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The market capitalization of some big banks has doubled in a month. All of them will have “stress test” results…
The Federal Reserve keeps saying that many of its dealings with the financial industry must remain secret. Congress keeps insisting that no such…
Investors find it disconcerting to see the stocks in the huge financial institutions that are at the foundation of the…
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is going to be taking the bank stocks significantly higher, particularly the Direxion Financial…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Morgan Stanley (MS) lost money in the first quarter. The reason appears to be…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and its subsidiaries had already been on credit watch elsewhere, but there is a very…
Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis has based what is left of his reputation on the fact that the…
There is no end to it, this process of bailing out financial institutions. Once the banks were stable, the rest…
There is a reading of the economy which we used to see only go up and up, and that is…
Several prominent bank analysts came out with statements yesterday saying that the largest US financial firms would post more heavy…
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is trading up marginally this morning on word that its subsidiary, Level 3 Financing,…
Maybe the market’s perception that bank stocks are out of the woods is premature. Many of the stocks in the…
The rights offering made by HSBC (HBC) raised over $18 billion and the participation rate was over 96%. That should…
There are more rumors that Goldman Sachs (GS) will pay back its TARP funds. The latest comes from the London…
A lot of people and members of Congress are upset that banks that took TARP money may buy toxic assets…
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