Oppenheimer news from FierceFinance

Is anyone surprised by the Oppenheimer report that found Bank of America may need to raise up to $36 billion in capital to gets its tangible capital equity ratios in line with peers? The analysis... Read more...

Shares of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been on a tear since the beginning of last week; both are up roughly 30 percent from historic lows. This gives rise to an obvious debate: Is this a... Read more...

You've got to strike while the iron is hot. For Meredith Whitney, who used the financial crisis to storm her way to stardom has announced she will step down at Oppenheimer and start her own firm.... Read more...

Is the industry out of the woods? Not yet, according to Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney. As Reuters reports, she's telling clients that top banks are still plagued by capital issues, despite the... Read more...

According to Meredith Whitney, analysts at Oppenheimer, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup collectively represent more than half of all credit card lines outstanding, and they are under... Read more...

The powerful analyst at Oppenheimer, who is hardly shy about voicing her criticisms of such bank as Citigroup and Lehman Brothers, may have a new target. In Fortune interview, she says, "The Paulson... Read more...

Superstar Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney has trained her sights on Merrill Lynch. She now expects Merrill Lynch to take total write-downs of $5.8 billion for... Read more...

Financial News Online reports that investment banks will soon start reporting Tier 1 capital ratios, something they have not done previously. (Commercial banks have been doing this for years.) That... Read more...

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...

Meredith Whitney, of Oppenheimer, is telling clients that broker-dealers' second-quarter earnings are under pressure, reports MarketWatch. One new twist comes from the credit defaults swap market.... Read more...