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Federated Investors Inc. announced it has reached a marketing services agreement with RJ Delta Fund Management, a Buenos Aires, Argentina-based subsidiary of Raymond James .

Telephone & Data Systems announced a dividend on Wednesday, February 26th, AmericanBankingNews.com reports.

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Shares of Raymond James have received an average rating of "Buy" from the eleven brokerages that are presently covering the stock, Stock Ratings News reports .

The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday.

CenturyLink's acquisition of Qwest may be long behind it, but according to Clay Bailey, senior vice president of Operations for CenturyLink, those markets are becoming a key target to win back small to medium businesses with its 1 Gbps GPON-based service.

Equity One declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 5th, American Banking & Market News reports.

Panera Bread , which is a long time Wall Street darling, fell into some trouble during the 3rd Quarter of 2013.

In February I wrote an article on the state of the offshore drilling industry and how, although analysts had taken a negative view on the industry's outlook, Seadrill .

U.S. private employers added 139,000 jobs in February, shy of economists' expectations, and gains in the previous month were revised lower, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

Raymond James Financial Inc has hired a team of two financial advisers to its independent broker/dealer firm in Brentwood, Tennessee.

A federal judge has ruled that Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. cannot hold a Missouri town and its industrial development authority responsible for repaying bonds involved in a failed factory project.

Vernetta Eddleman has joined the Family Safety Center, Memphis and Shelby County's center for victims of domestic violence, as director of client services.

A number of firms have modified their ratings and price targets on shares of Athabasca Oil Corp recently: Athabasca Oil Corp had its price target raised by analysts at Barclays from C$6.00 to C$10.00.

U.S. stocks saw their best day since October, so what happened with Bloomin' Brands? Amid big gains by leading Tampa Bay public companies such as Walter Investment Management Corp. and Raymond James Financial Inc. , Bloomin' dipped nearly 4 percent, after disclosing that its private equity owners and key insiders planned to sell some of their ... (more)

A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on EFX. Analysts at Scotiabank reiterated a "sector perform" rating on shares of Enerflex in a research note on Monday.

All right. Good morning everybody. Thanks for attending the Delta Air Lines presentation today.

"We see a path to about 60-70 of the city being covered and that's within our return thresholds today," said Leigh Fox, CFO of Cincinnati Bell, during the Raymond James 35th Annual Institutional Investors Conference.

Conifex Timber had its price target raised by analysts at Raymond James from C$12.00 to C$13.00.

MICROS' investors and other interested parties who are not attending the respective conferences are invited to listen to the presentation via the webcast at the following webcast link: MICROS Systems, Inc. provides leading enterprise-wide applications, services and hardware for the hospitality and retail industries.