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BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Why Merrill Got Burned So Badly Its leadership role in underwriting risky CDOs brought in millions in fees but put Merrill Lynch in the subprime bull's-eye. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Greg MacSweeney |
The Fallout From CDOs Will Last Through 2008 Banks' inability to price and measure risk on complex financial products is alarming and needs to be improved to avoid another market meltdown. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
A Major Stumble at Merrill Lynch In quarterly results Merrill Lynch announces its writedown will be $7.9 billion, almost twice as much as announced just last month. |
U.S. Banker February 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward Finding a path forward from the ashes of the subprime mess will require stronger leadership overseeing risk, a culture more respectful of interdependent risks and new technologies measuring them across the enterprise. |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 D. Henry & M. Goldstein |
Citi May Have a New Mess on Its Hands Citibank could take another billion-dollar hit from bad debt tied to the CDO commercial paper market. |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Emily Thornton |
Inside Wall Street's Culture Of Risk Investment banks are placing bigger bets than ever and beating the odds - at least for now. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Roben Farzad |
Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us When it comes to its role in the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has a message for the world: Not guilty. Not one bit. |
Bank Technology News January 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward The subprime mess has exposed how fragile banks are today to market pressures, and how much can fall on the shoulders of risk officers. Finding a path forward from the ashes will require stronger leadership overseeing risk. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Investment Banking Wrap-Up A look back at an eventful week in the investment banking segment: Lehman, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Sterns all report; the results are mixed. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Merrill Apes Goldman ... Again Merrill Lynch will create a senior executive role responsible for all European businesses in a move that mimics Goldman Sachs' hierarchy. |
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. |
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Farzad & Son |
The Bull Whisperer Sallie Krawcheck, chief of the wealth management unit at Bank of America, needs her Merrill Lynch brokers to drive profit to other divisions. And Merrill's "Thundering Herd" is snorting mad about it |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan |
The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Thain Recruits Colleagues in First Week at Merrill John Thain wasted no time during his first week on the job as the new head of Merrill Lynch. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein |
Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors. |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Maria Bartiromo |
John Thain on His New Job as CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain talks about his appointment as CEO of Merrill Lynch. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Poor, Unfortunate Bank of America Another ugly quarter from a financial services company. Pretty much everything that could go wrong for the investment banking division, did. |
CFO October 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
Goldman Shines On Goldman Sachs kicked off the brokers' earnings season with its third-quarter earnings announcement. Third-quarter performance looks very respectable, highlighting the strength and diversity of the firm's businesses. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Christopher C. L. Anderson |
Sovereign Wealth: It Could be Good for You Concern over the so-called sovereign wealth funds' recent investments in big global companies and U.S. banks are overblown. |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Smashing Numbers for Goldman Sachs Amid difficult market conditions and every reasonable expectation that the firm would hit some bumps, Goldman Sachs has an incredible quarter, reporting earnings per share 41% above the consensus estimates of Wall Street analysts. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Citigroup: The Master of Low Expectations Everything except an asteroid hitting Earth appears to be baked into the stock price this quarter. |
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Engen |
Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here? |
CFO November 1, 2003 |
Citi's New Stance After more than a year of scandal and public penance, Citigroup CFO Todd Thomson is determined to rebuild the reputation of the financial-services giant. |
Registered Rep. January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion. |
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 October 4, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
A Big Gulp for Big Banks? Is it possible that some big banks are writing off more than they need so that results in future periods can look better? |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley's Traders Score Big Morgan Stanley became the latest of the major investment banks to report better-than-expected earnings this week, sweetening some of the market's viciously sour mood. |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Wall Street's $70 Billion Facade In the wake of Lehman Brothers' failure this weekend, 10 major banks, including the remaining investment banks, are creating a $70 billion fund that any one of the participants can borrow from in a crunch. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Dumortier & Khattab |
Investment Banks Under the Microscope Investors, which Wall Street firms make the grade? Goldman Sachs... Lehman Brothers... Bear Stearns... Morgan Stanley... Merrill Lynch... etc. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman Sinks a Birdie Goldman's second quarter may not have been stellar, but considering the environment, it definitely deserves a golf clap. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The Biggest Bank Deals That Never Happened You think you've seen too big to fail? You ain't seen nothing. |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 David Henry |
Dangerous Waters for a Bailout Why the big banks' plan to help rescue the credit markets is not a sure thing. |
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 September 20, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Makes It Four of a Kind The investment bank has no trouble keeping pace with its peers. Investors, take note. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Kearney et al. |
The Power Players It's shaping up to be a challenging year for the wirehouse world. From Washington to Wall Street, see who we think will have the most influence on the industry as it battles through the down market. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Sham Gad |
E*Trade Bailout Signals Trouble Ahead E*Trade sidestepped bankruptcy when hedge fund Citadel Investment Group purchased some $3 billion of E*Trade's debt. Yet a closer look at the deal reveals some useful insights into the likely future of the mortgage-backed-securities market. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 Jack Milligan |
Ghosts of Lessons Past Memories are short indeed, lasting little more than a decade if Citi's experience is any guide. The capital markets need tougher oversight from Washington, to save the markets from themselves -- and to save us from the market excesses that always seem to reoccur. |
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Bond Woes Add To Banks' Problems With even the fixed-income business faltering, bank earnings are looking dismal. |
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 David Henry |
Are Banks Playing It Too Safe? Critics say capital cushions at firms like Goldman are a drag on profits, and healthy banks need more leverage. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Subprime Truths and Consequences The continuing credit crunch spotlights the perils of leverage. How should your financial advisory clients respond? |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Goldman's Double Take Goldman Sachs, one of the largest issuers of mortgage-backed securities over the past two and a half years, made huge amounts of money betting against what were in essence the same products it had been peddling to clients. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers CEO Pay Score Card: Merrill Lynch, Stanley O'Neal - $32 million... Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson - $29.8 million... etc. |
CFO December 1, 2007 Kate Plourd |
The Downside of Risk Merrill Lynch didn't take CFO Jeff Edwards up on his offer to resign after the company's huge subprime hit, but he could hardly be on a slipperier slope. |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
All Eyes on Lehman Lehman beat Goldman to the punch with its earnings report this quarter. Lehman's healthy numbers bolster the notion that broker-dealers have come through a difficult environment relatively unscathed during the third quarter. Investors, take note. |
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 June 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Stanley's Mighty Swing The investment bank knocks results out of the park. Can it last? Investors, take note. |