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10 Best Stocks To Own For 2016: Deutsche Bank AG(DB)

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft provides investment, financial, and related products and services. The company?s Corporate and Investment Bank division engages in the origination, sale, structuring, and trading of bonds, equities and equity-linked products, exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, foreign exchange, money market instruments, securitized instruments, and commodities to sovereign countries and multinational organizations; and medium-sized companies and multinational corporations. It also offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, corporate finance, and transaction banking, as well as trade finance, cash management, and trust and securities services for financial institutions and other companies. The company?s Private Clients and Asset Management division provides mutual funds and alternative investment products; manages real estate and infrastructure investments and private equity funds; offers advisory and portfolio management services to insurance companies; and provides investment solutions to institutional customers, high net worth individuals, and families. This division also offers a range of banking products and services, including current accounts, deposits and loans, and investment management and pension products to private and self-employed individuals, and small to medium-sized businesses. Its Corporate Investments division?s principal investment activities comprise private equity and venture capital investments, corporate real estate investments, a minority stake in Deutsche Postbank AG, credit exposures, and other non-strategic investments. As of December 31, 2010, the company operated 3,083 branches in approximately 74 countries worldwide, including 2,087 in Germany. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  Ralph Orlowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images NEW YOR! K -- Germany's second biggest bank, Commerzbank, is expected to pay $600 million to $800 million to resolve investigations into its dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the matter said. The penalty, previously reported to be more than $500 million, includes a demand from New York's top banking regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, for more than $300 million from the bank, the sources said. Other U.S. authorities, including the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Manhattan District Attorney, are also involved in the talks. The German bank is the latest bank to enter into settlement negotiations with U.S. authorities. French lender BNP Paribas struck a record-breaking $8.9 billion deal last week to resolve investigations into violations of sanctions and related misconduct involving Sudan, Iran and Cuba. U.S. authorities are also investigating Italy's UniCredit, France's Credit Agricole and Societe Generale, and Germany's Deutsche Bank (DB) for sanctions violations, sources said. Analysts expect that Commerzbank will have to book charges of up to 300 million euros ($409 million) as a fine of $800 million would be about twice as much as the lender is estimated to have set aside for Iran. Commerzbank had 934 million euros ($1.27 billion) at the end of 2013 as provision for litigation risks, including the U.S. investigation. "An additional cost of 300 million euros would be a lot compared to Commerzbank's expected 2014 earnings," Metzler analyst Guido Hoymann said. "But breaking it down per share the market may have over reacted." Commerzbank is expected to post a pre-tax profit of 1 billion euros this year, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters Starmine. Additional litigation costs of 300 million euros translate to charges of 0.26 euros a share, while Commerzbank's shares have lost 0.77 euros since the start of the week

• [By Teresa Rivas]

  Deutsche Bank (DB) was down 4.5% at recent check, afte! r a disap! pointing second-quarter report.

  This morning, Deutsche said it earned to 334 million ($443 million), o 0.32 per share, down from 656 million in the same quarter last year.

  Revenue rose 2% to 8.22 billon from 8.02 billion.

  Analysts were looking for the company to earn 0.82 a share on revenue of 8.39 billion.

  Legal costs were the big drag in the quarter, as Deutsche is involved in investigations into the manipulation of interbank rates and the U.S. mortgage business, among other issues. The quarter included a 630 million charge for potential litigation and related costs, and Deutsche said it now has litigation reserves of 3 billion, up from 2.4 billion at the end of the first quarter.

  CFO Stefan Krause told analysts that the bank has already hit its targeted leverage ratio of 3% under European regulations put into law in June, but too many moving parts make calculating the ratio under new proposals impossible. Analysts are estimating the banks new leverage ratio is 2.3%.

  S&P Capital IQs Frank Braden maintained a Buy rating on Deutsches American depositary shares, but lowered his earnings estimates for the year. We view the lower fixed income results as a product of the operating environment and not a change in the bank’s competitive position. Capital ratio improvements are tracking ahead of our expectations as the bank reported a Basel 3 capital ratio of 10.0% during the quarter.

• [By CNBC]

  Joe Klamar, AFP/Getty Images Since Steve Jobs stepped out onto the stage to launch the world's first iPad in the second quarter of 2010, Apple's offering has been the device to beat in the tablet space. Apple (AAPL) has sold over 170 million tablets since the iPad's debut and if analyst expectations are to be believed, that number will balloon in the current quarter thanks to the release of the iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina. But while many analysts are bullish on Apple's latest offerings, the cold hard facts reveal the iPad king is los! ing marke! t share in the tablet space. New data compiled by research firm IHS show Apple's market share slipped to 29.7 percent in the third quarter from 33.5 percent in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, aggressive pricing strategies are seeing companies such as Samsung, Lenovo and Taiwan's Asus gain ground in the tablet space. As demand for smartphones tapers off, Samsung has begun to focus on the tablet market. The South Korean tech giant is now one place behind Apple with 22.2 percent of the market. Addressing analysts on its third quarter earnings call, Samsung said it plans to increase tablet shipments by 20 percent in the fourth quarter to take advantage of demand over the all-important Christmas period. Rhonda Alexander, director of tablet research at IHS, says Samsung is employing a similar strategy to the one it used to beat Apple in smartphone shipments -- offering users a range of options at a variety of prices. "The erosion in Apple's unit shipment market share was inevitable ... Cheaper almost always wins the volume race, and the competitors were quick to adjust pricing when it became clear that it was impossible to achieve anything close to Apple's unit growth at the same price level," she said. This has seen a surge in the number of tablets selling for less than $250 -- helping lift Google's (GOOG) Android to the No. 1 operating system by tablet shipments in the quarter. But the race to the bottom on

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