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
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
Today was a return to record highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI), which again chose to ignore uncertainties in Europe to focus instead on strong economic...
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March 28 - 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
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
Warren Buffett’s endless appetite for money took another turn when Bloomberg reported that he agreed to convert his Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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March 27 - News
Once again, the downsizing of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) has resulted in gains for another bank.
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March 27 - News
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) announced that it had come to a new deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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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
New issues in U.S. corporate bond markets topped $38 billion last week, with four borrowers taking on more than $3 billion each to account for more than a third of the total.
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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
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 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
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
Most investors see the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) as among the safest blue-chip stocks in the entire market.
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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
The world's first modern commercial elevator went into service in a New York City department store on March 23, 1857. Designed by Elisha Graves Otis and installed at the E.V.
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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
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
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
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
The Cypress situation has been a thorn in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI)'s side for much of the week.
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March 22 - News
As such, we can be forgiven for sometimes thinking they constitute the entire investable-banking universe.
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March 22 - News
I was surprised when I read that BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT) didn't pass the Fed's recent round of stress tests.
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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
All the optimism surrounding the run to record market highs has worn off today as stocks dive and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) plunges into...
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March 21 - News
It’s no secret that retail investors make an abundance of costly mistakes. The sad thing is that very few actually learn from these mistakes.
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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
In the space of just four business days, the country's biggest bank has had its capital return plan sent back to the drawing board, been burned at the stake by Senate inquisitors...
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March 21 - News
Amid an ongoing global equities boom that has seen the major indices rise by 55 percent or more since their early 2009 lows, it somehow remains possible to spot old-fashioned ...
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March 20 - News
I like to check on the market's most shorted companies from time to time.
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March 20 - 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
In 2012, fueled by historically low interest rates and stabilizing home prices, Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC)'s mortgage banking unit churned out an industry-leading $524 billion...
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March 20 - News
Oil prices were on the move today as fear rose over the potential for the events in Cyprus to damage the European economy, and after Schlumberger yesterday reported weaker-than...
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March 19 - News
Investors' attention routinely vacillates between domestic and international events, and today's stock market action shows that dynamic clearly.
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March 19 - News