Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions. Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is that a…
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
The twenty-five subprime lenders that originated $1 trillion in high interest loans between 2005 and 2007 got their funding from Wall St. banks that are now the beneficiaries of TARP money. According…
To call the triple-leverage financial ETF of the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) volatile would be the understatement of the year. It has become the day trading instrument of choice…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) has created a new exchange traded note based on “the portfolio of midstream energy underlying the Alerian MLP Index.” The new structured investment is called the JPMorgan…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has issued a negative bank research call for the major money center and super-regional banks this morning. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup, Inc.…
Stock research firm FBR has had trouble with its analysis about the banking industry before. It recently wrote that the US banking system needs at minimum $1 trillion in new tangible common…
Short sellers are not longer willing to gamble on a collapse in the share prices of America’s largest financial firms. Perhaps they think that the issue of nationalization has largely disappeared, the…
It seems that when Congress is not in session that there is at least some peace, some tranquility, and some notion of what the rules of the great financial game for tomorrow…
Douglas A. McIntyre The demands for the head of Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit have not ended and may rise to a crescendo again if the bank receives poor “stress test” ratings from the federal…
There are not so many brokerage calls this morning for it being earnings season, but these are the top 10 analyst calls of upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street we have seen…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) rose about 7% yesterday ahead of this morning’s earnings announcement along with other major financial stocks, and now we know why. Jamie Dimon and friends at…
According to Reuters, Obama vowed to overhaul the tax code. Reuters reports that GM (GM) is working on a plan to cut dealers at an accelerated pace. Reuters writes that China’s first…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) would like to return to its old businesses and compensation practices, but it may not be able to. Reuters reports that the US is planning to…
The market capitalization of some big banks has doubled in a month. All of them will have “stress test” results from the government within a few weeks. Those that get fairly high…
