Bankrate, Inc. (NYSE: RATE) is actually holding up better than many secondary offering and post-IPO investors might have considered today. The company announced after the close on Friday that its underwriters agreed…
Auto sales reach a two-year high. (Reuters) Tom Glocer, the head of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), resigns and will be replaced by the COO. (Reuters) The intellectual property battle between Apple (NASDAQ:…
Banks were able to shine for years and years over credit unions. This new age of “too big to fail” after bailouts and then banks gouging customers for charges may be creating…
In a threat to a national settlement related to the foreclosure “robo-signing” investigation, the attorney general of Massachusetts has filed suit against Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), J.P. Morgan Chase &…
The US Department of Energy in early September approved a conditional loan guarantee of $275 million to Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) and its BofA/Merrill Lynch division to support the installation…
Paul Ausick Corporations can spend hundreds of million dollars just so they can put their name on a major league sports stadiums. 24/7 Wall St. looked that the 13 largest stadium-naming rights deals and…
Standard & Poor’s is at it again… more downgrades and this time in the ailing banking sector. While we focused solely on the U.S.-based banks here, the downgrade was handed aimed at…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has not done well with a good market nor with a bad market. The big gap-up Monday was sold off and now the lows on Tuesday…
Jon C. Ogg S&P may cut its outlook on France’s AAA debt. (Reuters) A judge blocks the $285 million settlement between Citigroup (NYSE: C) and the SEC. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) says Kindle sales rose…
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Morgan Stanly, and other huge banks have begun settlement talks with MBIA over billions the bond insurer lost on paper during the 2008 crash
The super-low bank P/E ratios may be showing something of a question. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and others top banks may have a…
US indices rose over 3%. The DJIA was higher by 2.83% to 11,549. The NASDAQ was higher by 3.58% to 2,529. The S&P was up by 3.23% to 1,196. The stocks of…
The Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend yielded much better retail figures that expected. This signals that retail sales could return to the robust level of the mid-2000s, before the recession began. That, in turn,…
The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain investors and…
The purchasing managers indices of China, German and France all signaled slow growth or contraction in November. It is a sign that demand for exports and consumer expenditures are in free fall. China and…
