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Few investments at the moment make Wall Street squirm as much as European bank stocks. A contrarian with an appetite for risk might call that a reason to buy. Enlarge Image The European Central Bank might step in, which could trigger a stock rally.
May 25, 2012 at 20:57 | Source: Wall Street Journal
MADRID, May 25 (UPI) -- Estimates of what it will cost to rescue banks in Spain are rising, government officials and financial analysts said. The British newspaper The Guardian reported Friday some analysts estimate it will take $62 billion to $ ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:48 | Source: United Press International
China’s biggest banks may fall short of loan targets for the first time in at least seven years as an economic slowdown crimps demand for credit, three bank officials with knowledge of the matter said. A decline in lending in April and May ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Bloomberg
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- First he cried. Then Brian Banks – exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison – walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long. "This is the first ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:27 | Source: Huffington Post
(Reuters) - The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore. Bankers at smaller firms said some clients are flattered by the attention they are ...
May 25, 2012 at 20:50 | Source: Reuters
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com The first rule of ELA is you don’t talk about ELA. The European Central Bank is trying to limit the flow of information about so-called Emergency Liquidity Assistance, which is ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:14 | Source: Bloomberg
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase would have us believe that regulators’ attempts to clip the wings of financial companies are about as misguided as trying to curb spam by shutting down the Internet. To most Americans, a financial crisis that ...
May 23, 2012 at 22:25 | Source: New York Times
The first-quarter results compared to earnings of $26.3 billion in the fourth quarter, and $29.0 billion during the first quarter of 2011. As expected at this stage of the economic recovery, banks continued to see a major boost to earnings from ...
May 24, 2012 at 15:50 | Source: TheStreet.com
Idaho community banks improved the quality of their loan portfolios in the first quarter of 2012, helping produce their highest first-quarter profits since 2008. A quarterly report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows a slightly ...
May 25, 2012 at 21:26 | Source: Idaho Statesman
The story of Brian Banks, a former star middle linebacker at Long Beach Poly, is an incredible one. In 2002, Banks was preparing for his senior year, expected to star on the defensive side of the ball and fielding offers from top tier programs ...
May 27, 2012 at 00:09 | Source: ESPN