A new consumer agency fines Capital One (NYSE: COF) $210 million for aggressive marketing activity.(Reuters) New IMF policies will examine whether individual national economies might hurt global growth. (Reuters) IBM (NYSE: IBM) raises…
The three major US stock indexes opened modestly lower this morning as there was little news out of Europe and Asian markets closed mixed. Traders were waiting to hear more from Fed…
Fewer investors than at any time since April 2009 believe that corporate profits can grow by more than 10%, according to the July survey of fund managers by BofA/Merrill Lynch, a division…
Paul Ausick Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has joined the money-center banks in beating earnings expectations. Excluding items, Bank of America earnings came to $0.19 per share and revenue was $21.97 billion. We…
Jon C. Ogg The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning in advance of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s semi-annual report to Congress and following some data on inflation (more coverage here), industrial production,…
Wednesday is going to mark yet another important day for the early wave of key earnings for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies as we noted…
So far, Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is getting a favorable reaction to its second-quarter earnings report. The international banking giant’s earnings came in ahead of Wall St. consensus targets from Thomson Reuters,…
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) has managed to beat earnings but it is obviously going to be in second place after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The bank still…
The short interest data is out from the June 29 settlement date. It seems that there were some big changes with some key cult stocks and actively traded stocks seeing big changes…
Stocks are taking it on the chin again and the charts have been telling you that there has been a bias to the sell-side. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) even lowered…
In the stock picking beauty pageants, JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) has won a prize. Bloomberg reported: JPMorgan, under Americas equity research head Noelle Grainger, scored the largest number of highly ranked analysts,…
Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) hit an all-time low of $7.72 yesterday. CNBC points out that part of the cause was the online coupon company’s exposure in Europe. The observation may be the first…
This Friday is going to mark a key earnings day when we get earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). These two earnings…
Italy may turn to the eurozone as it weighs options for its debt. (Reuters) AMR, still in Chapter 11, will consider mergers with other airlines, which could include US Airways (NYSE: LCC), JetBlue (NASDAQ:…
The world’s largest companies have never had a reputation for showering investors with information about their financial situations and operations. The rules that might make them do so are too lax. Government authorities…
