BofA and the Lesson of Assets Sales (BAC, AIG, XLF, FAS)
Shares in Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) are up more than 5.5% today following reports that the bank selling some assets to raise cash. There is also some speculation that the…
Shares in Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) are up more than 5.5% today following reports that the bank selling some assets to raise cash. There is also some speculation that the…
Updated throughout the day. Bank of America is shopping its position in CCB for $17 billion (Reuters) The FTC has increased the size of its probe of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) search and…
Risk in Europe continues to drag on global shares. (Reuters) Concerns about how S&P (NYSE: MHP) sets rating bring calls for reform. (Reuters) Rules on CME (NASDAQ: CME) margins move gold lower.…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) says QE3 was likely after the Fed’s recent comments. (Reuters) HSBC (NYSE: HBC) sells its U.S. credit card business to Capitol One. (Reuters) China not likely to raise…
The CEOs at many of the most troubled companies have been in place for a long time and investors have to question how they keep their jobs. Eventually, performance has to count,…
We have many shares moving in the after-hours session this Tuesday evening. Not all are earnings, but keep in mind that this was on the heels of a 400+ point rally in…
Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities spoke out this morning on CNBC saying that the “AAA” rating should not even apply to the U.S. when you include the $14.4 trillion that will grow…
The market has brutalized many great companies and we are seeing the mayhem reach a cycle-peak in the VIX if the history of the market holds up after hitting 48.0 yesterday during…
The consensus among economists is that the Federal Reserve has run out of options to save the troubled American economy and collapsed stock markets. That may not be true, depending on how…
The Federal Reserve is under pressure to offer solutions to falling markets and a slow economy. (Reuters) The Swiss franc hits a record against the euro. (Reuters) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)…
2.25 PM Comments from the Fed killed the rally, and the DJIA dropped into negative territory. The central bank will keep interest rates low through mid-2013, but it did not indicate any…
Usually you would think that a 400 point drop or a 500 point drop in the DJIA (NYSE: DIA) implies that capitulation is upon us. Right now, the word “hopefully” comes to…
4.00 PM VIX panic index up 40% to highest level since credit crisis. DJIA closes at lows off 628 which is 5.3%.NYSE trades 2.3 billion shares NASDAQ off 6.9%. S&P down nearly…
When you have a credit rating downgrade of the U.S. followed by a 300+ point drop in the DJIA and another near-100 point drop in the NASDAQ, it is no shock at…