Just a few months ago, sovereign funds could not get enough stock and debt in financial firms like Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER). When the time came to bail-out…
According to Reuters, the Fed is opening up its own balance sheet to poisonous securities it may get from banks in exchange for cash. Reuters writes that JP Morgan (JPM) bought Bear…
Those rummaging through the garbage of 52-week low lists are usually bottom-fishing investors or desperate CEOs. But, the list is so broad that it has become a tableau of the market as…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) is asking regulators to change the way that assets are marked to market at financial companies. This system has caused tens of billions of dollars to be written off…
The Federal Reserve has just made an expansion of its securities lending program to add much more liquidity to the banking system, but the difference here is that this goes above and…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs says the Fed may make an emergency rate cut. Reuters writes that Nokia (NOK) is likely to sell down now that information from chip company Texas Instruments…
Lehman (NYSE: LEH) hit by concerns about huge Q1 write-offs. Falls to $42.77 from 52-week high of $82.05. Citigroup (NYSE: C) sells off because bank may have to raise more money. Down…
Shares of Citigroup (NYSE: C) have done what some would have thought impossible. Last year that $40.00 floor was the imaginary hurdle, then $30.00 became the last hurdle. But today the stock…
Douglas A. McIntyre Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) went and got itself a tin cup. Federal regulators want it to raise more money so that it can lend more money. The mortgage bank is making the…
The short interest on the NYSE hit an all-time record for the period ending February 29. Figures by company compare to shares sold short on Ferbruary 15. Financial firms had significant increases…
According to Reuters, falling home prices could keep buyers on the sidelines until they see a bottom. Reuters writes that a Microsoft (MSFT) deal with Yahoo! (YHOO) could hurt Google (GOOG) in…
Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) Fear of Chapter 11. Falls to $1.26 from 52-wek high of $28.40. CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) Lehman Brothers cuts price target. Drops to $15 from 52-week high of…
A number of the large financial stocks took news of a write-down at UBS (NYSE: UBS), debt problems at Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), and downgrades of Thornburg (NYSE: TMA) hard. Hitting 52-week…
Ill-timed remarks by Sameer Al Ansari, chief executive of Dubai International Capital hurt Citigroup’s (C) shares yesterday. The man said that Citi would need more capital and that it might not be…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Google (GOOG) lost a key executive to Facebook. Reuters reports that losses at Credit Agricole were worse than expected Reuters reports that OPEC indicated that it would leave production…