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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...
JPMorgan raises capital buffers after stress test and keeps third-quarter dividend of $1 a share
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.80% shares rose 0.3% in aftermarket trading on Monday after the bank said it will keep its third-quarter dividend at $1 a share as it channels more capital to complete...
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...
What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds
Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...
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...
Stock Market Has a Very Bad Week. Why It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better.
After a three-year hiatus, the Golden State Warriors are the best team in basketball again—and they had to navigate an injury-driven tumble from the top to the absolute bottom to do it. There’s a less...
There Might Be a Recession, but It Won’t Be Long, Wall Street Says
Text size Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman says he sees a 50% chance of a recession. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Fears about a possible recession sent stock markets into free fall on Monday as inves...
Exxon May Be Making ‘More Than God.’ But Apple and Alphabet Are More Profitable.
Text size President Biden, who his hurting politically due to high inflation, took a swipe at industry leader Exxon Mobil on Friday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Exxon Mobil may be making “more than God ...
The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.
Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...
Boeing Stock Might Be Finding a Bottom. What to Watch From Here.
Text size A Boeing 747 in Louisville, Kentucky, early this year. Jon Cherry/Getty Images Boeing ’s badly beaten-up stock might be nearly as weak as it will get. “The decline in Boeing ’s stock price h...
Cisco Systems’ Earnings Are Today. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Barclays analyst Tim Long says order growth at Cisco is likely to slow down. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images Wall Street is optimistic about Cisco Systems’ quarterly results, due after the c...
J.P. Morgan Says Buy Tencent and Alibaba. Why They’re Now Positive on Chinese Tech Stocks.
Text size Regulatory change had come sooner than the analysts had anticipated. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group saw their stock jump Tuesday after catching an upgrade...
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...
Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.
Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...
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...
Doug Kass: How Did Bank Stock Investors Get So Clueless?
Travelling with the herd is often harmful to your investment well being. Banks stocks have been among the worst-performing sectors in the last six months. Yet, the vast consensus view was that, in ...
JPM earnings 1Q 2022
JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that first-quarter profit fell sharply from a year earlier, driven by increased costs for bad loans and market upheaval caused by the Ukraine war. Here are the numbers: A...
JPMorgan Boosts Credit Reserves As Profits Tank, Jamie Dimon Warns About ‘Significant Challenges Ahead’
Topline Shares of JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, fell on Wednesday after the firm reported earnings which showed profits declined sharply from last year due to market upheaval caused...
Here’s the playbook if the rest of the world breaks free from the U.S. dollar, says Credit Suisse’s monetary plumbing guru
It’s pretty well accepted that no one knows as much about the plumbing of the world’s financial system as Zoltan Pozsar, global head of short-term interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, who was the ...
U.S. Banks Are a Bargain. Bank of America and 7 More Stocks to Buy.
Text size Bank of America says lenders with large loan books will be affected as the economy worsens. Dreamstime U.S. financial institutions are trading at bargain-basement prices and continue to pres...