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“We do stress tests all the time on all of our portfolios,” Kovacevich said. “We share those stress tests with our regulators. It is absolutely asinine that somebody would announce we’re going to do stress tests for banks and we’ll give you the answer in 12 weeks.”

4032.00 resistance. Next big target upside 4169.00. Downside : 3951.00, 3878.00 :)

Hum....menue a la card today : 758.25 / 789.25 on the upside or / 739.00, 723.75 support...:)

While many financial companies are thirsting for cash, there's an even bigger group of businesses drowning in the stuff -- to the detriment of their shareholders. The nonfinancial firms in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have a total of $811 billion in cash and marketable securities on...

Lately, I am reading headlines like the following : Moody's Sued Over Bad Ratings - Teamsters class action lawsuit ... Moody's, S&P and Fitch Are Sued by Connecticut... Moody's sued over inaccurate subprime-backed bond ratings ... Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings sued by...

It´s worth to take a look at Net Interest Margin for U.S. Banks during recessions with average assets greater than $15B : What do you think is BOFA´s Ken Lewis refering to, if he is predecting expected $50 billion profit this year ? You got the answer right in front of you...

You should ask the question : WHO decides whether P/E of 8,10,15 or 19 is "appropriate" ? Even forward P/E ratios have so many flaws... But there is some good news out there : http://www.tickersense.typepad.com/

Nakako Ishiyama sits quietly in the living room of her apartment in the old Nihonbashi quarter of Tokyo, not far from its famous stone bridge – the point from which, in Edo times, all distances in Japan were measured. The neighbourhood was once part of the city’s financial district, and...

From time to time it pays off to visit CBOE and to use the search functionality : Here is an interesting essay from Banco Santander´s institutional desk : http://www.cboe.com/Institutional/pdf/vm1112ing.pdf But I´m sure you will find more...

Nouriel Roubini is a Ponzi Posted by Tracy Alloway on Mar 12 15:11 We wouldn’t have thought to ask Nouriel Roubini about Bernie Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme. But someone else has, and it’s thrown up an interesting tirade from the master of economic doom and gloom. Reprinted in its...

The most important sentence in their communique is this one : "We reaffirm our commitment to take all necessary actions to ensure the soundness of systemically important institutions." The rest of the "G20" coffee party is neglible.

No, Helicopter BEN will ! :D

...Should the S&P 500 follow Todd’s forecast, the index would tumble to 560 and then surge 47 percent to finish 2009 at 825. Wall Street equity strategists lost credibility last year when none predicted a down year and the average forecast was for a gain of 11 percent, according to data...

WASHINGTON -- Wells Fargo Corp. and HSBC Holdings PLC defended their lending practices on Friday after the NAACP's announcement it was filing lawsuits against the two banks alleging "systematic, institutionalized racism" in their lending to certain borrowers. "We stand by our fair lending and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is considering a plan to take over toxic bank assets until they mature, enabling lenders to avoid massive write-offs while dodging adding to bailout funds, three people familiar with the proposal said. The recommendation by a government panel...

Wrong question....sorry....

What´s the probability to take some stops above ESH9 61.25 ?

High frequency trading de luxe first 15 min ES trading. :p :)

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Switzerland will adopt the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development’s rules for combating tax evasion, allowing the government to provide tax information in specific cases, the finance minister said. “If Switzerland were to wind up on a black list it...

It´s so easy to "circumvent" these limits ! :)