Resources
BNET Business Dictionary
- Financial
- relating to finance
- Financial definition on BNET »
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Is American Express Worth the Risk?
- Ockham Research submits: One of the major developing stories this week is the conversion of American Express AXP to a bank holding company in order to receive funds from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). This situation is similar to the Fed’s decision to allow the immediate conversion...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Is State Street's Stock Price Decline Justified?
- Ockham Research submits: State Street Corporation STT began its reduction in force over the last couple of days. Not the first Boston behemoth to cut its work force since the global downturn in financial services, but a 6% reduction is no small amount. With the removal of...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Goldman Results Forecast Trouble for Morgan Stanley
- Ockham Research submits: Goldman Sachs GS reported a wider-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss as virtually no segment of its business was unscathed by the credit crisis. The company reported a quarterly loss of $2.12 billion or $4.97 per share, the first quarterly loss in the company’s history as a...
- External links 2008-12-16
- State Street Proves There's No Such Thing as a Safe Financial Stock
- Ockham Research submits: State Street Corp. STT had a horrendous day of trading Tuesday thus far as its shares are off by more than 50%. The Boston-based bank, which handles custodian responsibilities for many institutions and mutual funds, as well as other money management services, reported before the open...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Are Banks Stemming Growth Despite TARP?
- Ockham Research submits: While the deployment of the second iteration of TARP is being discussed on Capitol Hill, there were a couple of very distressing pieces of news that I read Monday. The first piece from the Wall Street Journal showed that based on banks' own reports, 10 of...
- External links 2009-01-27
- Citi, Bowing to Pressure, Doubles Down
- Ockham Research submits: Citigroup C today bowed to fierce political pressure and will increase its lending by $36.5 billion over the next few months, with the bulk of those loans going towards mortgages. Citi and other banks have been widely criticized for significantly decreasing their outstanding loans since...
- External links 2009-02-03
- Citi Belatedly Learns to Play the Public Relations Game
- Ockham Research submits: Citigroup C Tuesday relented to fierce political pressure and will increase its lending by $36.5 billion over the next few months, with the bulk of those loans going towards mortgages. Citi and other banks have been widely criticized for significantly decreasing their outstanding loans since receiving...
- External links 2009-02-03
- AIG and Hank: The Divorce Is Final
- Ockham Research submits: Hank Greenberg, the long time leader of insurance giant [[AIG]], is reportedly suing the company as he believes mismanagement and even fraud have cost him $2 billion personally. The financial media has jumped on this story with vigor as it purportedly entails anger, greed, and...
- External links 2009-03-03
- GE Gets 'Sticky Note of Doom' - FBN Interview with Ockham CEO
- Ockham Research submits: This morning, Ockham CEO Christian Ward was interviewed by Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne about the plight of General Electric GE. As everyone has noticed in the last few months the GE stock has come under increased pressure as GE Capital is subject of much...
- External links 2009-03-05
- What's a Dollar Worth? More Than Citi
- Ockham Research submits: A share of Citigroup C has crossed an almost unimaginable threshold, going below a dollar. This is the first time in Citi’s formerly proud history that the company has stooped to the status of a “penny stock”. Matt Nesto broke the news at 11:27...
- External links 2009-03-05
- Wells Fargo: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- Ockham Research submits: Wells Fargo joining the ranks of Citigroup, GE, a list of financial companies which recently announced dividend cuts, and investors are having a positive reaction with shares up 9% in pre-market trading after Wells Fargo slashed its dividend by 85%. Cutting it from 34 cents a...
- External links 2009-03-06
- Bank of America: Due for a Rebound or Just Too Risky?
- Ockham Research submits: On Tuesday’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer discussed the technical versus the fundamental reasoning behind buying Bank of America BAC. Cramer generally relies much more heavily on fundamental analysis, as does Ockham, but we both recognize that there is value in reading the charts correctly. TheStreet.com’s technical...
- External links 2009-03-11
- AIG Bonuses Draw Abundant Anger
- Ockham Research submits: The AIG AIG bonus issue is attracting a lot of headlines right now as President Obama is calling for them to be rescinded. He is calling on the Treasury to “pursue every legal avenue” to block the $165 million in bonuses. Furthermore, New York...
- External links 2009-03-16
- Why Has AIG's Stock Risen So Rapidly?
- Ockham Research submits: If you are looking for an article with details regarding the latest drama on AIG AIG and the bonus scheme, stop reading. With AIG in the news so much in the last few days, almost exclusively in a negative light, very quietly the stock is...
- External links 2009-03-19
- JPMorgan Will Help Extend the Rally - Cramer
- Ockham Research submits: “Then, there is JP Morgan, a stock that I own for my charitable trust Actionalertplus.com. Single-most important stock in the Dow because we need a bank that’s strong enough to be able to buy toxic assets and take advantage of the wreckage to sell failed banks....
- External links 2009-03-24
- Credit Suisse Asking Shareholders to Get Aggressive
- Ockham Research submits: “We have Credit Suisse trading down by 2%. It’s had a strong start to the interestingly enough, it will ask shareholders for the right to raise money to go on the acquisition trail. Much more aggressive town out of Credit Suisse today.” by Ockham Research
- External links 2009-03-24
- Cramer: Money Is Safest with State Street, Bank of New York
- Ockham Research submits: “If the Fed moved from strict mark to market accounting, the biggest beneficiaries may not be the huge banks that rallied so hard. It could be Bank of New York one of the two companies that have otherwise basically no mortgage exposure so if the accounting...
- External links 2009-03-31
- Kimco Realty Shores Up the Balance Sheet
- Ockham Research submits: Kimco Realty KIM is getting a nice boost today form some measures to strengthen the balance sheet. Shares have soared more than 20% on news that the company will be hacking its dividend by 86% to 6 cents in order to conserve capital in the...
- External links 2009-04-03
- A Cool $200 Billion for Bank of America?
- Ockham Research submits: “This is what we’re talking about, a report out of Oppenheimer this morning talking about a slew of the banks, particular Bank of America saying they need to raise $36.6 billion dollars in capital. That’s what they will need in equity to bring its capital ratios...
- External links 2009-04-08
- Wells Fargo: Housing a Strength Again
- Ockham Research submits: Staggering. Wells Fargo WFC, which isn’t officially reporting earnings for another two weeks, announced today that the first quarter has been an exceptional one for the bank. Wells Fargo predicted that first quarter earnings will be about 55 cents per share, which is more...
- External links 2009-04-09
- << Previous
- page 1 of 3
- Next >>
Refining Tags
- Citigroup Inc. (9 results)
- Bank of America Corp. (7 results)
- American International Group Inc. (5 results)
- Wells Fargo & Co. (5 results)
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (5 results)
- F.C.C. Co. Ltd. (3 results)
- TNK-BP (3 results)
- BP Plc (3 results)
- BG Group plc (3 results)
- Deutsche Bank AG (3 results)
- BB&T Corp. (3 results)
