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Citigroup: Negative Assessment; FOMC: Liquidity vs the VIX
New York | Fed Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed this week that the FOMC is unlikely to make any further reductions in interest rates for...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 14, 20194 min read
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The Bank Dead Pool; Goldman Sachs: Negative Assessment
New York | Last week we pondered the fate of Citigroup (C) and several other global banks that have lost their raison d'être with a group...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 6, 20194 min read
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Third Quarter Bank Earnings: 4 Charts
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we look at Q3 earnings for financials from 10,000 feet. We do this through four...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 14, 20196 min read
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Deutsche Bank + Citigroup?
New York | Watching the related financial dramas of China’s HNA Group and Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG (DB), we are reminded of Timothy...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 25, 20186 min read
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Remembering Bear Stearns & Co
New York | The failure of Bear Stearns & Co a decade ago illustrates the key lesson of financial markets, namely that non-banks are...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Mar 15, 20184 min read
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Large Cap Financials & Asset Inflation
New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 26, 20184 min read
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The Yellen Put
New York | The term “Greenspan Put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the subsequent bailout of Long Term Capital...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 26, 20176 min read
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CDO Redux: Credit Spreads & Financial Fraud
“The great wheel of circulation is altogether different from the goods which are circulated by means of it. The revenue of the society...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 1, 20177 min read
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Citigroup: Expanding Multiples, Flat Margins
New York | We start the week in downtown Manhattan with a presentation to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers in...
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 25, 20175 min read
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How Much Lower Will Bank Stocks Fall?
Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....
By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 12, 20174 min read
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