wise was credited with lining up $7.4B in note sales in the area outside Japan in the early half of 2012, up from $3.2B for the same time in 2011, as seen in data compiled by Bloomberg. It raised its market share to 10.6 percent in comparison with HSBC’s 15.5 percent.

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Sirius XM Radio Inc (NASDAQ:SIRI) investors are waiting on a response to the question of what motivated the big 10.9 percent uptick in share price between Monday morning’s open to Tuesday’s close at $2.04. And many are probably wondering if it will keep climbing.

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins confessed in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the company is in the midst of a trying time, but did not admit to it being in a “death spiral” as some have described it, wrote the Financial Times on Tuesday.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F): The U.S. has filed a complaint against China on new duties the country is levying on U.S.-made automobiles and trucks, according to the New York Times. Auto sales in Canada were impressive in June, prompted by strong demand for imports. Although the 2.8 percent Y/Y rise to 169,459 autos and trucks sold was not overwhelming in terms of growth, this comes in the wake of a difficult comparable from 2011 when auto manufacturers were filling the market with incentives. The Canadian unit of Ford is the primary auto retailer in the region. Ford is planned to bring up an insider to take over for Alan Mulally when he retires in coming years, with early bets on regional heads Mark Fields, Stephen Odell and Joe Hinrichs.

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) has bounced back impressively this year as company shares have improved almost 50 percent year-to-date. “They have, in our view, taken bankruptcy off the table for the next several years at least,” said Christopher King, analyst of telecom and cable services at Stifel Nicolaus. “So that’s helped buoy the stock.”

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