Has the financial sector stabilized—and if so, how can investors put their money to work? Jeffery Harte, managing director in equity research at Sandler O’Neill, and David Trone, managing director at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, discussed their outlook for the banks.    Read More

Markets fell broadly on Thursday as a jobless claims report did little to calm economic worries. Brian Kelly, president of Kanundrum Research, shared his outlook and investment advice.   Read More

The bad news is banks are still failing. The "good" news is that there are those banks with the balance sheet strength such they can take over the failures on some pretty good terms.   Read More

PrivateBancorp is trying to rebound from a gut-wrenching selloff, but traders have other ideas.    Read More

Cautiously optimistic comments from two British banks this morning: HSBC earnings were better than expected and the tone of the report was upbeat, with bad loans down. Barclays said it expects loan losses to peak in the first quarter of 2010.    Read More

Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve kept its federal funds rate unchanged in a range of zero to 0.25 percent, and said the economy "continued to pick up" since its last meeting. Robert Barbera, chief economist at ITG shared his insights on how this impacts the financials and the economy.    Read More

The most commonly misunderstood narratives emerging from last year’s financial upheaval are that the crisis was caused by big banks, and that the crisis started with the failure of one big bank in particular – Lehman Brothers.    Read More

Financials weaken midday and traders are citing two factors.    Read More

'Over the last year, the federal government has injected over $200 billion into approximately 600 financial institutions, and guaranteed over $300 billion of their troubled assets. Given the rapidly rising US budget deficit, what was the justification for such large bailouts, and what should be the rationale for bailouts in future financial crises?,' writes Pozen.   Read More

How should investors be positioning their portfolios for the new week and new month? Alan Valdes, vice president of Kabrik Trading, and Charles Bobrinskoy, vice chairman and director of research at Ariel Investments,  shared their insights.    Read More