The good times are still rolling on Wall Street. An intensifying earnings season will put that momentum to the test. The S & P 500 ended Friday at…
Read more Earnings will drive the stock market in the week ahead. That’s a good thingRegional bank stocks are breaking out, and they may be able to continue to climb even if second quarter earnings results are modest. The SPDR S & P…
Read more Regional bank earnings reports may not matter as group rips higher on rate cut optimismTraders expect the Federal Reserve could start cutting rates as soon as September, sending returns on cash lower, but a few places still offer yields exceeding 5% to…
Read more This bank just boosted its 1-year CD yield to more than 5%, even as traders await Fed rate cutsThe threat from a looming wave of maturing commercial real estate loans has been well telegraphed to investors, but it’s possible the metrics they are using to protect…
Read more Investors may be looking at commercial real estate risk all wrong and missing these opportunitiesInvestors will parse through regional bank results this week to deliberate how to trade a sector that has been weighed down by the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates.…
Read more Regional banks will dominate rest of earnings season this week. Here’s what analysts expectCustomers at a Safeway store in San Francisco. Getty Images American banks have been shuttering branches located within supermarket chains at a rate seven times faster than other…
Read more Bank branches inside supermarkets are closing 7 times faster than other locationsA customer enters Comerica Inc. Bank headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Cooper Neill | Bloomberg | Getty Images The stock sell-off that hit regional banks this year has exposed…
Read more These regional banks are at risk of being booted from the S&P 500When looking for a stock that pays a higher dividend than Treasury yields, investors don’t have too many choices these days. U.S. government bonds are enjoying yields not…
Read more These rare stocks are paying a higher dividend than the 10-year Treasury yield right nowMartin Gruenberg, acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), speaks during an Urban Institute panel discussion in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 3, 2022. Ting Shen…
Read more Regional banks face another hit as regulators force them to raise debt levelsA PNC Bank branch in New York, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors dumped shares of regional bank stocks on Tuesday…
Read more Regional bank shares under fire again after credit downgrade, head for worst day in three monthsA general view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street in New York City on May 12, 2023. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images…
Read more Moody’s cuts ratings of 10 U.S. banks and puts some big names on downgrade watchBack in April and May, investors saw juicy yields on regional bank stocks, some paying twice the rate on the 10-year Treasury note but wondered how safe they…
Read more Regional bank yields have fallen but plenty are still paying more than 4%The U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday that all 23 banks in this year’s stress tests withstood a hypothetical “severe” global recession and losses of up to $541 billion…
Read more Fed stress tests see large banks able to handle recession and slide in commercial real estate pricesMichael Barr, Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve, testifies about recent bank failures during a US Senate Committee on Banking, House and Urban Affairs hearing on…
Read more Federal Reserve says 23 biggest banks weathered severe recession scenario in stress testGoodbye pandemic refi cash-outs. Hello HELOCs? Home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and second-lien mortgages have been staging a notable comeback as U.S. homeowners look for liquidity and ways…
Read more HELOCs are back. Cash-strapped borrowers are tapping into a $33 trillion pile of home equity.With the Federal Reserve expected to pause its rate-hiking campaign at this week’s meeting, regional banks stocks have made a comeback, but that doesn’t mean all the trouble…
Read more As regional bank stock rally regains steam, investors should watch out for these spoilersThe sell-off in regional banks may have created a buying opportunity for certain investors in some of the safer, large-cap names, UBS said in a note Thursday. PacWest…
Read more UBS says it’s time to start picking up some of the safer regional banks on the cheapJamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global High Yield and Leveraged Finance Conference in…
Read more Jamie Dimon says ‘this part of the crisis is over’ after JPMorgan Chase buys First RepublicThe opening days of the first-quarter earnings season have spurred a sigh of relief among investors, especially when it comes to the regional banks whose future seemed seriously…
Read more Regional bank reports so far show deposits are stabilizing. What’s next for the stocksDuring a period of high interest rates, it might be more difficult to impress investors with dividend stocks. But the stocks can have an important advantage over the…
Read more 10 dividend stocks yielding at least 4.5% that are rated ‘buy’ by most analysts
