Banking, finance, and taxes
Banking, finance, and taxes Articles
It is always interesting when banks and investment banks offer investment coverage of their peers. Now, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is making a positive case for Citigroup and Regions Financial.
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The Federal Reserve's reported balance sheet for the week ending December 25, 2013, was at $4.071 trillion, and the balance on December 25 was $4.074 trillion. A $10 billion per month of tapering...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges are winning from the rebound in stock markets to new all-time highs. There may be one issue of concern, and that is...
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ThinkstockIn our previous looks at big bank stocks going into the new year, the two that appear to be best positioned for growth were Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:...
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While the Volcker Rule did not hit banks as hard as many expected, that is not to say that the big banks are off the hook in 2014. Sterne Agee has lowered its earnings per share (EPS) estimates for...
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Wikimedia CommonsIs Bitcoin shortable yet? That is the question I have heard from several financial professionals over the last month or so. Now comes yet another crushing blow for Bitcoin, and it...
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ThinkstockMore than two years ago, American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) in its aircraft leasing...
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ThinkstockLike other sectors of the S&P 500, the capital market stocks had a tremendous year. Capital market stocks include brokerage firms, asset managers, financial advisory firms and more....
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze around Bitcoin has been monumental. This will either become a great alternative currency, or it will become one of the most obvious bubbles (after the fact, of course) in...
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Jon OggMasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) is getting smart about having a ridiculously high nominal stock price. The credit card processing giant has announced the approval of a 10-for-1 stock split. When...
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ThinkstockBanco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) may be a banking giant based in Spain, and that automatically makes it one the banks of the PIIGS nations. Something hard to utter in the same question or...
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ThinkstockThe American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its ranking of the nation’s top four banks, which include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Wells...
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courtesy of BaiduBaidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is likely one of the key reasons that Bitcoin has been able to rise handily and gain more adoption. After all, when the largest search engine site in China...
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thinkstockIt seems hard to believe after years of decline, but bad news out of Greece has changed to “less-bad” and then to almost good news. We previously saw that the Greek budget may have a...
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ThinkstockJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has announced that hundreds of thousands of prepaid debit card users in America may have had their data breached. The bank reported that personal...
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