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What Does the Fed See Heading at Big Banks? Blocks Share-Buybacks, Slaps on Dividend Caps Due to “Economic Uncertainty” and “Cushion Against Loan Losses”

What Does the Fed See Heading at Big Banks? Blocks Share-Buybacks, Slaps on Dividend Caps Due to “Economic Uncertainty” and “Cushion Against Loan Losses” My Big-Four Bank Index already got crushed back to 2004 level. After the stock market closed today, the Federal Reserve announced that “in light of the economic uncertainty,” and to provide “a cushion […]

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Soaring Canadian Insolvencies Cripple Local Banks

Soaring Canadian Insolvencies Cripple Local Banks Banks in Canada are starting to feel the pain of deteriorating credit quality, just weeks after we reported that insolvency filings had skyrocketed in almost all Canadian provinces.  Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada both just posted ugly first quarter results that included higher provisions for loan losses as a key contributor […]

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For Canada’s Banks This Is “The Next Shoe To Drop”, And Why It Will Drop This Spring

For Canada’s Banks This Is “The Next Shoe To Drop”, And Why It Will Drop This Spring Roughly around the time the market troughed in early February, we asked “After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next?” The reason for this question was simple: we said that “when compared to US banks’ (artificially low) reserves […]

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