(Update story with comments from James Shanahan, financial services analyst at Edward Jones.) The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced the results of its annual stress tests for 33 large US banks and US subsidiaries of foreign banks. Since the Fed’s “severely adverse scenario” for stress testing was designed in February, …
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Text size JPMorgan Chase shares rose in response to the news. Spencer Platt / Getty Images Bank investors who braced themselves for the bad news on Thursday got at least one dose of something positive: regulators eased the risk-taking restrictions imposed after the 2008-09 financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance …
Read More »The Fed limits bank dividend payments and suspends share buybacks for the third quarter after stress tests
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve voted in favor of requiring large banks to preserve capital by suspending share buybacks and dividend payments in the third quarter. In a 4-to-1 vote, the Fed will tie dividend distribution to a formula based on recent earnings. The formula establishes the third quarter dividends …
Read More »The race for a COVID-19 vaccine causes drug makers to step up manufacturing, before a
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., which has not yet shared the results of the phase 1 trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has already received millions of dollars in funding to expand manufacturing capacity. An announcement Tuesday that the Defense Department would pay $ 71 million to finance the manufacture of a …
Read More »Vitamin seller GNC Holdings files for bankruptcy
GNC Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday with plans to sell and close up to one-sixth of its 7,300 stores worldwide. The GNC vitamin and supplement vendor, -24.69% He blamed the presentation of the slump in sales due to the coronavirus pandemic, demands from faster payment providers, …
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