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- AMCORE Financial, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jack Frank – Private Investor Jack Frank – Private Investor Are we expecting to receive any government funds to help stabilize to the issues that we have? William McManaman Let me try to...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-22
- Bush Could Bail Out Automakers, After All
- The cavalry might ride to the rescue of GM and Chrysler in the nick of time, after the Senate defeated a proposed auto industry bailout. President Bush may reconsider direct help. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Obama Stimulus Breakdown
- Fox Business News' Liz Clayman highlights parts of the Obama stimulus plan and tells Harry Smith what may be ahead for GM and Chrysler as they struggle to survive.
- Videos 2009-04-15
- Bank CEOs Get an Earful
- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill conveyed the public's outrage at how much bank CEOs profited while the economy tanked, only to beg for taxpayer money later, reports Michelle Gielan.
- Videos 2009-02-12
- Worst Case Banking Scenario
- Although the Federal Reserve will not release its bank stress test results for another 10 days, Anthony Mason reports data has already been released detailing how banks might react to a crisis.
- Videos 2009-04-24
- How Healthy Are the Big Banks?
- Several of the largest U.S. financial institutions are now clamoring to repay the TARP funds. Editor-at-large Jill Schlesinger talks to financial analyst John Keefe about the status of TARP repayments -- and the ongoing health worries affecting some of the big banks.
- Videos 2009-06-11
- No Return on Bailout Investment?
- A new report suggests taxpayers may not get back the money spent on bank bailouts. TARP's inspector general tells us why.
- Videos 2009-10-21
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- TARP Arm-Twisting Begins Again
- The effort to get the second half of the TARP approved (or more accurately, not force Obushma to nix a Congressional turndown) is all feeling a bit Groundhog Day-ish, without the backdrop of a Lehman collapse and AIG implosion to add a sense of urgency and high drama.The officialdom is...
- News items 2009-08-07
- TARP Inspector General Gives Program, And Treasury, Low Marks
- In his latest quarterly report card for the TARP program, released October 21, Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky provides a discouraging record. For the program itself, progress in spurring loan growth is slow, and in spite of news tidbits to the contrary, the return on taxpayers' investment has been poor....
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Treasury Earns 12% Return on First Few TARP Banks: Is That Enough?
- Banks that took Treasury TARP funding are eager to cut their ties to the program, in order to demonstrate their self-sufficiency, and regain full control of their institutions including how much they can pay the top brass. Eleven smallish banks have completely wound up their TARP participation, and the Congressional...
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- Treasury's Kashkari Eyes TARP Contingency Funds
- By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. banks are waiting for federal investment dollars, but the Obama administration needs to set aside cash for "one-off" rescues of major institutions, the man who runs the Treasury's $700 billion bailout fund said on Tuesday. Neel Kashkari, who will stay on...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Unwinding the TARP: Is Treasury Leaving Money on the Table?
- The Treasury Department announced on June 10 that a select group of 10 banks are in sufficiently robust health to repay the $68 billion they received in the Capital Purchase Program CPP portion of the TARP. But for them, TARP's not over: the Treasury still holds warrants to buy the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Congressional Oversight Board Slams TARP
- A congressional panel is set to release a scathing criticism of the TARP tarp: WSJ: "The panel's initial concerns about the [Troubled Asset Relief Program] have only grown, exacerbated by the shifting explanations of its purposes and the tools used by Treasury," said the draft report, which found that the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Profit on TARP Repayments Will Only Cancel Out Other Losses
- Chad Brand submits: Before we start jumping for joy that the government stands to make a nice profit on the $68 billion of TARP money that is now eligible to be repaid, let’s consider that the gains are only from relatively healthy institutions. By forcing each of the nation’s...
- External links 2009-06-11
- It's Hard to Get Out from Under that TARP
- CNBC commentator Jim Cramer got on his high-horse today about the insurers, Hartford Financial Services Group and Lincoln National, which took federal bailout money known as TARP. Cramer has a point, although, as BNET colleague Daniel Harrison points out, he does tend to go over the top....
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Taxpayer Trading Strategy: Short FDIC Long TARP
- The FDIC insurance fund that's intended to protect over $6 trillion of depositor assets, has dropped to the lowest level since the savings and loan crisis in 1993. That's not actually surprising or all that scary. Any of us could have done the math: the fund was worth over $45B last year...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- If TARP Was So Smart, Why Are So Many Banks Failing?
- So we taxpayers actually made money on the Troubled Asset Relief Program-at least so far. Goldman Sachs GS, JP Morgan JPM and others have repaid the loans from the government, with interest, and the equity stakes that we hold in Citigroup C and Bank of America BAC have appreciated since...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- CIT to Qualify for $2.33B in TARP Funds
- Commercial finance company CIT Group Inc. expects to receive $2.33 billion from the Treasury Department under the Troubled Assets Relief Program TARP — a result of the Federal Reserve preliminarily approving its application to convert to a bank holding company. Specifically, CIT has converted CIT Bank of Salt Lake City...
- News items 2009-08-07
- TARP Turning a Profit
- Believe it or not, Hank Paulson’s TARP investment in banks is turning a profit: New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg estimated that the [TARP] program has had a gain of about $8 billion in the past three months. "The TARP, for all its warts, has involved using tax...
- External links 2009-01-08
- 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
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