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What Big Bank Stock Has The Largest Price Gain In 2012?
After getting pounded during 2011, bank stocks have soared this year, especially after the Federal Reserve completed its “stress tests” and said that almost every big bank could survive “extremely...
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Bank Stress Tests Viewed As Fed Deception By Critics
Every banker knows that public confidence in the banking industry is essential. With the banking industry approaching a near meltdown last year, the Federal Reserve decided to conduct a series of...
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Bank of America Executives Win, Shareholders Lose – It’s Not Supposed To Work...
Most shareholders understand that an investment in a public company entails risk – that’s what capitalism is all about. Well managed companies with great products generally wind up enriching...
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Credit Ratings of 15 Global Banks Cut In Largest Downgrades Since 2007
In the most sweeping credit downgrades since 2007, Moody’s Investor Service lowered the credit ratings of fifteen global banks, including the five largest banks in the United States. The scope of the...
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Ridiculous Divergence Between Bank CEO Pay And Shareholder Returns
The wide divergence between bank CEO compensation and shareholder returns is an embarrassment to the capitalist notion of linkage between performance and pay. Shareholders of banking stocks have seen...
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Banks Are A Financial Disaster For Both Shareholders And Depositors
In days gone by, shareholders of large banks viewed their investments as a source of income via dividends and potential capital gains via share appreciation. In days gone by, depositors viewed banks...
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Owning Bank Stocks Might Be Better Than Keeping Cash In The Bank
The financial meltdown that began five years ago resulted in widespread financial devastation for millions of Americans. Retirement and stock portfolios were decimated while real estate values...
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Bank Stocks Were 2012′s Best Investment – Now What?
Bank stocks had few friends during 2011 during which time financial stocks plunged by over 18%, even as the S&P 500 eked out a slim total return of 2.1%. As financial stocks dropped last year to...
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2012 Bank Failures Lowest Since 2008 As Regulators Close 51 Banks
During the past five years we have witnessed the greatest financial turmoil since the Great Depression. Hundreds of giant bank failures rocked the nation, real estate values crashed, trillions of...
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The Rally In Big Bank Stocks May Be Over
For over the past year, the stocks of big banks have rallied significantly. Lower loan losses, a stabilization of the real estate market and a settlement with the government over shortcomings in...
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Hedge Fund Makes Huge Bet On Flagstar Bancorp
Would you invest almost all of your money in Flagstar Bancorp? Managing investment risk through diversification is often cited as one of the most important rules for successful investment. The future...
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