These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on March 19, 2014. They include Compugen, Enterprise Products Partners, Juniper Networks, Suncor Energy and Yingli Green…
For the second year in a row, Wells Fargo comes in number one as the most valuable banking brand, according to one of the world's leading valuation consultancy firms. American banks claim…
ThinkstockBanco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) may be a banking giant based in Spain, and that automatically makes it one the banks of the PIIGS nations. Something hard to utter in the same…
ThinkstockIn an exclusive report from Reuters this morning, “people familiar with the situation” say that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will end its investigation into certain practices at…
ThinkstockAnother hefty settlement is apparently due to be announced related to charges of money laundering that have hit some of the world’s biggest banks. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HSBC…
Market in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei dropped 10% to 9,961. The Hang Seng dropped .4% to 18,718. The Shanghai Composite fell .7% to 2,798. At the open in Europe, the FTSE…
Some bright person came up with the term "decoupling". It is meant to say that trouble in the US economy will not spread to the hot economies is Asia. Perhaps it gives…
Douglas A. McIntyre 
