ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve releases its balance sheet details each week. These are no longer moving the credit markets as the perception is that the end of quantitative easing has started via the…
ThinkstockFor a bull market to stay alive, you have to have participation from the financial sector. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been a financial stock buyer for many…
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has released its holdings as of the end of the first quarter of 2014. We were originally not expecting many major changes to the portfolio.…
ThinkstockEarlier this week we showed how a key market technician was showing concern that banks and financials are not participating in the rally. That is particularly troubling when you consider that the…
More than once over the past two years, the 24/7 Wall St. team has tried to identify opportunistic times to effectively short the Treasury bond market. If the horrible reaction to Thursday’s…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaAfter finishing last year strong, U.S. equity markets had a volatile start this year, pulling back from all-time highs. Stocks have recovered since and, so far this…
Some 38,000 attendees are scheduled to appear at the annual meeting this weekend for Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett has already been in the news quite a bit ahead of the event.
In a new research report, the analysts at Jefferies point out that after earnings reports, even if they are positive, top value names are outperforming growth names.
In a new research report, RBC adds and deletes names from its Guided Portfolio: Dividend Growth offering. We screened them by sector, looking for the highest yield for income-oriented investors.
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.
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.
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govNow that stocks have pulled back from their highs, some investors have moved on to more defensive stock positions. That move often lands some of the top dividend payers as…
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…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Monday, March 24, 2014. They include Bank of America, NetApp, Stratasys, Symantec and Wells Fargo.
ThinkstockIn the past, big banks and banks that took bailout money had to fret over each and every round of stress tests. That appears to be far from the case for the…
