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Wells Fargo plans to increase dividend
Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -1.28% said late Monday it expects to increase its third quarter dividend to 30 cents a share, from 25 cents a share, subject to approval by the company’s board at its...
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...
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...
A ‘summer of pain’ for stocks? Nasdaq Composite could plunge 75% from peak, and S&P 500 skid 45% from top, warns Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd
The carnage playing out in the U.S. stock market on Wednesday is likely an amuse-bouche compared with the devastation on the menu for the bulls in the coming months and years, Guggenheim Partners Glob...
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...
Wells Fargo WFC earnings Q12022
Wells Fargo signage on May 5th, 2021 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Wells Fargo on Thursday reported lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue amid a drop in mo...
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...
Inflation Is Here to Stay. How to Adjust Your Portfolio.
Inflation is rampant and ubiquitous today, from the gas pump to the grocery store. The U.S. consumer price index has quadrupled in the past year, from a 1.7% annual rate in February 2021 to 7.9% this ...
Wells Fargo to Pay to Settle Lawsuit Over Its 401(k) Plan
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a two-year-old case involving alleged self-dealing with the company’s 401(k) plan. Wells Fargo, which had previously sought to dismiss the lawsuit...
Best Buy Stock: Earnings Reveal Tough Christmas Quarter. Company Raises Dividend.
Text size Best Buy is contending with short-term headwinds, but the electronics retailer is expecting business to pick up by fiscal 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images Best Buy stock rose Thursday despite ...
Wells Fargo Won an Investor Dispute. Judge Says It Gamed the System.
In 2017, Brian Leggett, a Wells Fargo customer, filed an arbitration claim against the bank and one of its financial advisors, accusing them of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in how they hand...
Wells Fargo to raise dividend by 25%
Shares of Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +0.55% rose 0.4% in afternoon trading Tuesday, after the bank said it will raise its quarterly dividend by 25%. For shareholders of record on Feb. 4, the bank will...
Banks’ Earnings Show Lenders Aren’t All the Same. It’s Time to Pick and Choose.
Text size JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup both reported declines in trading revenue. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The time has come to take a stock-picking approach to investing in banks. That was the le...
Wells Fargo Stock Rises as Earnings Easily Top Estimates
Text size Wells Fargo bank David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Wells Fargo shares got a boost early Friday after the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings easily topped Wall Street’s expectations. Profits at the San...
Wells Fargo WFC earnings Q4 2021
Wells Fargo signage on May 5th, 2021 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Wells Fargo shares rose on Friday after the bank posted quarterly revenue that exceeded anal...
Wells Fargo, Bank of America draw price target hikes on bullish loan data
JPMorgan Chase analyst Vivek Juneja on Thursday lifted price targets on Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +2.13% and Bank of America BAC, +2.18% after bullish Fed data on loans. “Banks should start 202...
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...