Any time you have a shareholder talking up a company, you have to understand that they are talking up their book.  Billionaires do this, and they tend to be listened to more than others when it...
Source: Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThis week kicks off yet another earnings season, this time for the fourth quarter of 2012. The best thing that will come from earnings is that expectations...
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...
Source: Jon OggWhile not breaking news at this point, there is something that is front and center in banking when it comes to overdraft fees.  To many consumers, overdraft fees are simply nothing...
Has J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) managed to help further turn banks around in 2012?  The sector which had no friends in 2011 is now actually the top bill in the DJIA as Bank of America...
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is still in a pinch despite more than a 100% bounce from recent lows, and its still-relatively new CEO is caught right in the middle of a storm he might not escape.  This...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:...
Jamie Dimon and friends over at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will kick off the earnings season for the major money center banks and too-big-to-fail institutions on Friday in the early morning...
As more information hits the press about the amount of money the government will say big banks will need due to the results of “stress tests”, it is already clear that three banks, Citigroup (C),...
On today’s STOP TRADING on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that the Lehman (NYSE:LEH) exit from the mortgage business is a positive because this wasn’t making money.  He’d be a buyer on...