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Bank Results Season: BofA turns in an all round excellence score

Net profits of $2.6 B on just $1.7 B in Loan losses before taxes led the most heavily capitalised bank in the orld to further improve its net Basel 3 Tier I Common ration to 9.42%. Basel 3 weighted assets

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Bank Results Season: Q1 2013: The trader Goldman Sachs turns in another undisputed leadership in investment banking

With leadership in completed M&A esp in fee rich United States, Goldman Sachs powered ahead to a $1.57bln revenue in Investment Banking Fee Advisory income esp as it also capitalised on the bullishness in debt markets to get bragging rights

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Liborgate to claim Bob Diamond? | Banking insight

FT reports (subscription: story link) that the ex CEO of the Bank, Bob Diamond and the current Investment Banking Head Rich Ricci are among those who have been indicted in various forms by the Bank in its statements to the

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Bank Earnings Season: Goldman Sachs thumps in the majority opinion (Q4 and Full Year 2012)

Greg Smith’s ex employer offices in London got off to a wrong start trying to finagle tax-free bonuses and have since abandoned the plan leaving the HR team to explain the relative standing of both stances ( to delay the

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Citi Comebacks: The Global citizen tries the Mike O’Neill way

For a man who has done it before, it was easy for Mike O Neil to get down to real surgery at Citi with strategist and CEO MikeCorbat getting into the groove with asset sales after the mandatory pass for

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Bank Results Season: Bank of America ties up for another nought (EPS =NULL, “0.00″, ‘Zukk’)

BofA printed another scratchy topline down to the wire repeating Q2 2010 all over again when Non Interest expenses of $17.5 B and a Tax expense of $1B almost completely covered its Topline of $20.6 B after a small $1.8

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Posted in Amitonomics, Financial Markets, housing, Retail Lifestyle, US

Bank Results Season: Citi finally Stripped of Dignity, cries for shame

Vikram Pandit’s Citi turned out to be a bad dream for everyone despite the early lead throughout the crisis and an early and clean attrition of its own bad debt . th elatest quarter strips its EPS of $1.06 or

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Bank Results Season: JP Morgan strives for a $100 B 2012 after CIO position ‘annulled’

Big banks are going to reporting 37% higher business from Mortgages this quarter sequentially and that includes J P Morgan as a proud #2 in the business, behind Wells Fargo. The Earnings season is off with a great report as

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Bank Results Season: Goldman Sachs is the IN after all!

Investment Banking revenues rose sequentially to $1.2 Bln even as 98% of the Financial Advisory deals signed in the first half were in the smallest fee bracket and Debt underwriting surprisingly rose for Goldman Sachs globally by nearly 20% sequentially.

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Bank Results Season: West Coast Economy snowed under/tanned brown by Wells Fargo mortgages

While one can’t say the leader JP Morgan has not tried, with $130 B in consumer loans including less than half a million new mortgages, the Wells Fargo-Wachovia combine, which still thinks expenses from its merger with Wachovia on the

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