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Big banks face Fed stress test this week

Big banks face Fed stress test this week

What’s a week without a good chance that the Federal Reserve will roil the stock market? On Thursday June 25, the Federal Reserve will release results of its annual bank stress tests on June 25. At stake will be bank plans for dividend payouts. Banks that...
At the most serious end, the mortgage delinquency problem is getting worse

Mortgage delinquencies soar in April

The number of borrowers who stopped paying their home loans jumped by 1.6 million last month, according to data from Black Knight, a real estate analytics company. The national mortgage delinquency rate rose to 6.45% in April, up from 3.06% in March. That’s...
Credit crunch hits credit cards hard

Credit crunch hits credit cards hard

Credit card issuers have already cut the credit limits or closed credit card accounts entirely for about 1 in 4 credit card holders–almost 50 million Americans–in the past 30 days, according to a survey byLending Tree’s Compare Cards website. The...
At the most serious end, the mortgage delinquency problem is getting worse

It’s May–time for a mortgage and rental crisis

By the end of April 3.8 million homeowners had sought mortgage relief and were not making their payments. That’s a 2,400% increase from early March, Black Knight, a mortgage technology and data provider, told the Washington Post. The problem may be even worse...
At the most serious end, the mortgage delinquency problem is getting worse

Looking for an above average yield? Australia’s Westpac Banking looks very attractive after today’s financial sector selling but I’d wait on a likely dividend cut this fall

Today’s weakness in the financial sector on the news that online brokerage Charles Schwab (SCHW) will be cutting commissions on equity and ETF trades to 0% sent the financial sector down to a loss of 2.07% on the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF). That...