That's what Lanny Breuer did when he left his job at law firm Covington & Burling -- a law firm that worked for some of the nation's biggest banks -- to serve as the Assistant...
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April 12 - News
Unless something completely unforeseen happens -- which, of course, is always possible -- the focus of bank investors will be all earnings all the time over the next few weeks...
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April 11 - News
The best April Fool's jokes feel real. That's why we put so much time and effort into ours.
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April 11 - News
Earnings season has begun, and next Monday, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 11 - News
Last week at this time, I was writing about how Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) and the rest of the big-four banks were tanking for no apparent reason.
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April 10 - News
Closing in on the end of the trading day, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) share prices are up 0.33%.
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April 10 - News
The iPhone maker has previously used 8 Inc for the design of its stores, including the iconic glass cube on New York's 5th Avenue and Apple Inc.
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April 10 - News
Earnings season has begun, and on Friday JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 10 - News
Investors are now exactly two weeks away from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s fiscal second quarter earnings release.
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April 10 - News
Over the weekend, news got out that JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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April 9 - News
Last year was an excellent one for the U.S.
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April 9 - News
It wasn't all that long ago that I was positively bearish on Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), lumping it in with Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) as a financial leviathan still deeply damaged...
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April 9 - News
Warren Buffett was on CNBC a few weeks ago, and took an emailed question from a viewer.
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April 8 - News
I've been watching Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC)'s stock all morning, and I couldn't help but notice that, despite lots of trading activity, the bank hasn't really budged much...
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April 8 - News
In a previous article, I talked about the top position of one of Benjamin Graham's oldest students, Irving Kahn.
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April 8 - News
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
One of the high-quality hedge funds on our radar screens is Robert Pohly’s Samlyn Capital.
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April 8 - Hedge Funds
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
While catching up on what the billionaire hedge fund managers have been up to, I came across billionaire Louis Bacon's $15 billion hedge fund, Moore Capital.
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April 3 - Hedge Funds
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
Toronto-Dominion Bank (USA) (NYSE:TD) shareholders have witnessed a decrease in enthusiasm from smart money in recent months, and we're going to take a look at how some of its...
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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
If you'd ask most shareholders, hedge funds are viewed as unimportant, outdated investment vehicles of yesteryear.
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April 1 - News
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (ADR) (NYSE:MTU) was in 12 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012.
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April 1 - 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
To say that financial institutions in the United States have had a wild ride over the past few years would be an understatement.
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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
