Banking, finance, and taxes
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ThinkstockAlly Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) had two things working it for shares to rally on Tuesday. The first was that not all of the underwriting group was bullish as Ally’s quiet period was in...
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Wells Fargo has become the safest of the large banks in America. That can always change in the years ahead, particularly if another mortgage or housing crisis arises. But for now it is the safest.
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A new report from Deutsche Bank points out a pullback in monetary policy is a near-term negative. The firm does however, have five top bank stocks to buy now that it remains very positive on.
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve releases its balance sheet details each week. These are no longer moving the credit markets as the perception is that the end of quantitative easing has started via the...
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ThinkstockFor a bull market to stay alive, you have to have participation from the financial sector. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been a financial stock buyer for many...
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Wikimedia CommonsGet ready for the debate over “too big to fail” all over again. It is always interesting when a former Federal Reserve Chairman is out speaking about the world after their...
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ThinkstockCan you imagine that the Greek banking sector is being raised by a credit ratings agency? It sounds impossible to imagine if you have been following the story as long as we have. Still,...
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ThinkstockThe media debate over PIMCO about who said what between “bond king” Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian is not in the news so much right now, but the reputational damage to the firm may...
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ThinkstockEarlier this week we showed how a key market technician was showing concern that banks and financials are not participating in the rally. That is particularly troubling when you consider...
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Courtesy of American ExpressAmerican Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is an important financial stock to the markets, only a part of which is because it is a Dow Jones Industrial Average component. The...
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Amazon.com announced Tuesday morning that it is adding France, Italy and Spain to the countries where its virtual currency, Amazon Coins, are available, giving away millions of them to new customers.
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ThinkstockTechnicians are an interesting lot. After all, they use charts, inflows and other overbought or oversold indicators to see what the story is telling you. It is no secret that longer-term...
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Jon OggMore than once over the past two years, the 24/7 Wall St. team has tried to identify opportunistic times to effectively short the Treasury bond market. If the horrible reaction to Thursday’s...
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ThinkstockBarclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), the U.K.-based bank that has been in legal trouble for most of the past half-decade, will downsize its investment bank by as many as 14,000 people. As part of the...
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Wikimedia CommonsAmerican International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is out with its first quarter earnings. As a reminder, Barron’s recently published that AIG could double in five years. AIG reported...
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