One key consideration for the year ahead is that J.P. Morgan is now past its trading losses and charge-off scandals. Also, Jamie Dimon is now believed to be healthy and cancer-free.
A research report from the alpha generation team at Merrill Lynch focuses in on specific catalyst-driven ideas for the first 90 days of 2015.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls includes Alcatel-Lucent, ADM, Bank of America, Chesapeake Energy, Google, J.P. Morgan and MGM.
Oppenheimer has released a very positive report for three of America's four largest banks. The firm continues to believe that bank stocks are modestly undervalued and should outperform modestly.
The financial sector is the favorite rotation idea due to considerable signs of relative trend improvement versus the S&P 500.
In a new report, the analysts at UBS, while remaining very neutral on big global banks, upgrade the U.S. banking sector to Overweight.
Seven CEOs among those who run the nation's 30 largest companies made more than their firms paid in federal income tax.
Regardless of slow loan growth in the third quarter, most investors remain overweight the top banking stocks, despite recent volatility.
Investors wanting to add financials to a well-rounded portfolio need to look for investment banks with true international exposure.
Citigroup announced after the close that it is lowering its previously reported third-quarter 2014 financial results.
Jon C. Ogg 24/7 Wall St. has been tracking the major banks over the course of this week to kick off corporate earnings season.
UBS polled all of its analysts, who came up with 26 stocks by now. Here are the ones that offer large cap growth with the best upside.
After this week's key earnings reports, and despite a major market sell-off, Citigroup and Wells Fargo have both received key analyst upgrades.
These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades featured by 24/7 Wall St. for Thursday, October 16, 2014.
Citigroup is trying to stage a continued recovery as its earnings and revenues both grew in the third quarter.
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