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
On a day when the financial sector, and banks in particular, are trading lower, shares of Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) are continuing their impressive post-stress test rally...
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March 19 - News
As trading closed on Friday, shares in Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) were at $47.40, up 0.81% on the day.
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March 19 - News
With all of the positive news coming from the stock market within the past two weeks -- especially the meteoric rise of the Dow Jones Industrial Average -- investors may have ...
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March 18 - News
Last week saw a party-hearty atmosphere for the overall market, and financials in particular.
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March 18 - 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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March 18 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average made a big change on March 17, 1997.
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March 18 - News
The results of the latest banking stress test were strange for many as the score sheets posted by the American central bank clearly marked Citigroup Inc.
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March 18 - News
The release of the Fed's second Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review test was a positive note for investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
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March 17 - News
This was a big week for all of the big banks.
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March 15 - News
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting a 10-day record with its continued gains, the markets have been on point as investors flood the Street.
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March 15 - News
Female leaders have made big news lately. Yahoo! Inc.
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March 15 - News
This time last week, bank investors were reveling in the results of the Dodd-Frank stress tests, which showed that most major U.S.
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March 15 - News
The changes that the Federal Reserve made to its annual stress tests worked out very well for American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), which announced late yesterday that the Fed...
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March 15 - News
On the back of yesterday's gains, stocks opened moderately lower this morning, with the S&P 500 (S&P Indices:.INX) and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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March 15 - News
The next few months are going to be tough for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) investors, as if the last few haven't been tough enough.
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March 15 - News
Despite positive news on the job front this morning, there's palatable angst underlying shares of the banks today, as investors wait to learn which of the nation's 18 largest ...
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March 14 - News
Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced the results from part one of its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, known informally as "stress tests." For Citigroup Inc...
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March 14 - News
During the boom of the U.S.
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March 13 - News
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), known simply as USB to most people, is the fifth largest bank in the United States with assets of $354 billion.
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March 13 - News
The day before the Federal Reserve releases part two of its stress-test results, which will tell investors what the central bank thinks of proposed capital actions, shares in ...
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March 13 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on the verge of its hottest winning streak in years.
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March 13 - News
Last week's release from the Federal Reserve from part one of its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (aka, stress tests) was a big day for the nation's banks.
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March 13 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading within a tight range today, and as of noon it sits less than four points above breakeven.
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March 13 - News
Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced the results from part one of its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, known informally as "stress tests." While there were a...
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March 13 - News
Investors in the nation's second largest lender, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) , have patiently waited for tangible evidence of the bank's hard work over the last three years...
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March 13 - News
This Thursday is arguably the biggest day of the year for bank investors.
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March 13 - News
Only a company that is "tough as nails" survives a recession as great as the one that we went through, I am not going to lie 2008 was tough but Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) got...
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March 13 - News
There are many indicators investors can use to analyze the equity markets. A couple of the most underrated are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." Today, we'll show you ...
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March 12 - News
