thinkstockMay 6, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday and sank slowly and surely for the rest of the day. The dollar weakened against the yen overnight removing some enthusiasm for risk in…
ThinkstockAmerican consumers have a higher opinion of Amazon.com than any other company. For the second year in a row, the online retailer held the top slot, beating out popular brands like Apple,…
thinkstockApril 11, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite breaking into positive territory late in the morning. Unfortunately neither index could hold the gain as…
Wells Fargo reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings before markets opened Friday morning. The said it will raise its dividend and repurchase 350 million of its shares.
JPMorgan Chase reported disappointing fiscal first-quarter results before markets opened Friday morning. It also raised its dividend and said it will repurchase $6.5 billion in common stock.
Paul Ausick Friday morning is likely to set the tone of earnings season as far as the big banks are concerned. The two largest banks are reporting earnings: J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
CitiCorp and Morgan Stanley Asset Management took terrible beatings from respondents in the 2014 U.S. Full Service Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study while Fidelity Investments did particularly well.
Wikimedia CommonsBeing a bank CEO and Chairman is still no easy task in the current climate. In the world of the public reviewing CEO pay, it turns out that Jamie Dimon of…
Jon C. Ogg The recent violent sell-off has unnerved investors and given the bears the floor for the first time in a while. However, there are some positive signs that job growth and workforce participation…
thinkstockApril 7, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday and were on a downhill slide all day long. Momentum stocks again had a terrible day. At the close of trading today the DJIA…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Friday, April 4, 2014. They include Anadarko, Cisco, GameStop, Micron, Forest Oil and Vodafone.
ThinkstockNot all banks are created equally, and not all Wall Street analysts are treating each bank the same. Oppenheimer is treating most of the major money-center banks as though they are all…
J.P. Morgan announced Thursday that it has received clearance from U.S. regulators to process a transfer of funds from the Russian embassy in Kazakhstan to an insurance company partly owned by sanctioned…
In the first such action by a large U.S. financial institution as a result of sanctions against Russia, J.P. Morgan blocked a transfer of funds from a Russian embassy to an insurance…
ThinkstockWednesday’s big announcement is that the Federal Reserve did not object to the capital plans for some 25 of the 30 banks under review which were participating in the Comprehensive Capital Analysis…
