Meredith Whitney Advisory Group

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group has downgraded Jefferies Group (NYSE: JEF) from Buy to Hold with a $15.50 price target.

Reputed analyst Meredith Whitney of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group went on TV at the end of 2010, and predicted that we could see fifty to one hundred large size municipal defaults, totaling "hundreds of billions of dollars." So far we have seen nothing like that in this country, with a few...

Meredith Whitney, who has been notoriously bearish on the banks in the past, is singing a different tune this morning. Whitney, of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, said that Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) does not have to raise capital immediately. In comments captured by Bloomberg, Whitney...

Perhaps Meredith Whitney will ultimately be proven right, as Moody's is on a cutting spree, and has just cut Los Angeles General Obligation bonds from Aa2 to Aa3. Late last year, Whitney had predicted that "you could see 50 sizeable defaults. Fifty to 100 sizeable defaults" amounting to "hundreds...

Congress wants to speak to Meredith Whitney about the municipal bond market, but for right now, she isn't biting. Congressman Patrick McHenry, (R-NC) wants the president of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group to appear before the subcommittee he's launched to discuss what she had to say on "60...

The municipal bond market is going to play out in 2011, probably as the biggest financial storyline of the year, as we continue to see more defaults than anyone thinks is possible. If we take nothing else from the Great Recession, we should take the fact that things we thought weren't feasibly or...

Meredith Whitney is on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo and she is saying that middle America, the states that have not over-levered themselves and are not at risk of default, are the ways to play this. She said the ways to play it are transports, commodities, rails and other infrastructure related names...

Meredith Whitney of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group is on CNBC and she is discussing the issues with states and structural issues with them. Whitney said it is inevitable that some restructuring will take place at the state level. Whitney also believes that Wall St. will downsize over the next 6...

Meredith Whitney, president of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group has made herself into a very influential analyst on Wall Street, and when she speaks, the markets listen. Unfortunately, she hasn't been right on her investment ideas lately, costing clients potentially lots of money. Whitney called...