Wells Fargo & Company
NYSE: WFC
$74.09
-$0.25 (-0.3%)
Closing Price on November 18, 2024
WFC Articles
Citigroup (C) is not going to make it, at least not an an independent company. The FT has reported that the head of Goldman Sachs (GS) called Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit to discuss a merger. Goldman...
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Too many mouths to feed. Someone will have to starve. Now that Henry Paulson has $700 billion and some discretion about how to spend it companies from car manufacturers to airlines want a piece. So...
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For the period ending October 15, short sellers got out of most banks and brokerage stocks. That is a shame for them. They could have made a killing this week. The short interest in Citigroup (C)...
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NCC (NCC) was bought today by PNC in what most people would view as a classic "takeunder" The price of the deal was well below where the shares traded yesterday. NCC’s stock is down 20% on the...
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This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down. What is interesting is that the financial stocks are the most leveraged to this, yet oddly enough most stocks...
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No matter where economists look there is no evidence that a recession in the US, EU, and Asia is doing anything but deepening. The stock markets are the least of it. Some of the indexes in the...
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It is a good thing Wachovia (WB) will not have to go it alone. It would not make it. Wachovia reported a net loss in the third quarter of 2008 of $23.89 billion, representing a net loss per share...
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Analysts often as about "earnings quality". How accurate are quarterly numbers? Are they being "managed" to make a company’s fortunes appear better than they actually are? The question has come up...
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The New York Times has a new writer, at least for a day. Warren Buffett has written an op-ed piece for the paper titled "Buy American. I Am." to shore up some hope for stability in the markets. ...
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Henry Paulson seems like a very large and old Eagle Scout. He would never mislead, at least not on purpose. He gave the impression as he announced that Treasury would dump $250 billion into nine...
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According to Reuters, Swiss banks are getting large amounts of capital to fight the global credit crisis. Reuters reports that AIG (AIG) is lobbying to loosen government oversight rules. Reuters...
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Good deeds should be their own rewards, but in the stock market that it not entirely true. Good earnings, especially in a harsh world, are supposed to yield shareholders something. In the perverse...
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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is following Jamie Dimon’s lead this morning with better results than other banks. The only "AAA" rated bank posted $0.49 EPS vs. $0.41 estimates. Revenues...
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Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is the latest of the banking giants to look like the old Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) business model. This became the case with the acquisition of Wachovia Corp....
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A big up day in the market, say 4% or 5%, is not a rally, at least not any more. The DJIA has proved that it can move 1,000 points from bottom to top or top to bottom in one trading session. If...
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