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Merger Mania: Handicapping the Field Who's next? That's the No. 1 question on bankers' minds after this summer's dramatic string of megamergers. And, if analysts who follow the biggest players [...]

Add First Horizon National Corp. of Memphis to the roster of companies that Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. believes could be sellers down the road. The New York investment bank [...]

Puerto Rican banking companies face more fundamental issues than the accounting problems that have dogged several of them recently, a UBS Securities LLC analyst said. Omotayo Okusanya cut his earnings [...]

Global daily trading volume in exchange-traded funds in the first half of the year increased 18.4% from a year earlier, to $14.8 billion, according to data from Morgan Stanley. Assets [...]

Capital One Financial Corp. reported a 25-basis-point rise in chargeoffs last month from October, but an analyst said loan growth and lower delinquencies bode well for credit quality. The managed [...]

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. shares have dropped 14% over the past three months because of concerns about rising rates and potential legal and regulatory costs, but one analyst says [...]

FleetBoston Financial Corp. is the latest large regional banking company to come under scrutiny for its exposure to capital markets and private equity markets, but it is faring better than [...]

The performance of Ginnie Mae bonds backed by adjustable rate mortgages has become easier to predict, according to analysts at Bear Stearns & Co. The investment bank recently released results [...]

WASHINGTON - When consumers need money, they are turning increasingly to brokerages, finance companies, and mortgage lenders, the Federal Reserve Board said in an in-depth report released Tuesday. 'Reflecting ongoing [...]

NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co. strategists said Thursday they expect a shift in assets from stocks to bonds. 'We don't know whether we are definitely at the top [...]

By RING, NIAMH Charles Schwab & Co., which invented the mutual fund supermarket with thousands of portfolio choices, is now warning investors about 'overload.' A study from the San Francisco [...]

Investor optimism hit a five-year low early this month, according to a brokerage's quarterly survey of its most active customers. The survey, by the discount brokerage Quick & Reilly Inc., [...]

Although women set investment goals, conduct research, and evaluate risks, they are not as confident in their investing skills as men, a Prudential Securities study found. The national study polled [...]