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3 Financial ETFs To Watch As US Bank Earnings Season Kicks Off Friday
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 5:24pm | 820Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), and State Street Corp. (NYSE:STT), are scheduled to release their second-quarter earnings results on Friday, July 14. Bank Earnings Season Has Begun...
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Are Bank of America Accounts Linked To Coinbase Being Shut Down? Crypto Exchange CEO Brian Armstrong Wants To Know
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 12:18pm | 466The relationship between the cryptocurrency and banking industries seems to be under strain once again, following a Twitter poll initiated by Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase Global Inc. (NASADAQ: COIN), questioning whether Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is closing accounts linked...
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Silicon Valley Bank Depositors Will Have Access To All Their Money, Say Regulators
Sunday, March 12, 2023 - 7:25pm | 449Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ: SIVB) will have access to all their money starting Monday, according to regulators. The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Treasury Department in a joint statement said that the FDIC will complete its...
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Can Bitcoin Resolve Central Bank Woes?
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 2:44pm | 476Would the adoption of digital currency, such as Bitcoin, solve central banks' problems? Probably not, said Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky. Central banks are mulling to get paper currency out of people's hands due to money laundering issues and negative rates. Bershidsky recalled that in...
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Financials Had A Really Bad Week
Friday, May 6, 2016 - 4:13pm | 351Financial stocks are mostly lower on Friday, a trend that investors have seen almost all week. With two hours of trading remaining on Friday, the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF) erased its early morning losses and was trading higher by just 0.17 percent. At the close, the ETF was up 0...
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China Backpedaling On Fintech?
Friday, May 6, 2016 - 1:45pm | 346Fintech has burst onto the scene in the past decade to challenge the status quo of the banking industry. While many companies have begun to pose serious threats to traditional banks, other fintech startups have relied upon suspect business models and reckless lending and spending. The Chinese...
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The Federal Government Is Considering Imposing A Bank Tax
Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 4:34pm | 128The federal government is contemplating hitting the big banks with a bank tax. The government wants to tax banks a whopping $90 billion dollars over the next 10 years. The government is trying to recoup losses from the TARP fund. According to President Barack Obama, "we need to impose a fee on the...
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Is This Really Financial Reform For Banks (XLF)?
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 5:36pm | 196After almost 2 years of discussion, Congress is finally set to introduce a financial reform bill. The financial reform bill is supposed to prevent a taxpayer funded bailout for the big banks (XLF) from ever taking place again. If the bill passes in its current form, it will do very little to reform...