Berkshire Hathaway now owns 981.6 million Bank of America shares worth around $ 24 billion. Houston Cofield / Bloomberg Text size Bank of America is Warren Buffett’s favorite bank. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK.B) collected 33.9 million shares last week, paying around $ 810 million, or an average price of around …
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Text size Peter Foley / Bloomberg Bigger banks have reported profits, and investors can be forgiven if they are unsure where the opportunities are now. The answer may lie in how much uncertainty they are willing to accept. Analysts warned that the quarter would be “sloppy” and “confusing,” and banks …
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The potential cost of bad debt loans from the coronavirus for the country’s largest banks has reached 12 figures. The country’s five largest lenders – Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, US Bancorp, and Wells Fargo – say the financial stress caused by the pandemic could cause borrowers to default …
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Text size Cindy Ord / Getty Images Citigroup reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter, but the news failed to raise the stock. Earnings for Citigroup (ticker: C) totaled $ 1.3 billion, or 50 cents a share, better than the 35 cents stock analysts expected, but 73% below earnings of …
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Text size And so it begins. The Nasdaq Composite has been going up for so long now, it’s hard to remember if it feels like it’s going down. Now we know. Yes, that’s an exaggeration, but not much. He had been active for seven of the past nine trading days …
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