Banks are back in favor. The most recently announced round of quantitative easing via mortgage-backed securities purchases from the Federal Reserve follows a ratings action earlier this year in which Moody’s downgraded 15…
Almost 40% of young people aged 13 to 22 (so-called Generation Z) expect to receive an inheritance and thus do not need to save for retirement. At the same time, just 16%…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) raised to Neutral from Sell at…
Research firm SNL Financial has released its list of the top 50 U.S. banks at the end of the second quarter of 2012. The eleven largest banks are JPMorgan Chase & Co.…
If you think that the higher regulation of banks and financial institutions is immaterial, it is not. Even if the banks need far more regulation than what they had been accustomed to,…
At a time when corporate malfeasance is high on the public radar, it is important to understand corporate structure and how the checks and balances within a public company operate. GMI, a…
Moody’s recent downgrade of 15 of the world’s largest banks, along with JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s (NYSE: JPM) multibillion trading loss, make it clear that certain big banks are just not…
Flickr, Images of MoneyAs part of the $26 billion mortgage foreclosure settlement reached between the federal and state governments with a number of mortgage lenders, borrowers who believe that their homes were…
As new regulations have eaten into their profits, banks have looked for new ways to increase revenue from their customers. Many banks tried, unsuccessfully, to implement debit card fees. More successful for…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) Raised to Buy at Goldman…
The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain investors and…
You hear it all the time… “This bank is so cheap against book value that it cannot go lower.” Book value, and even tangible book value, has become a pre-recession metric that…
Earnings dominated the press coverage of today’s shares. Novartis and Harley-Davidson released numbers Icahn Enterprise was thumped after it made a bid for Clorox, which was rejected. Boeing was hit because large…
Screening for value in banks right now is probably a fools’ game. In fact, J.P Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) trades at close to 0.9-times book value and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
