financials

Without too much in the way of news on the U.S.-China trade front, higher crude prices and a rebound in chipmakers seem to be helping bring buying sentiment back to the market Thursday morning after yesterday’s tepid session. Oil prices rose this morning on news that two oil tankers were...

Prior to 2012, a community bank had two options if it wanted to go public: IPO on an exchange or trade on what’s now known as the Pink Open Market. One of those options is capital intensive. The other comes with minimal financial standards and disclosure requirements. For many firms, neither...

Small-cap stocks are not immune to the broader market sell-off, and the group was down 11 percent from its high and in correction territory as of Thursday, according to TradeWise Director Tom White. TradeWise is an options-based trade advisory firm and affiliate of TD Ameritrade.  What...

It may not be as large as the bond market or as ubiquitous as real estate, but the stock market is definitely the most talked about of the financial markets. And while this has pretty much always been the case, the rise of index investing and robo-advisors in the last decade or so has...

Bridgewater Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ: BWB) recently offered 6.7 million shares in an initial public offering at $11.75 each. The Analyst D.A. Davidson analyst Kevin Reevey initiated coverage of Bridgewater with a Buy rating and a 12-18 month price target of $15.50, suggesting 20-percent upside...

Goldman was previously a Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) bear due to concerns about the capital building the company had to undergo to narrow the gap to its U.K. and EU investment banking peers and meet financial regulations. The firm's thesis on the UK banking giant changed Thursday. The...

Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF)'s upside is fully priced in, according to Nomura, and the bank and credit card issuer has little room for multiple expansion.  The Analyst Nomura analyst Bill Carcache downgraded shares of Capital One from Buy to Neutral and lowered the price...

A new business model, expanding efforts in high-growth markets and a high net worth client base could be promising catalysts for Customers Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: CUBI), according to analysts at D.A. Davidson. The Analyst Russell E. T. Gunther of D.A. Davidson initiated coverage on Customers Bancorp...

After an end-of-the-year rally in 2017, the financial services sector — the second-largest sector allocation in the S&P 500 — is continuing the streak. The Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to the sector, is up nearly 7 percent to...

Big banks began to report earnings in the week ended Jan. 12, and the financial earnings news flow continued into the week ended Jan. 19. A Muted Show The financial sector turned in 2.4-percent year-over-year revenue growth for the fourth quarter, the second lowest of all the eleven sectors,...

Bank Of The Ozarks Inc (NASDAQ: OZRK) reported fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, with an EPS that fell in-line with the consensus estimate.  The Analyst Keefe, Bruyette And Woods' Catherine Mealor downgraded Bank of the Ozarks from Outperform to Market Perform and reiterated a $56...

Stock market rallies can be deceiving, CNBC's Jim Cramer said during his daily "Mad Money" show on Wednesday: "Bad rallies" exist, and they're characterized by stock market gains, but for the wrong reasons. There are three items on a checklist that differentiate "...

Bank stocks were one of the immediate beneficiaries of the "Trump rally" following the 2016 presidential election. But by February 2017, the positive sentiment "drifted out of the stocks," Bernstein's Kevin St. Pierre commented in a research report. Since then, many of the stocks under the analyst'...

If you’re looking for a financial feast, check Oppenheimer’s choice platter. The firm’s 28 research analysts updated their monthly list of top picks this week, with just more than half of the catalog intact from the start of the summer. Here is what comes highly recommended:...

2017 has been the year of tech. With the Nasdaq 100 up about 18 percent, investors have poured money into large-cap names like Facebook.com, Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ:...