Last Friday at the meeting of the G20 in Cannes, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) revealed a list of 29 global systemically important financial institutions (known as the G-Sifis). These institutions are…
Today was a day of red that went to a day of green. Earnings were at first a disappointment, and producer price index came out far hotter at +0.8% on the headline…
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.…
Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS) is supposed to be one of the premier trust bank operations that caters to the wealthy and to pension funds. The current economy and low rate environment…
The floor for interest rates is ZERO. Right? Apparently not when extreme conditions arise. Those extreme conditions came today as investors moved solidly into the safety of very short-dated T-bills and the…
Screening for value in banks right now is probably a fools’ game. In fact, J.P Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) trades at close to 0.9-times book value and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:…
At the end of 2010, US ETFs held assets of $1.005 trillion. By the end of 2015 that number will more than double to $2.091 trillion. That’s a compound annual growth rate…
Do voluntary markets for renewable energy work? Government-mandated energy portfolios sort of work although the energy costs more and utilities — and consumers — often wail at having to buy the more…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has found itself as the king of the mortgage mess after it decided to acquire Countrywide. By acquiring the company’s corpse rather than trying to just…
We are seeing several key bank earnings now that our two DJIA component-banks have already reported earnings. We have briefly given note of the earnings report on each bank this morning, but our…
The U.S. Treasury is finally getting on with its asset disposition plan. This morning came the long-awaited announcement that it will start to sell its remaining portfolio of $142 billion held in…
Jon C. Ogg The economy and investment categories may both be normalizing again, but dividend investors will get to start looking at banks again. Today was D-Day for Dividend Day as the Federal Reserve is freeing up the…
24/7 Wall Street is bringing news and analysis in dividends and dividend trends for income oriented investors each day at 11:00 AM EST. We are now less than two weeks away from…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank’s dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy banks. The…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Raised to Neutral at BofA/ML. CBOE…
