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How much economic influence do you think tech companies have?
Oct 19, 2018
78 percent of Americans think it's a great deal. But what exactly does that mean?
Bank earnings are way, waaay up. Here’s why.
by
Erika Beras
Oct 16, 2018
Quarterly earnings reports out this week from the major banks including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America show very, very strong gains. Many companies are benefiting from the changed tax code, but banks are a special case. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
Bank earnings are way, waaay up. Here’s why.
by
Erika Beras
Oct 16, 2018
Quarterly earnings reports out this week from the major banks including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America show very, very strong gains. Many companies are benefiting from the changed tax code, but banks are a special case. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
Banks count their blessings in recovery
by
Justin Ho
Oct 12, 2018
Three big banks posted their quarterly results Friday. And they were good. When you hear that profits at a bank like JPMorgan Chase were up almost 25 percent, you have to wonder: Why? Well, one reason is banks are making a lot more from you and me. Click the audio player above to hear the […]
Could a cyberattack cause the next financial crisis?
by
Janet Nguyen
Oct 3, 2018
Cyberthreats keep CEOs up at night. We asked experts what those scenarios look like.
Once "too small to thrive," now some banks are "too big to fail"
Sep 11, 2018
There was a time when most banks were small. They liked it that way. Today, just six banks manage more than half the assets in the entire U.S. banking industry.
Why Lehman still exists 10 years after its collapse
Sep 10, 2018
The investment bank's failure triggered nearly 80 bankruptcy proceedings involving hundreds of its subsidiaries.
For public good, not for profit.
The global economy a decade after the financial crisis
by
David Brancaccio
and Jonaki Mehta
Sep 5, 2018
A McKinsey Global Institute report looks at what we learned and the risks we can expect moving forward.
To combat Spain's affordable housing crisis, Barcelona has started renting out empty apartments owned by banks
Aug 2, 2018
Spain is in a housing crisis. According to the latest official figures from 2012, around 22,000 people are homeless, though more recent estimates from nonprofits say it could be closer to 40,000. And there’s a surplus of empty homes — hundreds of thousands of apartments owned by banks, repossessed during the country’s financial crisis between […]
Lloyd Blankfein changed Goldman Sachs. Will David Solomon keep it up?
by
Justin Ho
Jul 17, 2018
Goldman Sachs reported quarterly profits today, beating analyst expectations. As is often the case on Wall Street, the ups were no match for the downs — like heavy legal expenses and weak trading results. But the big news for the bank was that a successor has been named to replace storied Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, who […]