After suffering losses yesterday, stocks are bouncing back this morning, with the S&P 500 and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.52% and 0.47%, respectively...
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April 4 - News
This has been a great year so far for Wall Street: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is already up more than 11% in a year characterized by record-setting highs and massive corporate...
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April 3 - News
When we look at stocks, we primarily do so from a value perspective.
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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
It took a few hours to sink in, but investors sold off stocks after some weak economic data was reported this morning.
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April 3 - News
Here's my favorite headline of the day: "Retail Investors Are Back! But Don't Hit 'Sell' Yet," courtesy of our friends over at CNBC. The point of the article is simple.
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April 3 - News
Forget about yesterday's great gains. The markets are embracing the red today, and as of 2:30 p.m.
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April 3 - News
This morning payroll processor ADP reported an upward revision to its February payroll figures from 198,000 to 237,000.
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April 3 - News
In the past year, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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April 3 - News
As various so-called reforms get passed by Congress, banks devise new schemes to get more fees out of consumers.
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April 3 - News
LONDON -- If you're interested in building a profitable, diversified portfolio, then you will often need to compare similar companies when choosing which share to buy next.
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April 3 - News
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) has outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year, thanks at least in part to a quarterly report which beat analyst expectations.
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April 3 - Stock Analysis
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
The big banks have certainly regained much of their financial health since the mortgage meltdown, but their reputations have not rebounded in tandem.
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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
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down following the release of worse-than-expected manufacturing data. As of 1:15 p.m. EDT the Dow is down 12 points, or 0.08%, to 14,567.
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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
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
One sector that is red-hot is the luxury home market, which has spurred a resurgence of jumbo mortgages, those megaloans that are considered too big and risky to garner backing...
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April 1 - News
The roller-coaster ride on the markets continued this week.
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March 31 - 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
Yesterday, the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) hit a new record high for the first time since 2007.
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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
The Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) is climbing this morning on the news that Cypriot banks have reopened without incident.
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March 28 - News
We would be better off if we downsized the whole financial sector by about 80%.
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March 28 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been anything but consistent this week, dropping back into the red today after yesterday's gains. As of 2:15 p.m.
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March 27 - 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
After a brief respite yesterday, Europe is back at the center of attention for stock market investors today.
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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
There's no joy in Mudville today, despite the last-minute rescue of Cyprus' imploding banking system.
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March 25 - News
Although the Cypriots managed to come to an agreement with other European leaders, the deal leaves many questions unanswered and raises a tremendous amount of uncertainty, and...
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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 past two weeks have been very eventful for bank investors. Most got a great result from the boost many banks got after receiving high marks from the Fed's stress tests.
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March 25 - News
For most financial institutions, the Fed-mandated stress test and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review went pretty well, with prior year laggards Citigroup Inc.
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March 25 - News
Three of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (INDEXDJX:.DJI) most powerful companies experienced major turning points in their history on this day.
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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
Both Blackstone and Mr Icahn sent letters to Dell on Friday night, saying they are preparing formal bids, these people said, according to the Financial Times.
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March 25 - Hedge Funds
According to a Forbes article, the nation’s strongest and safest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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March 25 - News
It should come as no surprise that Iceland, a country that's happy to prosecute its own prime minister over gross negligence relating to actions leading up to the financial crisis...
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March 24 - News
The direction of worldwide stock markets rests on the negotiations taking place in the tiny nation of Cyprus right now.
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March 24 - News
The Federal Reserve recently released the results of its annual stress test, officially known as the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR).
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March 24 - News
Millions of Americans have been angry at big Wall Street banks ever since the financial crisis.
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March 24 - News
Warren Buffett is hands-down the most followed investor in the world. As the Oracle of Omaha, he has lead his firm, Berkshire-Hathaway Inc.
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March 23 - News
