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Merrill Lynch to slash dividend?

August 14, 2008 — 8:35pm ET | By Jim Kim
It's no secret that banks are constrained as they try to raise capital these days. Shareholders seem to have borne the brunt of these efforts, to say the least, and there's got to be a limit as to... Read more...

Bill Gross: Writedowns to hit $1 trillion

July 30, 2008 — 1:41pm ET | By Jim Kim
According to the Financial News Online write-down-o-meter, banks collectively wrote off $205 billion as of June. Since then, the total has marched higher. Is that number set to explode to even higher... Read more...

Are Lehman Brothers' options dwindling?

July 24, 2008 — 7:42am ET | By Jim Kim
Will Lehman Brothers be forced to sell its Neuberger Neuman asset management unit? There's been a lot of talk that it might be forced to find a buyer or sell shares to... Read more...

Virtual receivorship for Wachovia?

July 22, 2008 — 1:25pm ET | By Jim Kim
MarketWatch says this about Wachovia: "A case could be made that Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia, where loan defaults have jumped nearly five fold, isn't much better off... Read more...

Dividends, the best source of capital right now?

July 22, 2008 — 8:30am ET | By Jim Kim
We've noted that most banks big banks have fewer options when it comes to capital raising. Public offerings are increasingly hard, given concerns about dilution among other things. Outside investors... Read more...

Merrill Lynch's earnings in the spotlight

July 17, 2008 — 7:41am ET | By Jim Kim
Bank earnings for the second quarter have been surprisingly strong, so far. Of course, expectations were really, really low, which helped JPMorgan Chase handily top... Read more...

Man bites dog: Wells Fargo boosts dividend

July 16, 2008 — 12:41pm ET | By Jim Kim
These were welcome surprises: Wells Fargo, in addition to reporting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, actually boosted its dividend, to 34 cents from 31 cents.... Read more...

Capital raising to get harder for commercial banks

May 22, 2008 — 6:59am ET
We all get the sense that banks are due for some more capital raising. But it comes down, in large part, to upcoming writedowns. If they are much worse than expected, banks will have to hit the... Read more...

Meredith Whitney speaks again

May 21, 2008 — 6:59am ET
In times such as these, an analyst really can make a name for herself. Oppenheimer's Meredith Whitney rocketed to fame based in part on prescient prediction that Read more...

Break-up-Citigroup advocates not giving up

May 13, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Vikram Pandit's much anticipated new strategy for Citigroup was anti-climactic in several ways. Among the most disappointed were those who... Read more...
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