It is time for “The Daily Dividend.” By now it is well-known that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) failed to win Federal Reserve approval to raise its dividend or repurchase stock. The reasons may…
The Treasury Department website is dominated by a headline that reads “Tarp Bank Programs Make Money.” The assertion has been challenged by the Congressional Budget Office. The fact that the statement might be even…
If you have watched Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) or Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) recently, you will have figured out that the banks are not just in trouble. These banks could literally be…
Today’s “Daily Dividend Watch” is one with a bit more caution. Hudson City Bancorp (NASDAQ: HCBK) is one of those regional banks which we recently noted that already had a high dividend yield before the…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is finally getting the respect it deserves. The asset manager is being added to the S&P 500 Index. The index had held this addition up for years due to the…
AMC Entertainment Inc. is set to be one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011. Now the company has an SEC filing from late-Thursday showing that it has filed three debt offerings…
Jon OggInvestors are still trying to key off of which banks can and cannot hike their dividends under Federal Reserve approval. In short, it is the healthy versus the unhealthy. We have stated that…
It is time for “The M&A Daily” and we have what might normally appear as a red flag alert here today. Yesterday’s news that Sanofi-Aventis SA (NYSE: SNY) was borrowing $7 billion via debt sales…
It’s “The Daily Dividend.” Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is getting hit this morning on news that the Federal Reserve denied a request by the largest bank by deposits to increase its quarterly…
The Federal Reserve made a profit last year. It turned $79 billion of its $82 billion in “comprehensive income” over to the Treasury. The agency is an island of profit in the federal government…
It is 12:00 Noon and that means it is time for The M&A Daily. While news came out on Monday that Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW) was acquiring optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OXPS), this…
It’s the Daily Dividend at 11:00 AM. We often look for value, growth, and dividends in financial stocks. Banks have been elusive on the dividend front until just the last couple of days, although…
Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD) has filed to raise up to $1 billion in debt securities in the United States for its subsidiary Santander Holdings USA, Inc. Santander is the parent company of Sovereign…
It’s 1:00 PM and time for “The IPO Daily” covering anything and everything around initial public offerings. Last week it looked as though the IPO for Apollo Global Management, LLC was going to get…
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is announcing something that we are a bit surprised about this morning. It is not quite a shell game, but it is a strategy that rarely works well for investors. …