Bank of America (BAC) put out earnings and the stock started selling off. BAC reported third quarter net income declined 32 percent to $3.70 billion from $5.42 billion a year earlier. Diluted…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, the Mortgage Bankers Association said that mortgage originations will fall next year to the lowest levels since 2000, forcing job losses for at least 30,000 more home finance professionals.…
DJIA component and financial giant JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) is set to report earnings Wednesday morning before the open. We have First Call estimates at $0.90 EPS & $16.6 Billion, but based upon…
Chinese officials confirmed and several media outlets reported that China’s Citic Bank would like to buy a piece of Bear Stearns (BSC). Members of Congress will likely mount their soap boxes and…
More details are out on this huge superfund we covered over the weekend to take advantage of over-sold (or now illiquid) asset-backed securities and loans. The name of the structure is a…
Citigroup CEO-for-life Chuck Prince engineered another major reorganization of his senior management group. This time the reason was all of the mortgage and fixed income losses the bank had. The ones that…
"Judges traditionally have been skeptical of buyers’ efforts to walk away from acquisitions by arguing that economic or regulatory conditions have changed so much that deals should be terminated, several lawyers who…
It did not take Sallie Mae (SLM) long to sue the private equity firms that planned to buy it, and the banks that were to fund the deal. The lead investor was…
The FT ran a piece in which research firm Sanford Bernstein is quoted as saying that loses at Bank of American (BAC) and JP Morgan (JPM) will be just as bad, if…
According to Reuters, Morgan Stanley (MS) plans to start a wealth management business in India. Reuters writes that Alan Greenspan said that US economic growth is slowing. Reuters writes that SAP (SAP)…
ACAD started as Hold at Citigroup.ALB raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.AMB raised to Buy at B of A.APD cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.BAC started as Buy at Goldman Sachs.BDN cut…
After seeing Citigroup’s (NYSE:C) news this morning and listening to snippets of the conference call, it seems that at 9:00 AM when shares were down 2% would have been a much easier…
SLM Corp. (NYSE:SLM), or Sallie Mae, has announced that it has been informed by a representative of the buyer group led by J. C. Flowers, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JPMorgan Chase…
The New York Times is reporting that Warren Buffett may be one of the people looking at taking a large interest in Bear Stearns (BSC), perhaps 20%. Bank of America (BAC) and…
It looks like short sellers decided to bail out of the money center banking stocks ahead of the FOMC decision on rates. This is consistent with the overall trends if you look…
