Reuters: The head of a Congressional watchdog committee is pushing for a consumer protection agency. Reuters: China defended its export policies against a WTO complaint. Reuters: Citigroup (C) intends to raise the…
Deutsche Bank says that the commercial real estate market in America will not recover until 2017. Richard Parkus, Deutsche Bank head of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities Synthetics Research, told Reuters…
Reuters: Airlines are cutting back on first class seating. Reuters: Xstrata wants merger talks with mining rival Anglo American. Reuters: Employers are cutting 401 (K) plans. Reuters: Brand loyalty is being hurt by…
Reuters: Investors are putting money into emerging markets except Eastern Europe. Reuters: Stanford will go to court for a $8 billion fraud allegation. Reuters: RIM’s (RIMM) outlook disappointed. Reuters: CEOs at bailed out…
Bank of America’s (BAC) addiction to giving its senior employees huge bonuses has not ended. These used to be based on “performance.” A banker who created toxic asset products that could be…
Reuters: Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters: A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters: Consumer prices show inflation is in check. Reuters: China could still be a big…
Reuters: The US outlined new financial market reforms. Reuters: Obama lobbied MDs on his new healthcare package. Reuters: Russia hosted the first BRIC summit. Reuters: B of A’s (BAC) BlackRock (BLK) stake…
After several weeks of conviction on the part of most economists that the current recession is a “single” dip which will end later this year, the advocates of a “double dip” recession…
Douglas A. McIntyre Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-Merrill), the new name for the brokerage arm of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), has come out this morning with a cautious call on brokerage firms…
Palm (PALM) may not have had much of a choice in terms of which cellular company was going to market its new Pre. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) were probably not…
Wall St. firms and the large money center banks with investment and M&A arms have continued to insist that their best talent will head to private equity firms and hedge funds as…
Reuters: The Supreme Court delays Chrysler deal. Reuters: The cleared ten banks to repay TARP include JPMorgan (JPM), Goldmand Sachs (GS), American Express (AXP), Cpaital One(COF), State Street (STT), BBT (BBT), Morgan…
The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying the Treasury’s preferred stock funds. This will get these institutions out from…
Maybe the initial “stress tests” of America’s 19 largest banks were flawed. Or, perhaps taking a single snapshot is not an adequate way to measure the ever-changing financial system. The Congressional Oversight…
The Treasury Department is likely to allow 10 banks which owe in money from TARP funds to pay it back a total of $50 billion. The money will probably burn a hole…
