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Banks Are Healthy. Why They’re Holding Back on Dividends.
Text size JPMorgan Chase held its dividends flat due to increasing capital requirements following the Federal Reserve’s stress test. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Banks may have gotten a clean bill of...
Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Boost Shareholder Payouts
The largest U.S. banks said they would increase payouts to shareholders after the Federal Reserve said the banks are able to keep lending in a severe hypothetical recession. Four of the six biggest ba...
Is Bank of America a buy or is there more pain ahead for BAC stock?
With the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) battle against inflation by raising the interest rates, financial stocks have had the spotlight put on them. One of the biggest banks, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), is ...
Bank of America and 4 More Financial Stocks for a Tough Market
Text size Bank of America is Wells Fargo’s top pick among the large U.S. banks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One couldn’t blame investors in the financial sector for feeling discouraged this year. Goi...
Which of Buffett’s bank stocks might make you the most money?
This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in B...
Preferred Stocks Have Plunged This Year. But There Are Opportunities If You Know Where to Look.
The preferred-stock market has suffered one of its worst selloffs in decades as yields on leading bank preferred issues have risen to about 6% from 4%. But with yields now at their highest levels in f...
Bank of America gets fined $10 million for illegally taking payments from customers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Wednesday it ordered Bank of America Corp. BAC, +4.01% to make a $10 million civil penalty and refund or cancel fees from unlawful garnishments and...
Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’
OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying. That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
Bank of America’s Results Are Better Than Expected: Here’s My Plan
On Monday morning, the nation’s second largest bank released the firm’s first quarter financial results. Those results appear to be somewhat better than some had expected after seeing seve...
BAC earnings 1Q 2022
Brian Moynihan, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp, speaks in New York City, September 25, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Bank of America posted first-quarter profit on Mo...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
Commodities Are Hot Right Now. But the Party May Be Over.
Text size Prices for industrial commodities such as copper wire have taken off. Dreamstime Investors have piled into commodities, sending their prices soaring, but the good times may be more or less o...
Alibaba Stock Stake Slashed by Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal
Text size Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha in 2019. JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / Getty Images Daily Journal , which Charlie Munger had served as chairman until rece...
The Fed’s plan to rapidly slash its balance sheet is out. Here’s what happens to money in the system.
Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s March meeting released on Wednesday detailed plans for shrinking its nearly $9 trillion balance sheet to help cool U.S. inflation running at 40-year highs, but tricky ...
U.S. government bonds just suffered their worst quarter of the past half century: Here’s why some investors may not be fazed
U.S. government bonds just finished their worst quarter since at least 1973, yet some investors aren’t likely to be put off from buying Treasurys again given rising risks of a U.S. recession within th...
Bank Earnings Are Coming. One Stock Analysts Like—and Another They Say to Sell.
Text size Analysts say Bank of America is positioned to do well in the current economy. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images With bank earnings coming in a few weeks, Bank of America is looking like a winner ...
Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market
Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...
Analysts see lowest grades for Bank of America and JPMorgan in Fed’s stress test
Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. emerged with the lowest marks among the overall passing grade for banks in the Fed’s annual stress test, analysts at Jefferies and Citigroup said Fri...