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GameStop levels up, JP Morgan Chase reports more fees, bond ETF hits new high

Time for a hump day edition of Trending Ticker s- the stock's you're watching as measured by your Yahoo Finance Twitter searches. First up --

iShares 20+ Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)  is hittihg all-time highs today. It's a flight to safety world, friends. After retail sales results came in soft this morning the rate on U.S. 10-year notes fell below 1.8% driving up the price of the TLT and other bond-related offerings. We haven't seen 10-year notes yielding this little since 2012, the heart of the "QE forever" hand-wringing. Now that the Fed is supposed to be easing off the gas rates should be moving higher. As a reminder: there's what "should" happen and reality. If the two happen to coincide consider yourself lucky.

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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is down by more than 4%. The mega-bank reported a 6.6% drop in fourth quarter profit, hit by a $1.1 billion tab for legal expenses. CEO Jamie Dimon said the bills are evidence that "banks are under assault" by government cops. "We have five or six regulators coming at us on every issue" the silver fox moped. That's one way of looking at it. An alternative view would be that JPMorgan and the financial industry are paying a skim to financial cops on the beat who, in turn, allow the banks to keep breaking the law. Is that making us safer from a systemic meltdown? Well, equity market revenue was $1.1 billion, up 25% "primarily on higher derivatives" according to the bank. Judge for yourself what that implies.

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GameStop (GME) is up a vooming 12%. The video game retailer said software sales rose a booming 5% over the holidays. Most analysts had expected a drop based on an increase in downloads. Overall GameStop expects fourth quarter same store sales to drop 1 to 2.5%, substantially better than prior guidance. When expectations were as low as they were for this company "OK" is tantamount to awesome.

Those are you Trending tickers today. Let us know what stocks you're tracking on Twitter using the hashtag Trending Tickers.

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