First-quarter earnings season unofficially kicks off today with Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) reporting after the close. The outlook this quarter has been particularly weak.
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April 8 - News
Bank robberies conjure up images of famous criminals like Jesse James or Bonnie and Clyde.
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April 8 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 9,000 points for the first time in its history on April 6, 1998.
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April 8 - News
For years, the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping interest rates near 0% has crushed retirees trying to draw income from their life savings.
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April 7 - News
The big banks took a pounding this week, and Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) was no exception: down 2.30% on the week.
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April 6 - News
The "criticism is deserved," Ackman said on Friday of Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive who has been tasked with overhauling the staid retail chain and who has come under...
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April 6 - Hedge Funds
As I write this, about midway through the final day of the trading week, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) is down a whopping 4.34% for the week.
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April 5 - News
The landscape of the banking industry has changed dramatically over the last 30 years.
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April 5 - News
For 2012, Fannie Mae reported a $17 billion profit. The juxtaposition of "profit" and "Fannie Mae" probably seems a bit odd.
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April 4 - News
Several sources have recently reported that since the 2008 economic crisis erupted, banks have been slammed with lawsuits filed by private investors and federal and state authorities...
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April 3 - News
Even though unemployment is still brutal and mortgage delinquencies are high, credit card delinquencies are at the lowest rate in at least two decades, according to data from ...
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April 3 - News
Peak oil theory has gained widespread recognition at various points over the past several decades, usually during times when fears about oil supply shortages have been at their...
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April 3 - News
Here's something you don't see everyday: Apple Inc.
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April 3 - News
Shares of the nation's second largest bank by assets, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), are trading higher today after the lending giant came to an agreement with the federal regulator...
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April 2 - News
With more than $1.4 trillion in assets, I wouldn't exactly call Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) an under-the-radar bank, but it typically doesn't make the headlines the way its big...
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April 2 - News
Besides investigating how shareholder activism at Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) led to the final approval of its new executive compensation plan, this article aims to examine other...
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April 2 - News
Before anyone gets too bent out of shape, let me state first off, this isn't a Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) attack piece, per se (though regular readers will know I'm bearish...
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April 1 - News
Investors seem to be fooling around with Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) this April morning, as the bank experiences some downward movement in share price amid lots of trading...
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April 1 - News
In this full interview with Doug Levy, he discusses his new book, Can't Buy Me Like.
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April 1 - News
Yesterday officially marked the end of the first quarter. Generally speaking, it was a good quarter for the banking industry.
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April 1 - News
The economic turmoil in Europe hasn't been friendly to American bank stocks this week.
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March 30 - News
When I began investing, bank stocks piqued my curiosity, but they definitely seemed too exotic and too arcane.
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March 29 - News
Well fellow Fools, it's entirely possible that somewhere in the world, swine are aloft, because not only am I recommending Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), but just last week I purchased...
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March 28 - News
A big bank's balance sheet can be a dark and scary place. Some of the world's smartest investors have sworn off allocating any of their dollars to the financial behemoths.
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March 27 - News
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) is an investor darling, at the very least around The Motley Fool.
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March 26 - News
Even though the situation in Cyprus and its repercussions throughout Europe are still playing out, investors turned their attention to positive economic data here at home today...
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March 26 - News
The deal to rescue the banking system of the tiny island of Cyprus has the world drawing a guarded deep breath. Certainly, the bailout is good news.
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March 26 - News
Some four years after the incredible financial collapse in the U.S., much talk has been made about how to prevent such catastrophic events from happening again.
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March 26 - News
When it comes to banks to invest in for the long-run, few of the big banks fit the traditional criteria of what investors look for: stability, low-risk assets, good dividend yield...
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March 25 - News
Although the American banking sector is now healthier than at any point during the past half-decade, it remains hamstrung by a number of secular issues.
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March 25 - News
There's no joy in Mudville today, despite the last-minute rescue of Cyprus' imploding banking system.
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March 25 - News
Big US banks have come back strong in recent years.
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March 25 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) rose to its ninth new intraday high for the month of March this morning, as investors felt a sigh of relief that leaders in Cypress...
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March 25 - News
We’ve all heard of the revolving door, whereby corporate executives move between private industry and the public sector, often into regulatory positions.
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March 25 - News
We are not that far removed from the near total collapse of the financial and banking systems in the United States, and the rest of the world as well.
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March 25 - News
Ever since the celebrations at the beginning of the new millennium, investors have had to deal with turbulent markets.
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March 25 - News
According to a Forbes article, the nation’s strongest and safest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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March 25 - News
Millions of Americans have been angry at big Wall Street banks ever since the financial crisis.
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March 24 - News
How is it possible that Cyprus, a Mediterranean island smaller than the state of Connecticut, has been able to captivate the financial media for the past eight days? It's a 10...
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March 23 - News
As such, we can be forgiven for sometimes thinking they constitute the entire investable-banking universe.
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March 22 - News
The Federal Reserve has approved most of the big U.S. banks’ capital plans, including Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) and Citigroup Inc.
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March 21 - News
Make no mistake about it -- the past few weeks have been huge for banks.
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March 21 - News
When it comes to capital distribution policies, many investors focus their attention almost exclusively on dividend payments.
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March 21 - News
Shares in the major indexes are broadly lower today on the back of a bevy of economic reports and a disappointing earnings release in the technology sector.
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March 21 - News
What is a good reputation worth? In business, it can be worth quite a lot.
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March 21 - News
When it comes to capital distribution policies, many investors focus their attention almost exclusively on dividend payments.
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March 20 - News
With some fanfare, the Federal Reserve's “Stress Tests” have been released as concerned to the nation's largest bank holding companies.
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March 20 - News
It's the time of year when spring is in the air, and the first quarter is about to close, giving us an idea of how the new year will be treating our favorite companies.
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March 19 - News
Investors want dividend income, and most companies have been more than willing to deliver higher dividends to their shareholders.
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March 19 - News
