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The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Credit Cards Are Dying Fast Some big banks are already logging credit card default rates well past what the Treasury's stress test assumed to be a worst-case scenario. |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Great News for Banks Another round of stress tests, and it's good news this time. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2009 Morgan Housel |
If You Think the Worst Is Behind Banks, Read This Dig into the stress test results, and banks' futures might be worse than many assume. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Does This Mean Credit Cards Are Out of the Woods? Stocks for credit card issuers exploded yesterday, on hopes the deep, dark, trend in rising delinquencies and defaults is drawing to a close. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Morgan Housel |
How to Destroy the Credit Card Industry Congress is slogging through new regulation that will, among other things, hinder the "abusive and unfair" practice of banks jacking up interest rates on existing credit card balances. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
As Card Losses Hit Record Levels, Banks Hit Back Expect future losses to exceed initial estimates. |
The Motley Fool May 5, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
What Investors Should Know About the Stress Tests 6, 10, 14? There's a lot riding on the numbers. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
American Express: Holding Up, but Worth the Price? Business may be stabilizing, but should you buy the stock? |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Morgan Housel |
4 Reasons Banks Still Scare Me Bank investors have made buckets of money over the past month. That's great. But when fear switches to elation as quickly as it has, while banks' underlying problems are still alive and well, you have to think things are getting overcooked. |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Don't Kid Yourself: Banks Can Still Be Insolvent The folks at Treasury say everything will be fine. Should we believe them? |
InternetNews November 19, 2008 Paul Shread |
Stocks Plunge as Fed Lowers Growth Outlook With the Federal Reserve predicting no growth until 2010, investors saw little reason to hold stocks on Wednesday. Yahoo and chip stocks led the tech sector lower. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Is the Fed Smart, Dumb, or Both? One day, the market thinks the Federal Reserve chairman is the dumbest guy on Earth. The next morning, he's the master of the universe. The reality is somewhere in between -- but try telling that to traders who get whipsawed repeatedly. |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Should You Buy the Big Banks? The stress test results are out; now how should we feel about banking stocks? |
U.S. Banker January 2011 Scott Anderson |
Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain The Fed s plan to buy $600 billion of Treasury bonds might boost demand for loans, but this latest round of quantitative easing could hamper bank profitability and continue to restrain the economic recovery. |
BusinessWeek February 17, 2011 Craig Torres |
The Fed's A-Team Hunts for Signs of Risk LISCC, as the Fed team of analysts and economists is called, probes the banks. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Confidence ... or Con Game? When you think about it, trying to gain someone's confidence in order to grift them out of their hard-earned dollars really isn't an outlandish metaphor for our current situation. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Get Ready for Credit Card Hell Credit card companies aren't just sitting back and absorbing losses, but frantically slashing existing credit lines in a last-ditch effort to take the risk off their balance sheets. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Anatomy of a Terrible Bank A look at the failure that is Washington Mutual. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Picture of the Day: Why Inflation Isn't a Problem Excess reserves are piled high. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2009 Christopher Barker |
Are You Ready for Round II of the Mortgage Meltdown? A troubling report on the mortgage crisis has far-reaching implications. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Can We Handle Another 22% Drop in Real Estate Prices? That's exactly what some government estimates predict. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
More Reasons to Worry About Credit Card Companies First it was the banks; now consumers are the ones ditching credit cards. |
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Rich Miller |
What Now, Chairman Bernanke? Some economists and former Fed officials think Bernanke should rethink the central bank's wait-and-see policy as growth slows. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2009 Morgan Housel |
How Much Money Will It Take to Save the Banks? NYU economic professor Nouriel Roubini estimates banks still need at least $1.4 trillion of new capital to get back on a sustainable path, suggesting therefore that the U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent in the aggregate. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Credit Cards: Still No Sign of Recovery Things are still grim in the credit-card world. |
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and Banking Stress Tests Will government stress tests truly provide a good picture of banks' health? |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Wells Fargo Looks Attractive Cheaper and better-run is an attractive combination. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Tom Keene |
Tom Keene: A Chat with JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman A talk with JPMorgan Chase's chief economist about the economy and the outlook for jobs in the U.S. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
Are Small Businesses Still Struggling for Credit? There's an ugly outlook for U.S. unemployment: The Federal Reserve is projecting an unemployment rate of 9.1% to 9.5% for the end of this year, and 8.1% to 8.5% by the end of 2011. And much of that will come down to small businesses. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Why QE2 Didn't Work Lots of cash printing, very little new cash. |
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 October 28, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
A Rising Trend That Could Hurt Banks Investors have yet to pay much attention to the potential losses on other forms of bank lending, including credit card loans. But they should. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2010 Russ Krull |
Citigroup: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats A SWOT at Citigroup. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 William Trent |
What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do. |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Caroline Salas |
In Search of the Ideal Jobless Rate The U.S. Nairu, or natural rate of unemployment, may have drifted up to 7 percent, making the timing on tightening trickier for the Fed. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 |
Asset Allocation Outlook for inflation and the Fed, plus other predictions from a panel of strategists, and asset allocation recommendations. |
The Motley Fool December 9, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
Investing in a High Unemployment Era If we're going to be muddling through an extended period of persistently high unemployment, investors may need to alter their game plan a bit. |
The Motley Fool July 19, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
This Is Killing the Recovery Why Washington won't fix the economy, and how it affects you. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Swarms In I just worry he won't be able to swarm out as quickly. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Kopecki & Campbell |
Low Rates are Squeezing Bank Profits What started as a blessing for big lenders is becoming a burden as profit margins shrink. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Who Buys Treasuries Once the Fed Leaves Town? Someone will. But that doesn't mean there's no risk. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Joseph Khattab |
What's the Deal With Bank Reserves? Understanding a bank's loan loss reserve is tricky, but it will be an important topic as investors head into first-quarter earnings |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why the Fed Put These Stocks Ahead of Savers Rock-bottom interest rates are here to stay, apparently. Highly leveraged companies got a big boost from the Fed's promise to keep short-term rates low. |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Inside JPMorgan Chase's Earnings It was another blowout quarter for JPMorgan Chase, one of only a few surviving banks in the post-Lehman world. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Job Markets Will Decide The Fed's Next Move The low jobless rate, despite slower growth, heightens the inflation threat. |
On Wall Street May 1, 2013 Matthew Lemieux |
Getting Ready for Rising Rates Unfettered interest in fixed income has persisted, despite the reality that interest rates will rise. |
BusinessWeek December 3, 2009 |
Challenges to the Fed The Federal Reserve may undergo some loss of power and privacy. |