Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has just filed with the SEC information about its perceived total exposure to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities in an effort to fend off any over-exposure concerns. …
Douglas A. McIntyre The Fly on the Wall reported this morning that "Lehman downgraded shares of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) to Equal Weight from Overweight after the U.S. government said it will…
Douglas A. McIntyre Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) had their CEOs pushed out by the government this weekend. They will get fat pay packages and can go on to live in massive homes…
If the markets are to take bond guru Bill Gross at his word, the world’s financial markets could go through a cataclysmic failure. The head of fixed income fund operation Pimco says…
The evidence that sales at many companies are struggling and that employment will suffer are almost everywhere. Recently, a division of GMAC said it would let 5,000 people go. According to MSNBC,…
Through the weekend the management of Lehman (LEH) is desperately meeting with any investors who will hear its case. According to the Telegraph, these includes Korea Development Bank, Chinese broker Citic Securities,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The auction-rate fiasco is not over for banks. Having bought back about $55 billion of the paper, they are now faced with the reality that the bonds are only worth about $.80…
Citigroup (C) cut is earnings estimates for Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Lehman (LEH). Today, Bank of America (BAC) cuts its earnings targets for Goldman and Morgan Stanley. Sanford Bernstein…
The rule on Wall St. is that securities analysts don’t rate their own firms. Now that brokerage research departments are no longer slaves to investment banking, the independence of analysts is supposed…
It is not hard to blame Goldman Sachs (GS) for failing to cut its own earnings estimates for the next quarter and the full year. That kind of action by analysts is…
With nearly all of the top investment banks in a precarious financial position as a result of horrific investments in bad debt, banks have no shortage of things to worry about. But…
These are some of the top analyst downgrades or negative calls we are seeing this morning, and you’ll notice that brokerage firm stocks are again the targets of many downgrades: Citigroup (C)…
Banks that claim they are off-loading risk may be making a case which is a bit overblown. Recently, Citigroup (C) and RBS (RBS) dumped loans to private equity firms including Blackstone (BX).…
Famed investor Michael Price, a man who has been beating up on poorly-managed companies for decades, is short Citigroup (C) and Wachovia (WB). He reasons that the worst of the credit crisis…
Back in January, the Supreme Court placed stringent limitations on scheme liability — the notion that investment banks and accounting firms that inadvertently helped companies commit accounting fraud could face civil liability…