(Source: Seeking Alpha) – I normally go with the flow, but when it comes to the money center banks like Bank of America (BAC), I’m going to take a very contrarian view. Money center banks are wildly popular with both [...]
HONG KONG/DUBAI, Aug 10 (Source: Reuters By Denny Thomas and Dinesh Nair) – Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has held exploratory talks with the principal investment funds of Kuwait and Qatar about selling part of its stake in China Construction [...]
NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Source: Reuters By Joseph A. Giannone) – With Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) stock in freefall, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan moved to reassure employees the beleaguered bank was on the right path and could weather the [...]
(Source: New York Times By ANTONY CURRIE and ROBERT COLE) – Bank of America is leading banks back into the mortgage abyss. The nation’s largest financial institution by assets shed over $16 billion of market value on Monday as its [...]
(Source: Howe Street by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock) – The Congressional unlimited bankroll guarantee of Fannie Mae at the insistence of the Fed has just cost US taxpayers another huge chunk of money.
Aug. 06 (Source: By Christine Harvey, The Seattle Times) – Washington state has taken on a subsidiary of Bank of America, charging it with illegally foreclosing on thousands of homeowners in the last three years.
(Source: By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times) – Bank of America Corp. lost a fifth of its stock value in a general market rout amid heightened concerns about its ability to get ahead of the bad mortgages it holds, as [...]
(Source: USA Today By Bloomberg News) – The European debt crisis is poised to flood U.S. banks with something they don’t want and can’t use: more money.
(Source: Reuters By Jonathan Stempel) – The insurer AIG is suing Bank of America Corp to recover more than $10 billion of losses from a “massive fraud” on mortgage debt, deepening the morass of litigation faced by the largest U.S. [...]
(Source: The Washington Post By Cezary Podkul) – Bank of America is pursuing a settlement with state and federal officials that would shield the company from lawsuits over its mortgage practices in exchange for reducing the amount that struggling homeowners [...]
(Source: The Washington Post By Cezary Podkul) – Bank of America is pursuing a settlement with state and federal officials that would shield the company from lawsuits over its mortgage practices in exchange for reducing the amount that struggling homeowners [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Karen Gullo) – Investors suing Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and more than a dozen other underwriters to force the buyback of $6.7 billion in downgraded mortgage securities have defeated efforts by the banks in pretrial skirmishes [...]
FORTUNE (Source: CNNMoney By Abigail Field) – Investors in mortgage-backed securities who got cleaned out during the housing bust aren’t going to take their losses lying down. The first act of investor revolt was organized by Kathy Patrick, a little-known [...]
(Source: By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times) – Bank of America Corp.’s chief executive is out to convince Wall Street that he’s finally bringing under control the financial disaster caused by the bank’s acquisition of mortgage goliath Countrywide Financial [...]
(Source: Forbes) – Default rates fell again in June and credit card companies are getting a boost to their bottom line. Bank of America, Chase and Discover showed significant improvement in defaults. Cardholders are also using their credit cards more. [...]
(Source: BusinessWeek By Hugh Son) – Under Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America (BAC) is spending billions of dollars to deal with the aftermath of the housing bust, reaching settlements with mortgage bond investors and insurers and [...]
(Source: By David McLaughlin and Jody Shenn) – Investors in Countrywide Financial Corp. mortgage bonds may be owed three times or more of what they’re being offered in an $8.5 billion settlement with Bank of America Corp. (BAC), a group [...]
(Source: IFR Keith Mullin) – Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, which both reported Q2 numbers yesterday, have, along with the rest of the industry, taken a beating in the stock market this year. GS’s earnings clearly weren’t what the [...]
(Source: Reuters By Joe Rauch) – Two of the largest U.S. consumer banks said on Tuesday they expect new limits on debit card fees to have less of an impact than originally projected, after regulators softened the rules.
(Source: DealB%%k By ERIC DASH) – Even as the big banks stanch their losses, they are reckoning with an unfortunate reality: the anemic recovery is hurting their results.
CHARLOTTE, NC (Source: New York Post) – Bank of America reported Tuesday a second-quarter net loss of $8.8 billion, or 90 cents a share, against a year-earlier profit of $3.1 billion, or 27 cents a share.
(Source: Bloomberg By Hugh Son) – Bank of America Corp. (BAC) may have to build its capital cushion by $50 billion and renege again on Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan’s pledge to raise the firm’s dividend as mortgage losses [...]
(Source: North Jersey News BY RICHARD NEWMAN) – Luis Morales, owner of Andre’s Wine and Spirits in Leonia, opened a business checking account at the Bank of America branch across the street from the shop when he acquired the business [...]
(Source: yourdailynewsfix) – Bank of America has agreed to pay $8.5 billion to resolve claims that the financial and insurance company sold mortgage-backed securities that are of low-quality before the collapse of the housing market.
(Source: DealB%%k New ork Times By ERIC DASH) – Although banks have been cranking out big profits for several consecutive quarters as the spill of red ink from bad loans slowed, they have had little to show when it comes [...]
NEW YORK (Source: Boston Globe) – Six federal home loan banks are seeking to join a case in which a judge will decide whether to approve an $8.5 billion settlement by Bank of America Corp. with Bank of New York [...]
(Source: North Jersey BY RICHARD NEWMAN) – Bank of America, which has been a lightning rod for criticism and lawsuits amid the nation’s worst-ever home foreclosure crisis, wants to call attention to itself — for a good reason. The country’s [...]
(Source: Barrons) – There has been a confluence of issues surrounding the largest mortgage players over the last few weeks.
NEW YORK (Source: The Wall Street Journal BY DAVID BENOIT) — MBIA Inc. agreed to drop a lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch over $5.7 billion in credit default protection the bond insurer underwrote for the bank’s [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Dawn Kopecki) – Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and three other U.S. mortgage servicers are in advanced talks to resolve state and federal claims over faulty foreclosures, according to two people briefed [...]
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