Financial

The U.S. banking regulators, namely the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) have found faults in the ‘Living Wills’ of the U.S. units of The Royal Bank …

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Many of my recommendations to The Dividend Hunter subscribers are companies that are very lightly followed by the financial media, if at all. I have found that a very large …

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Equity REITs, which invest typically in commercial buildings, apartments and other properties, have been a hot asset class over the past 14 months. As a sector, REITs are up about …

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Fed’s interest earnings approach $100b WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Friday it transferred a record $96.9 billion to the U.S. treasury in 2014, profits on its unprecedented $4.4 trillion …

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We have another European real estate play. The venerable US real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (KW, est. 1977) just over a year ago spun off its European investment operations …

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Buffett: Why You Shouldn’t Invest in a Business That Even a Fool Can Run by Fundoo Professor A post in a Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) group called Charlie Munger Fan Club prompted me to write this …

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This Great Graphic was composed on Bloomberg. It is a monthly bar chart of the real and theoretical euro prior to the launch of monetary union. The euro is in its third major …

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OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS June E-mini S&Ps (ESM15 +0.23%) this morning are up +0.19% and European stocks are up +0.31% after Eurozone manufacturing activity this month expanded at the fastest pace …

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Just under a year ago, when looking at aggregate loan creation by America’s banks, we stumbled upon something strange: there was a massive discrepancy between what the Fed, in its weekly call …

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The US dollar is mixed as the market continues to search for a new range post-FOMC. The relentless rise of the dollar has been broken with the help of a softer …

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