
By Sol Palha : In the learning to fish series, we provide investors with suggested guidelines for choosing a potential candidate and one candidate is selected as our play of choice. We provide reasons for this choice and in doing so hope to impart some understanding to those who are new to the ...
By Ganaxi Small Cap Movers : Regional banks, as represented by the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF ( KRE ), are up about 15% YTD, compared to the 10% rise in the broader markets as represented by the S&P 500 index. In this article, via an analysis based on the latest available Q4 institutional 13-F
Synovus Financial Corp. ( SNV ) Q1 2012 Earnings Call April 24, 2012 8:30 am ET Executives Kessell Stelling – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Thomas Prescott
Premarket gainers: RMBS +5% . BYD +5% . PSS +4% . BHI +4% . GRFS +4% . HSY +4% . KERX +3% . MMM +3% . SNV +3% . TXN +3% . F +3% . Losers: BIG -18% . NFLX -15% . RSH -10% . CXW -10% . SYMC -7% . WAT -7% . ARMH -5
April 24 (Reuters) - Synovus Financial Corp posted its third straight quarterly profit as the bank set aside lesser money to cover bad loans.
Synovus Financial ( SNV ): Q1 EPS of $0.02 beats by $0.01 . ( PR ) Post your comment!
By Stephen Simpson : Banks took many different approaches during the crunch that followed the housing bubble; some buried their heads in the sand, some dealt with problems as they appeared, and a few swallowed hard and aggressively wrote off bad debt. BB&T ( BBT ) fits into the later group and ...
By Dana Blankenhorn : One trend common to all the economic recoveries I have covered is that, early on, local and regional banks do better than big money-center ones. That's because local banks tend to focus on local customers, and often get their pick of the litter at this point in the cycle. ...
By Elliott R. Morss : Several weeks back, I wrote that the U.S. banking crisis was not over . As evidence, I pointed to the fact that more than 50% of the 742 banks that borrowed money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) had not even started to pay off their debts. That is costly money ...
By Insider Monkey : Tom Brown founded Second Curve Capital in 2000. The New York based hedge fund invests exclusively in the financial sector. Prior to founding Second Curve, Brown was working for Julian Robertson Complete Story »