Net interest margin, or NIM, takes the money a bank earns in interest from its loans and investments, subtracts the interest it pays out on its deposits, and divides the result...
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August 17 - News
If you're like most people, you probably have at least one checking account, a savings account or two, and a couple of credit cards -- possibly up to three or four. I fancy myself...
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August 12 - News
There's a catch-22 in the business model of most banks.
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August 1 - News
No matter how careful you are with your finances or how much effort you put into switching banks to avoid fees, eventually you will be hit with some kind of fee.
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July 31 - News
What does this mean? It means we - the consumer - are swiping our cards again, and more often as time goes on! I suppose you might want to own a company to benefit from this macro...
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July 29 - News
Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) shares hit an all-time high on July 8. The other three large U.S.
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July 29 - News
Earnings season is in full flow now, and it’s the turn of banking heavyweights such as Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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July 16 - News
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF)'s famous slogan is "what's in your wallet?", but I'm less concerned with what's in your wallet and more concerned with what's in your portfolio...
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July 15 - News
I tread carefully in writing this article because whenever anyone discusses the pseudo-religious issue of investing fundamentals and/or why markets move, he is usually met with...
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July 3 - News
The U.S. banking sector is facing more and more stringent capital requirements, the latest of which is the two-fold rise in the leverage ratio minimum to 6%.
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July 2 - News
PNC stock rushed up 19% during the current year. The bank faces a major decision.
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June 27 - News
This should be especially familiar to investors in Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) stock.
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June 24 - News
Just in case you didn’t like the more traditional credit cards that I recommended in the first part of this article, here are some other, less well-known credit card companies...
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June 20 - News
With the strong gains in financials so far this year, it may seem like the sector may be running out of gas.
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June 19 - News
If investors could take every earnings report at face value, picking stocks would be a lot easier.
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June 12 - News
I know what you are thinking, and believe me, I find it hard to believe as well.
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June 11 - News
But sometimes the exuberance for it turns into cavalier spending habits that can take years to repair.
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June 3 - News
Can you believe banks would top a list of companies with overpaid CEOs? Right, that's not rocket science.
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June 3 - News
Legg Mason Capital is a publicly traded mutual fund, overseeing some $3.8 billion.
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May 28 - Hedge Funds
If you'd ask most stock holders, hedge funds are seen as slow, outdated financial tools of the past.
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May 24 - News
In the financial world, there are tons of methods investors can use to monitor stocks. Some of the most underrated are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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May 23 - News
Textbooks will tell you that economies work in concert with some kind of ideal and consistent. Unfortunately, it never quite works out like that.
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May 22 - News
I would rather forget last month. After nine months of gains, I hit a nasty double digit loss.
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May 15 - News
While some consumers may be shying away from credit, others are continuing to see the benefits, and that's keeping revenue and profits high for large payment processing companies...
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May 6 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC), Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE:CS), Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), Capital...
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May 2 - Hedge Funds
Recent filings with the SEC show that two members of Capital One Financial Corp.
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May 1 - Insider Trading
The world has gone mobile.
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April 26 - News
Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) – Shares in Overstock.com, Inc.
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April 19 - News
Having worked for a bank for over 10 years, I follow quite a few financial stocks. There were two things that my years in banking taught me. First, change is constant.
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April 19 - News
As the US economy recovers, mainly thanks to the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program, some sectors of the economy have great opportunities ahead.
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April 16 - News
Another tax season is nearly behind us. If you're slated to receive a refund, you may wonder how to best use the money.
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April 13 - News
Earnings season has begun, and next Monday, Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE:SCHW) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 11 - News
We all procrastinate from time to time. That's OK with relatively trivial things in life, like taking out the trash and unloading the dishwasher.
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April 9 - News
Finding the best money market rates available for your savings can help you earn a lot more interest than settling for whatever your local bank pays you.
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April 9 - News
When we look at stocks, we primarily do so from a value perspective.
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April 3 - News
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF) was in 58 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012.
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March 26 - News
Today, let's look at Lone Pine Capital, founded by Steve Mandel in 1997. Prior to that, Mandel was a managing director at Tiger Management.
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March 24 - Hedge Funds
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
Earlier this week, I took a look at how the recently expanded exchange-traded fund partnership between Fidelity and BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) affects investors today.
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March 19 - News
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF) is well-known as one of the leading credit-card issuers in the world, and for good reason.
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March 19 - News
This year’s NCAA men’s basketball tourney tips off Mar.
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March 18 - News
To say it's been a busy two weeks for banks would be an understatement.
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March 18 - News
A recent article from PCMag caught my eye because of the ramifications it could have for the banking industry.
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March 17 - News
During the boom of the U.S.
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March 13 - News
Last week, the Federal Reserve released the first part of the annual banking stress test results, which examined the impact of a severe economic downturn on the largest U.S.
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March 13 - News
Stress-test results have been saturating the media this week as the big banks show off their hearty capital reserves and ability to withstand an economic pseudo-armageddon.
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March 13 - News
Since its spinoff from Morgan Stanley in 2007, Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) has done very well for its shareholders recently, having rebounded from its financial crisis...
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March 7 - News
The consumer financial segment is on the rebound.
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March 2 - News
We have spent the last couple weeks studying 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors. 13Fs disclose many long equity positions in U.S.
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February 27 - Hedge Funds
