Bank Of America Corp
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$42.60
Closing Price on October 17, 2024
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, has voted to loosen its rules for the (now dreaded) balance sheet act of mark-to-market valuation for accounting. Many will argue that this is...
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Secretary Geithner has been late to every party he has attended since talking over Treasury. His plans have often been tardy and full of holes. He seemed to redeem himself with the new public/private...
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Today was a critical day for the banking sector. The country’s top banking chiefs met with President Obama over the recent discrepancies in TARP fund ramifications, paying back the TARP,...
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There is nothing wrong with regulatory agencies and regulations for that matter. It is what keeps four-year-olds from becoming airline pilots and orangutans from being airline mechanics. The theory...
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Secretary Tim Geithner designed a plan to assist the largest banks to rid themselves of toxic mortgage assets, but now Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) are aggressively buying up...
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Based on the rise in the short interest in banks at mid-month, it is clear how badly investors betting bank stocks would go down were mauled. As of March 15, shares short in AIG (AIG) were up 17% to...
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Maybe Wall St. is not so in love with the Treasury’s plan to buy toxic assets after all. Citigroup (C) is trading at $2.86 this morning, which is where it changed hands last Friday. The same holds...
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According to Reuters, a number of AIG (AIG) employees gave back their bonuses. Reuters reports that economist Martin Feldstein said the recession may last well into 2010 and the government may have...
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According to Reuters, the House passed a bill that would tax AIG’s (AIG) and some other bonuses by 90%. Reuters reports that the US gave auto suppliers a $5 billion lifeline. Reuters says that it...
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Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is now claiming it could pay back the TARP monies late in 2009 or in 2010, earlier than expected. In a report from the Charlotte Observer, CEO Ken Lewis said this...
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Meredith Whitney is and was one of the most influential banking analysts on Wall Street. She was negative on the banking and investment banking sector for roughly two years and has been credited as...
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As you will see below, there are many new calls in the banking and brokerage sector this Tuesday morning: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. ...
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After days or pressure from Congress and the public, AIG (AIG) released data about which counterparties to it credit default swap portfolio got large chunks of money from the federal government...
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The market rally over the last few days based its activity on just a few events, but the press and investors have grabbed them and are holding on for dear life. The first trigger for the elation was...
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According to Reuters, investors in GE (GE) are still worried that the stock will not recover to its highs of last year. Reuters reports that Madoff pleaded guilty of 11 charges of fraud. Reuters...
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