Finance / FITB (Fifth Third Bancorp)

Print    CHK WITHOUT THE FRAT BOYS msg # 7432   12/1/2009 7:57:22 PM By: gordon54838 Upgrades and downgrades Initiations Check Point Software ( CHKP ): The stock is begun with a Buy at ThinkEquity Partners. Clearwire Corp ( CLWR ): Clearwire is increased to Neutral from Sell at UBS, which takes its price target to $...

Credit Suisse: outperform "NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Credit Suisse analysts on Wednesday urged clients to buy and overweight regional banking stocks, saying that a number of credit metrics that have plagued the sector will improve steadily in 2010, and provide good returns. "We believe non-performing assets, net chargeoffs, and (loan loss) provisions will steadily improve throughout 2010, ...

Japan went the "pretend and extend" route, keeping zombie banks going for many years after their real estate bust in 1990. Shortage of capital kept the zombies from lending, keeping Japan's recession going for 15 years, despite their central bank's ZIRP. If special servicers force auctions, will the auction prices force other banks to mark their properties to the market? What would be...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Bank of America (BAC Quote) was among the losers of the financial sector Monday after a bank analyst argued that it would have to sell more stock to satisfy the U.S. government's demands, which would "meaningfully harm" shareholders. Bank of America shares were down 92 cents, or 5.7%, to $15.30 after Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove late Friday said ...

Futures point to modest gains as dollar falls On 9:04 am EDT, Monday October 26, 2009 Buzz up! 0 Print.Companies:Fifth Third BancorpCorning Inc.SunTrust Banks, Inc. By Leah Schnurr Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 9,972.18 -109.13 FITB 10.34 0.00 GLW 15.65 0.00 STI 20.99 0.00 VZ 28.85 0.00 {"s" : "^dji,fitb,glw,sti,vz","k" : "c10,l10,p20,t10","o" : "","j" : ""} NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. ...

US HOT STOCKS: RadioShack, Lorillard, ING, BofA, Fifth Third U.S. stocks traded lower Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 99 points to 9873, the S&P 500 down 12 points to 1068 and the Nasdaq Composite down 13 points to 2142. Among the companies whose shares are actively trading in the session are RadioShack Corp. (RSH), Lorillard Inc. (LO) and ING ...

Quote: Originally Posted by newmny65 And looking back nearly 4 months, realizing I sold WAY to early. I had daytraded up to the point that I held 5000 FREE shares- got nervous and sold out around 2.90. Made a good profit but being new and impatient, I left a TON of money on the table. LIVE AND LEARN!!!! Live and learn- RECAP, sometimes I do some STUPID ...

Stocks rise as financial, consumer stocks gain Stocks rebound as upbeat earnings reports push investors into financial, consumer stocks By Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer On 6:02 pm EDT, Thursday October 22, 2009 Buzz up! 5 Print.Companies:Amazon.Com Inc.EBay Inc.Fifth Third Bancorp NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors encouraged by a good batch of earnings reports and forecasts jumped back into stocks ...