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The Motley Fool
October 2, 2008
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Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it?   |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2009
Elliott Orsillo |
Bank Shareholders Unite! Recent congressional action may have stimulated the market, but at what cost to bank stocks? |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Bradley Keoun |
Bank Profits Are Worse Than They Look Two accounting adjustments made the bottom line bigger at the nation's six largest banks. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Will This Squash Bank Earnings? Earlier this year, as things hit the fan in unison, an odd accounting rule allowed troubled banks to offset losses at just the right time. Now that things are improving, the other side of this insane accounting rule takes hold. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
To Mark-to-Market, or Not to Mark-to-Market? As investors and traders keep trying to figure out whether the market has bottomed, or whether Citigroup's health report holds any truth, one question seems to pop up over and over again: Should we jettison mark-to-market accounting? That is the wrong question -- it's really all about leverage. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010 |
Prelude to a Panic September 2008 will live in infamy as the month when the U.S. financial system ground to a halt. But for Goldman Sachs and other institutions, the real panic took place throughout 2007. Here is what happened behind the scenes at Goldman. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 4, 2008
Larry Tabb |
Relaxing Mark-to-Market Rules Is a Slippery Slope Mark-to-market accounting is critical to the valuation of profits, positions, net capital and, for that matter, bank solvency. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2009
Morgan Housel |
You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2008
Emil Lee |
Swaps Sink AIG AIG's stock gets pounded as the company ups its loss estimates. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Bank Stocks in 2009 -- What You Need to Know Why you should expect continued volatility. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley and the Art of Coming Up Short The quarterly loss that really wasn't. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2009
Eric Bleeker |
This Is Why AIG Is Up? Really? AIG's riding a wave of general optimism and risk-hungry investors looking to earn back losses in a hurry. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
The Award for Worst Bank Stock Goes to ... There has been much debate about whether we are through the worst of the credit crunch. In that spirit, let's choose the worst banking stock to own. Picking just one was no easy task. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
This Was Once America's Most Hated Company But AIG may turn out to be quite a bargain. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Another Black Eye for AIG These are dark days for the insurance giant. In the latest news, former AIG chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg might face civil charges for an alleged role in improperly inflating AIG's loss reserves. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2009
Ivan Martchev |
Why the FASB Change Hurts Investors The Financial Accounting Standards Board changes allow companies to use significant judgment in estimating asset values ... the kind of judgment those companies lacked in acquiring those same assets. Why should we trust them now? |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Goldman Sachs Takes the High Ground The investment bank threatens to leave an international group over a proposed rule change for accounting. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank Dividends Are Dead Short of regional banks, every major bank has slashed its payout to meaningless levels, if not eliminated it completely; don't count on seeing them return anytime soon. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Bank Losses: Are We Just Getting Started? Bank losses have spooked the market. They could yet quadruple. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2009
Liz Peek |
A Bold New Plan: Dump FAS 157 What can President Obama's financial team do to right the banking ship? One idea that should be reviewed is the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, required by FAS 157, which would go a long way toward stabilizing the banks. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2008
Bill Mann |
How Not to Solve the Credit Crisis One idea that some are pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt is for it to suspend mark-to-market accounting. This is not just a bad idea; it is a bad idea that sets a bad precedent. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2009
David Henry |
Banks: Pain Now, Profits Tomorrow By recognizing loan losses preemptively, companies are setting the stage for better earnings next year. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
At AIG, History Hideously Repeats AIG, the world's largest insurer, posts its second straight record quarterly loss, caused by a massive writedown of derivatives exposed to bad mortgage investments. |
CFO
April 1, 2009
Leibs & Leone |
The Blame Game Goes into Overtime The debate over the fairness and value of fair-value accounting intensified last month as lawmakers took accounting rule-setters to task for the role that fair value has allegedly played in the current economic crisis. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Headwinds to Consider Before Buying Banks Margin mayhem and accounting agony could turn into quite a headache going forward for bank stocks. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bad News for Big Banks How the new FDIC rules will impact megabanks. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Presto, Change-o, Where'd the Credit Crisis Go? As the credit market surrounding residential real estate paddles through chaos, MBIA has been saddled with huge mark-to-market losses. But management tries to tell a different story in their quarterly report. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
A Big Quarter for Bank Stocks: Here's What to Expect Trading, accounting games, and dividends. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Banks and Congress: One More Mistake Can't Hurt? We may be turning Japanese. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Pick the Unlucky Bank The Treasury's stress test will show that at least one bank needs more capital. Who might it be? |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Big Day for Bad Stocks As the Dow Jones fell 40 points yesterday, some of the market's worst companies -- financial stocks either majority owned by the government or still drowning in losses -- scored utterly insane gains. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
1 Year Later: Is AIG a Buy? The real opportunity behind AIG. (Hint: it's all about the business.) |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2009
Leef Smith Barnes |
Hallelujah: Dow 8,000 Well, almost. |
The Motley Fool
May 22, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is There Value Hiding in AIG? AIG has been an utter mess, but there could still be some valuable assets hidden in the wreckage. |
U.S. Banker
January 2009
Joseph Rosta |
The Industry's New Year's Resolutions Here are five things the banking industry should consider to dig out of this recessionary ditch stronger than before. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Gene G. Marcial |
Is AIG Turning A Corner? It is increasingly likely that AIG will recapture business momentum, driving stock prices up. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Blatant Opacity of Banks' Balance Sheets Accountants can be creative people. Bankers can be sneaky people. Put the two together, and funny things happen. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2009
Morgan Housel |
With Lewis Gone, Is Pandit Next? Citigroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, replaced Chuck Prince in 2007, so he can't be blamed for many of Citi's problems. But you can still argue that he should be replaced. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Farewell, Dear Bailout Almost a year to the day after the Treasury dumped tens of billions into banks, the heart of the $700 billion bank bailout called TARP is coming to an end. How did it do? |
U.S. Banker
March 2009
Joseph Rosta |
FASB Hesitates, SEC Stands Still on Fair Value The banking industry wins a minor skirmish in the fair value war when the Financial Accounting Standards Board turned down a proposed amendment that would have expanded controversial fair value/mark-to-market practices in the financial sector. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Shubh Datta |
AIG and Losses Go Hand in Hand AIG posts biggest quarterly loss since 2009. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Does This Mean Banks Are Out of the Woods? Is the worst for banks really behind us, or is this just another emotional outburst by investors who've swung from chaotic pessimism to blind optimism? |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2007
Jessica Silver-Greenberg |
Finding Bargains in Battered Banks The credit crunch won't last forever, and, for now, some players are paying handsome dividends. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Outrage of the Week: Freddie's Curious Accounting Bookkeeping was never meant to be this subjective. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
These Banks Are Scarier Than Halloween Little, if anything, has changed in banking, and that's a good reason to be scared. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2008 |
AIG Needs Cash; Who Will Buy Its B/Ds? The $20 billion loan AIG was allowed to borrow against itself yesterday didn't have much of an impact after S&P, Moody's and Fitch cuts its credit ratings. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Subprime Numbers in Perspective It's time to stop and appreciate the enormity of the numbers that we encounter every day. How massive is our economy? How huge is the subprime crisis? |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Wachovia and National City Disappoint Both banks reported fourth-quarter results that were not just down versus last year, they were downright ugly. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2009
Morgan Housel |
4 Reasons Geithner's Plan Won't Work Misunderstandings and misconceptions spell trouble. |
