Short sellers are still betting that financial shares will fall but they have boldly moved into shares of companies which are considered healthy, those with both good balance sheets and relatively strong…
The head of Toll Brothers (TOL) said the housing market could not get worse, but it has anyway. People were not even bothering to come and see the homes his company builds.…
Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson may be holding guns to the heads of major banks to get them to "reset" the mortgages of troubled homeowners, or the generous spirit of the holidays…
The big dividend was a hallmark of the big bull market. It was accompanied by a small yield. Even generous payouts were only a little fraction of the share prices at most…
It is looking pretty light so far from analyst coverage this Monday morning. Here are some of the top individual stock calls we have seen this morning from Wall Street analysts: Chimera…
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has priced that monster share offering. Rather than $10 billion being raised, it is more like $11 billion. The banking giant priced 407.5 million shares at…
According to Reuters, Europe prepared rate cuts as the economy their worsened. Reuters reports that the administration cleared the way for the car companies to get access to $25 billion in loans,…
Depending upon where your local elections are held, it looks like we are the half-way mark for most voting poll times today. What has been a 19- or 20- month ordeal is…
Congress does not like the way that most bailout money is going to banks. It wants to see the little guy with the underwater mortgage and stagnant income get some direct help.…
Barclays (BCS) turned down cash from the UK government. Unlike most large US banks, it did not want to trade independence for money. Companies such as Goldman Sachs (GS), JP Morgan (JPM),…
According to Reuters, investors and banks are in a struggle over whether financial companies should be able to change the way they value assets under accounting rules. Reuters writes that improvements in…
Citigroup (C) is not going to make it, at least not an an independent company. The FT has reported that the head of Goldman Sachs (GS) called Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit to…
Too many mouths to feed. Someone will have to starve. Now that Henry Paulson has $700 billion and some discretion about how to spend it companies from car manufacturers to airlines want…
For the period ending October 15, short sellers got out of most banks and brokerage stocks. That is a shame for them. They could have made a killing this week. The short…
NCC (NCC) was bought today by PNC in what most people would view as a classic "takeunder" The price of the deal was well below where the shares traded yesterday. NCC’s stock…
