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This week the largest financial firms in the nation have been reporting how they did in the last three months of 2009. In two words: not good. Citigroup and Bank of America lost roughly $8 billion and $5 billion, respectively. The credit-card and mortgage businesses of JPMorgan Chase, which reported their earnings last week, were a disappointment. Wells Fargo posted a profit, but nonperforming loans and related charge-offs both jumped. Morgan Stanley turned a profit in the fourth quarter, but it was less than what analysts expected. Even earnings growth at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs somewhat slowed...
...normal that banks would be hurting at this part of the recovery cycle. People and companies continue to fall behind on their debt obligations long after the economy turns. While the banks' lending operations still look weak, the volume of bad loans at many of the banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, are piling up slower than in the past...
...consensus of analysts estimates is for a 27% earnings rise for S&P 500 stocks in 2010, but even if this is achieved companies will be earning 9% less in 2010 than they did in the peak 2007 period. Steven Wieting, a managing director and U.S. economist at Citigroup Global Markets, says it will likely be 2012 or 2013 before earnings reach the levels attained in 2007. Maybe by then we'll be back to the stock-market highs that occurred...
Reischauer, who will be replacing Houghton, was elected to the Board of Overseers in 1996 and served for six years before joining the Corporation. Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60—the former Citigroup executive and Secretary of the Treasury—joined the group shortly before Reischauer in 2002. He did not serve previously as an Overseer...
...says Andrew Hargreaves, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 80% of adults say they intend to purchase technology as a gift this year, the highest figure in the 16 years the organization has tracked holiday shopping patterns. On Monday, Dec. 13, Citigroup analyst Kate McShane raised her price target for Best Buy, the country's dominant electronics retailer, from $40 to $45 per share. "We are seeing stronger traffic at [Best Buy] in its laptop, Geek Squad and video-game sections, while traffic remains healthy in TVs and digital cameras," she wrote...