NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - U.S. financial stocks mostly fell on Friday with modest losses, but a few shares, like CME Group Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley bucked the trend to move higher. More broadly, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF , which tracks the financials in the S&P 500 ,…

Bank of America lowers its price objective on Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) from $65 to $63 and reiterates its Buy rating on shares. Bank of America notes, "Intuit provides investors with a rare combination of Cloud + mobile opportunities and can be a potential beneficiary of HTML5 adoption longer term.

By Analytic Firepower:A few items came out this week which bolster the bear case on American Tower (AMT).First MSCI announced that AMT would not be included in the US REIT index after their comprehensive semi-annual index review. Wall St. analysts had been giddy with the prospect…

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Bank of America Corp. (BofA) said on Tuesday it had launched a nationwide program that offers increased relocation payments to delinquent mortgage customers who complete qualifying short sales.

By Value Equity Analyst:To evaluate the risk/reward of owning the 2019 Series A and 2018 Series B Bank of America (BAC) warrants, I built a simple Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model, which allowed me to estimate the expected return profile of the warrants under various…

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (MPW) Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference Call May 16, 2012 4:40 pm ET Executives Edward K. Aldag Jr. – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer R. Steven Hamner – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer…

Royal Bank of Canada and Credit Suisse are among the suitors seeking to bid for the non-U.S. wealth management businesses of Bank of America Merrill Lynch , sources told Reuters, in a deal that could be ...

Major automakers will launch new models through 2016 in the United States at a faster pace than in the last two decades, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report. New models draw more traffic ...

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Canada and Credit Suisse are among the suitors seeking to bid for the non-U.S. wealth management businesses of Bank of America Merrill Lynch , sources told Reuters, in a deal that could be worth around $2 billion.

Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.

Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.

- By Josh Krause:In today's market, financials are my least favorite asset class. From the suspension of mark-to-market accounting, to the complete dependence of the Too Big To Fail (Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C),…

Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference May 15, 2012 7:20 PM ET Executives Jana Galan – Bank of America David Hegarty – President and COO Richard Doyle – CFO Presentation Jana Galan Good afternoon. My name is Jana…

By Value Equity Analyst:To evaluate the risk/reward of owning the 2019 Series A and 2018 Series B Bank of America (BAC) warrants, I built a simple Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model, which allowed me to estimate the expected return profile of the warrants under various…

U.S. Bancorp overtook banking giants Bank of America and Citigroup to become the third-largest mortgage originator in the U.S. for the first quarter of the year. Data compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance details the performance of mortgage lending divisions of the country?s largest banks in…

According to a research report this morning, Bank of America upgrades its rating on Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) from Neutral to Buy while increasing its PO from $24 to $25 as well.

By Stock Croc:You would think that in the midst of the economy being a bit down, a potentially too-big-to-fail institution like Wells Fargo (WFC) would be down on its luck and trying to recuperate. However, that does not seem to be the case here.If anything, its profits have risen…

By Value Equity Analyst:Using a simplistic model and making a few reasonably conservative assumptions around ROE, capital levels, and additional future losses, Bank of America (BAC) common equity offers investors with a long-term time horizon returns in excess of 20% annually and…

Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper placed bullish bets on tech, auto, airline, and bank names in the U.S. as of the end of the first quarter, according to the latest  form13F filed with the SEC on Monday.  Tepper’s Appaloosa Management substantially increased its equity…

A federal judge in New York on Monday refused to delay the approval process for a controversial $20 million settlement between Bank of America Corp directors and shareholders who accused the bank of overpaying ...

Hedge fund titan David Tepper's latest 13F filing is out and Appaloosa Management massively increased its stake in Apple and bought huge position in Bank of America.  For the quarter ended 3/31/2012, Appaloosa had 685,000 shares in Apple compared with 181,850 in the previous…

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. again sat near the top of the biggest-losing financial stocks on Monday as the company shook up senior management and continued to do damage control after reporting a surprise $2 billion trading loss last week. J.P. Morgan shares…

By Todd Johnson:Financials play an incredible role in our day to day economy. Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), and JPMorgan (JPM) have been designated as too big to fail entities. I recommend retired investors recognize the U.S. Government has identified the to big too fail…

Ambani had joined the Bank of America (BofA) board in March, 2011 and its shareholders approved his re-appointment for another year at the Annual General Meeting last week