It looks like banks are on the way down this morning, as Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) and its compatriots face another round of new allegations of questionable practices.
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June 14 - News
Earlier this week, CoreLogic came out with some good news on the housing front: Rising home prices during the first quarter of this year have raised values, lifting about 850...
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June 14 - News
A good pay package should encourage managers to run companies correctly, to consider the long term and avoid taking excessive risks.
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June 14 - News
Though the market began the day in a slump over global economic concerns, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) is back in positive territory just after 11 a.m.
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June 13 - News
Billionaire David Tepper is the founder of Appaloosa Management, the $3 billion hedge fund based in New Jersey.
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June 13 - Hedge Funds
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. banking industry posted record profits at the end of the first quarter.
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June 13 - News
Like many of its peers, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) attended the Morgan Stanley Financials Conference in New York this week, where Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson ...
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June 13 - News
Large cap banks might continue to face headwinds as far as their revenues are concerned due to sluggish growth in loans.
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June 12 - News
Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) is up just barely in the first hour and a half of trading, after the pounding it took yesterday after a negative and widely read Bloomberg article made ...
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June 12 - News
It's common knowledge that overdraft fees on checking accounts have historically been moneymakers for banks, while hitting the pocketbooks of customers who are the least able ...
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June 12 - News
Dividend investing is easy. Investors just need to pick the companies with the largest payouts and the best dividend histories.
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June 11 - News
Today is not off to a good start for Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), as the nation's fourth-largest bank is riding the market wave down in the first two hours of trading, though...
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June 11 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average had no chance this morning.
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June 11 - News
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, U.S. banks earned profits of $40.3 billion in the first quarter of 2013, which showed growth of 15.8% year over year.
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June 11 - News
The past twelve months have been positive for financial companies, with finance becoming one of the best-performing industries with a return of 22.1% (DJ US Financials Index) ...
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June 11 - News
Warren Buffett knows a couple of things about investing, especially when it comes to the financial sector.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds
Cross-selling sounds like the perfect cure for banks still ailing from the financial crisis.
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June 10 - News
In February, the nation's five largest mortgage banks, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Ally Financial (NASDAQOTH:ALFI), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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June 10 - News
The financial sector has been consistently resilient through the last few years.
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June 10 - News
Investors want yield, and banks want to give it to them.
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June 10 - News
Billionaire Stephen Mandel has some $17 billion in assets under management, and founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997.
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June 10 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average without any consumer-facing industrial company? The venerable index found itself in a bind in mid-2009, as General Motors Company (NYSE...
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June 10 - News
Toronto-Dominion Bank (USA) (NYSE:TD) was in 10 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March. TD shareholders have witnessed a decrease in hedge fund sentiment of late.
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June 10 - News
Fellow Fools, operating under the assumption you can't properly evaluate a company as an investment if you don't know what makes that company tick, for the last few weeks we've...
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June 10 - News
Warren Buffett likes special businesses.
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June 7 - News
The U.S. economy continues to dig itself out of the hole caused by the 2008-2009 financial crisis and ensuing recession, the worst the country saw since the Great Depression.
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June 7 - News
At the opening bell, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) was down 2.26% for the week, riding the general wave of market pessimism and some unwelcome news from the Friday previous.
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June 7 - News
For most companies, gaining membership among the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) marks the pinnacle of their histories of achievement.
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June 7 - News
Banks are grappling with the reality of simultaneously implementing two watershed regulatory reforms: Dodd-Frank and Basel III.
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June 6 - News
The "Too Big to Fail" theory states that some financial institutions are so large that their failure will have a terrible effect on the national economy.
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June 6 - News
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (ADR) (NYSE:MTU) was in 8 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March.
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June 6 - News
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) was one of the biggest losers during the past two days of the market's pullback -- at least when it comes to banks.
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June 6 - News
My fellow Fools, operating under the assumption you can't properly evaluate a company as an investment if you don't know exactly what makes that company tick, last week we kicked...
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June 6 - News
In the financial blogosphere, there are lots of facts and figures for Citigroup Inc.
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June 6 - News
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) is riding the general wave of sector and market pessimism today, with the stock down a whopping 2.03% about two hours into trading.
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June 5 - News
After a quick spike in early trading, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) investors quickly started dumping shares.
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June 5 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on the decline again today as investors try to sort out the meaning of conflicting economic data.
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June 5 - News
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is taking an aggressive stand in Africa.
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June 5 - News
I am convinced that financial companies are the place to be when an economy starts growing again.
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June 5 - News
Birds of a feather flock together. And that adage was on display today as the Big Four banks struggled to maintain their altitude.
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June 4 - News
It's a scary cyber-world out there, and fear concerning Internet security is one of the top reasons that bank customers avoid mobile banking.
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June 3 - News
News broke on Friday that Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) may have to go back into court to refight a case that could cost it $8.3 billion.
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June 3 - News
Bearing that less-obvious-than-one-might-think bit of investing wisdom in mind, today we're going to take a look at Citigroup Inc.
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June 3 - News
If you've followed the tale of Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) since the financial crisis, you know that there are plenty of shortcomings that the bank would like to rectify.
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May 31 - News
Over the past few years, the U.S. has seen a veritable renaissance in oil production.
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May 31 - News
As the angst regarding the status of the Federal Reserve's QE3 program continues to roil markets, some brilliant news has been leaking out regarding the biggest U.S. banks.
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May 30 - News
Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) is on another run this morning as more positive legal news gives investors another sense of relief.
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May 30 - News
In mid May, Capital Growth Management, a fund managed by Ken Heebner, filed its 13F with the SEC.
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May 30 - Hedge Funds
The debate over whether the nation's largest banks are too big to fail rages on, as does the question of just how much in implicit subsidies these banks enjoy because of this ...
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May 30 - News