Berkshire Made Big Bets on Citi, HP, and Paramount Stock. They Look Like Losers.

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said his company often buys equities before a market hits bottom. AFP via Getty Images When asked about Berkshire Hathaway ’s investment success at...

Fearing a hawkish Fed? Here’s what’s likely limiting more downside in the stock market, according to JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic.

The stock market has been under pressure since the inflation report for August came in surprisingly strong last week, but JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief market strategist, Marko Kolanovic, doesn’t s...

Preferred stocks can offer hidden opportunities for dividend investors. Just look at this JPMorgan Chase example.

This is shaping up to be a brutal year for bank stocks. But a deeper look can highlight an opportunity for income-seeking investors to make money on banks’ preferred stocks. But the S&P 500 SPX, +...

Citigroup Joins Industry Effort to Lend to People Without Credit Scores

Citigroup is joining a government-sponsored effort to expand access to credit in underserved communities. The bank is launching two pilot programs early next year under the Office of the Comptroller o...

Bank of America draws mixed reviews for zero-down-payment mortgages aimed at boosting Black and Hispanic home ownership

Bank of America Corp. is drawing a mixed reaction in social media to a zero-down-payment mortgage program aimed at bringing first-time home ownership within closer reach of more African American and H...

Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year

Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...

Zoom Video Stock Dives. Citi Says Lowered Guidance May Be ‘Too Optimistic.’

Text size Zoom cited soft performance in its online business, a segment focused on smaller businesses and the consumer. Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Zoom Video Communications stock dived Tuesday ...

Bed Bath & Beyond Clinches Loan Deal

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has found a financing source to shore up its liquidity as it tries to weather recent missteps, according to people familiar with the matter. The company on Tuesday told pros...

Banks Nearing $1 Billion Settlement Over Traders’ Use of Banned Messaging Apps

WASHINGTON—Many of Wall Street’s biggest banks are nearing agreements to pay as much as $200 million each and admit that their employees’ use of personal messaging apps such as WhatsApp violated regul...

PNC Financial Services Has Big Ambitions—and a 3.4% Dividend Yield

With the acquisition of the U.S. banking operations of Spain’s BBVA, PNC now has a presence in all of the top 30 markets in the U.S., including St. Louis. Peter Newcomb/Great Forest Park Balloon Race ...

This contrarian investor gave a timely warning for the last big tech top. He now sees the biggest drop of this bear market dead ahead.

When can we truly say goodbye to this bear market? While Bank of America’s global fund managers are no longer “apocalyptically bearish,” some on Wall Street remain wary. Add our call of the day to tha...

This rule with a perfect record says the market hasn’t bottomed, says Bank of America’s star analyst

Rules are there to be broken. That may be a standard mantra for anarchists. But for traders such thinking may prove to be dangerously dismissive. Investors therefore may like to consider the latest no...

Anshu Jain, former Deutsche Bank CEO in its trading heyday, dies at 59

Anshu Jain, Cantor Fitzgerald’s president and former CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2015, died Saturday five years after being diagnosed with duodenal cancer, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. He was...

Don’t Trust This Stock Market Rally. Strategists See More Trouble Ahead.

Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...

Don’t Trust This Stock Rally. Strategists See More Trouble Ahead for S&P 500.

Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...

Roku stock bounces sharply in wake of record decline

Roku Inc. shares plunged a record 23.1% in Friday’s session following a downbeat earnings report, but were looking to take back at some of those losses Monday with a double-digit gain. The stock ROKU,...

Housing affordability plunges to lowest level since 2006. The property market’s ‘great slowdown’ is here, Bank of America says

A “great slowdown” is happening in the U.S. housing market, a new report from Bank of America says, as mortgage originations shrink and spending on household items softens. Amid weak home sales number...

Stock Investors, After Brutal Stretch, Have Rarely Been This Pessimistic

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The S&P 500 Has a New Price Target. The Market Is Getting Dicey.

Text size Bank of America’s strategists believe that earnings forecasts will fall, bringing stock prices down with them. Amir Hamja/Bloomberg Bank of America strategists lowered their price targ...

JPMorgan Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

Text size Analysts expect JPMorgan Chase’s earnings to drop nearly 25% year over year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Another bank earnings season is upon us. JPMorgan Chase will step up to the pla...

Prosecutors Say JPMorgan Traders Scammed Metals Markets by Spoofing

CHICAGO—JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s precious-metals traders consistently manipulated the gold and silver market over a period of seven years and lied about their conduct to regulators who investigated ...

JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...

Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America Jason Alden/Bloomberg Text size Bank of America has emerged as one of the nation’s most resilient banks, thanks to CEO Brian Moynihan’s “responsible growth” stra...

Berkshire Hathaway Director Ron Olson Scooped Up Shares

Text size Attorney Ron Olson walks to a session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A longtime director of Berkshire Hathaway snapped up the stock...

Buffett Bought More of Occidental. Here’s What Happened With HP, Citi, Coke.

Text size Warren Buffett has losses as well as wins on his record of stock picking. AFP via Getty Images Billionaire investor Warren Buffett disclosed that he has increased his stake in Occidental Pet...

Banks Get Burned by Risky Debt, Imperiling Buyout Activity

By Laura Cooper July 3, 2022 9:03 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Investment banks are facing big losses on leveraged buyouts they agreed to finance before markets soured, further chilling the out...

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...

Citigroup Stock Is the Cheapest of the Big Banks. It’s Ready to Take Off.

Text size Even Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been buying Citi stock, a vote of confidence if there ever was one. Mario Tama/Getty Images Bank stocks have gotten hit as concerns about the U.S...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Equity Portfolio Is Down An Estimated $65 Billion So Far in This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway wasn’t a buyer of its own stock in April, but that might have changed with the market’s recent drop. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortun...

‘We’re in technical recession, but just don’t realize it’: Bank of America sees more ‘shocks’ to come

The shocks aren’t over. Get ready. That’s the timely Friday advice of Bank of America, delivered hours before worse-than-expected U.S. inflation data knocked the wind out of Wall Street and left inves...

Citigroup Trader Went Through Several Alerts on ‘Fat Finger’ Trade

A Citigroup Inc. C -2.10% trader who sent European stock indexes into free fall last month was working from home and went through several alerts before his order went live, people familiar with the ma...

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...