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The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures.   |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Countrywide's School of Higher Earning The mortgage lender's CEO stands to make a mint in severance if the Bank of America deal goes through. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Mozilo's a Pretty Sorry Guy Countrywide's CEO fails to apologize for the right thing to the wrong crowd. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Maria Bartiromo |
The Heat On Countrywide Embattled Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo answers critics who claim the lender helped bring on the housing crisis. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Mozilo Forced to Dump More Countrywide Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo sells stock as part of his 10b-5 plan; meanwhile, employees are forced into loyalty oaths. |
BusinessWeek
September 11, 2006 |
Phantom Profits Countrywide Financial has been among the most aggressive underwriters of option ARMs. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Cuddles up to Countrywide After one of the most volatile weeks Countrywide's stock has ever had, Bank of America agrees to purchase it for around $4 billion, or around 90% less than its 52-week high. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Countrywide Comforts Investors ... to a Point Countrywide's third-quarter earnings had investors celebrating, but what's the bigger picture? |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bank of America Tosses Countrywide a Lifeline A $2 billion investment will help keep Countrywide Financial chugging along. Though helpful to Countrywide, the investment wasn't an overly bullish note for the stock. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns Gets Sweeter JPMorgan ups its bid for the embattled investment bank to $10 per share, a five-time jump above its original, paltry offer. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Morgan Housel |
3 CEOs Who Should Go Nobody is perfect, but these guys should be shown the door. Now. Read on about Angelo Mozilo... James Tobin... John Mackey... |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Countrywide's Cheap Financial services firm Countrywide looks undervalued. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Welcome Home, Countrywide May your new life be jollier than before. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2006
Michael Leibert |
More Happy Bankers at Bear The smallest of the big, publicly traded securities houses, Bear Stearns posted its best quarter ever, with net income of $563 million or $4 per diluted share, a 38% increase from the fourth quarter of 2005. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2008
Buck Hartzell |
Fool Blog: Invest Like a Second-Grader Market wisdom from a 7-year-old. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Clouds Gather Over Countrywide The problems continue and that doesn't look good, in Bank of America's eyes. |
Fast Company
February 2009 |
CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Don't Let Bear Stearns' Price Fool You Since news of Bear Stearns' deal with JPMorgan shares have been trading higher than the proposed $2 price. Why? |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
R.I.P., Countrywide Bank of America plans on ditching the Countrywide name in favor of its own less-tarnished label. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
U.S. Banker
May 2007
Karen Krebsbach |
Executive Pay, Still in the Hot Seat Shareholders are trying to gain more influence on executive pay as more resolutions hit the agenda at firms' annual meetings. But passage is proving to be tough. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2007
Goldstein & Henry |
On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
No Hibernating at Bear Stearns Investment banks have been hot. The run might not be over yet and Bear Stearns is a generally risk-averse company that still has some global expansion potential. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Please, Throw the Book at This Guy The SEC has filed a civil fraud suit against former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, as well as two other former executives. Insider trading charges may also be on the table for Mozilo. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
What's Your Share? Here's a new way to look at a company as a possible investment: How much of the CEO's salary are you paying? |
The Motley Fool
June 6, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: It was a roller-coaster in subprime land this past week. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Many are speculating whether it's time to get back into financial stocks. |
Registered Rep.
August 4, 2008
Nancy N. DiCostanzo |
The Bear Talks The first book about the demise of Bear Stearns, titled Bear Trap, is to be published in September by Brick Tower Books and has been co-authored by an anonymous former Bear exec. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rumors Send Countrywide to the Chopping Block After shedding about 80% of its value in 2007, Countrywide Financial falls another 25% when rumors of imminent bankruptcy spread. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Classy Goldman Shows How It's Done Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's largest investment bank, is the shining light in an ugly industry. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Countrywide Falls Off the Cliff What a difference a year can make. The embattled mortgage lender has announced a fourth-quarter loss of $422 million, compared with a gain of $622 million for the same period last year. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Are Winning ... Slowly CEO overcompensation is gradually being challenged in corporate America by shareholders, through resolutions and annual meeting proposals. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Throwdown: Bank of America vs. JPMorgan Let's compare these two megabanks to see which is the stronger company. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Jody Shenn |
Bear Stearns Alumni Are All Over Wall Street The financial crisis hasn't damaged the careers of many former Bear Stearns executives who have found new high-level jobs on Wall Street. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2006
Alex Dumortier |
No Hibernating for Bear Stearns The brokers' honeymoon period continues, breaking records with its third-quarter results. But is the stock a buy? |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bear Stearns' Flesh Wound How deep do the problems at Bear Stearns run? Even in the best-case scenario -- where it really is just the hedge funds with heavy losses -- the ramifications will still likely be painful. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Holly Sraeel |
In a Global World, is the Blame Game Outmoded? James Cayne's slow response to Bear Stearns' mounting crisis is indicative of his willingness to let things run their course. Until, that is, things got woefully off course. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Shareholders of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your inept boards of directors. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Not Bearish on Bear Stearns Though perhaps not a dirt-cheap bargain, it doesn't appear that wild expectations are built into the investment bank's price. The stock looks a little interesting here. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
5 Signs Your Stocks Are Panic-Proof As you take a look at the stocks you own, here are five things you really need to focus on in order to feel comfortable that they'll help your portfolio weather the current financial storm. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Stretching for Good News at Bear Stearns Bear Sterns recently announced that it was ranked in Alpha's inaugural top equity trading firms survey. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Bad News Bear Stearns The pain continues for Bear Stearns. After announcing that two hedge funds had officially filed for bankruptcy, recent reports indicate that now a third is in trouble. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Mueller & Dumortier |
Who's More to Blame: Mortgage Banking CEOs or Geeks Bearing Formulas? March Madness series: The financial crisis started right here, by giving a mortgage to anyone with a pulse. Or maybe it started with the model-building geeks in finance who made it possible for their banks to do the damage they did? |
U.S. Banker
December 2001 |
Letters to the Editor Countrywide Not Desperate... Telling It Like It Is... |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Shareholders Should Hate Golden 'Chutes The idea of a big, fat golden parachute probably sounds great to a failed CEO. But for everyone else, it's a massive, illogical waste of shareholder capital. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2008
Bill Mann |
A Wish for Bear Stearns: New Coaches at NY & Co. It's time for new management at New York & Company. And since Bear Stearns controls the majority of the stock and much of the board, it won't happen unless Bear says so. |
