Best European Stocks To Watch Right Now

LONDON -- Stock index futures at 7 a.m. EDT indicate that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) may start this week of trading up 100 points, or 0.66%, while the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC  ) may open 0.73% higher this morning. CNN's Fear & Greed Index has fallen to 75 from Friday's close of 80 and is now down 16 points from last week's high of 91.

European markets moved sharply higher this morning as British and American investors returned from the holiday weekend. In London, the FTSE 100 was up 1.6%, with all but eight companies in the index showing gains. Similar rises were seen in the main stock markets of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, while Japan's Nikkei and China's Shanghai Composite indexes both closed up by 1.2%, reversing some of last week's losses.

Best European Stocks To Watch Right Now: Pacific Capital Bancorp(PCBC)

Pacific Capital Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, National Association, N.A. that provides various commercial and consumer banking services to households, professionals, and businesses. It offers depository services, such as checking accounts, interest-bearing checking or NOW accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, savings deposits, and certificates of deposit. The company provides loan products, including commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, lines of credit, letters of credit, asset based lending, construction loans, and land acquisition and development loans to small business and middle market commercial clients; residential real estate loans, home equity lines and loans, and consumer loans to individual clients; and small business administration loans for working capital, business acquisitions, acquisition of real estate, growth capital, and equipment financing. It also offers safe deposit boxes, travelers? checks, money orders, foreign exchange services, and cashiers? checks, as well as provides trust and investment advisory services; investment reviews, analysis, and customized portfolio management for separately managed accounts; full service brokerage; trust and fiduciary services; equity and fixed income management; and real estate and specialty asset management. As of December 19, 2011, the company operated 47 retail branches in the central coast of California. It also operates loan production centers, automated teller machines, and customer contact call centers, as well as offers services through online banking. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

Best European Stocks To Watch Right Now: Standard Chart Bank(STAN.L)

Standard Chartered PLC provides consumer and wholesale banking products and services worldwide. It offers consumer banking products and services, including savings and accounts, loans, mortgages, credit cards, investment advisory, foreign exchange trading, currency deposits, mutual funds, and employee banking, as well as life, savings and retirement planning, health and medical, home, motor, and travel insurance. The company also provides wholesale banking services, such as transaction banking, including cash management, trade finance, and securities services; financial market solutions to meet risk management, financing, and investment needs; corporate finance services, such as corporate advisory and finance, project and export finance, structured trade finance and financing, and structured finance solutions; and principal finance solutions. In addition, it offers preferred, priority and international, private, small and medium-sized enterprises, Islamic, and online banki ng services. The company operates approximately 1,700 branches, offices, and outlets in approximately 70 countries, located in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Standard Chartered PLC was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Top 5 Diversified Bank Companies To Own In Right Now: USCOM Ltd(UCM.AX)

Uscom Limited engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of non-invasive cardiac monitoring devices in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The company offers USCOM 1A (ultrasonic cardiac output monitor), which measures blood flow across the heart valves; continuous wave ultrasound transducers for pulmonary and aortic valves in adults, pediatrics, infants, and neonates; and OXYCOM for measuring oxygen delivery used in the clinical fields of pediatrics, emergency medicine, ICU, anesthesia, electrophysiology, and dialysis. The company offers its equipment through a network of distribution partners to hospitals and medical care facilities. Uscom Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.