BAC-PE - Bank of America Corporation
| Previous Close | 24.88 |
| Open | 24.87 |
| Bid | 24.79 x 1000 |
| Ask | 24.83 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 24.75 - 24.93 |
| 52 Week Range | 21.41 - 25.00 |
| Volume | 16,922 |
| Avg. Volume | 25,653 |
| Market Cap | 293.978B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.63 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 9.00 |
| EPS (TTM) | 2.75 |
| Earnings Date | N/A |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 1.02 (4.11%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jan 29, 2020 |
| 1y Target Est | N/A |
- Barrons.com
Buffett Says Berkshire Hathaway Bought Back $5 Billion in Stock in 2019, but Some Investors Want More
The Berkshire Hathaway CEO tells shareholders in his annual letter that the “price/value equation was modestly favorable at times” for buying back what amounted to about 1% of the company’s shares in 2019.
- Reuters
WRAPUP 4-Buffett defends Berkshire stock push, reassures on future as profit smashes record
Warren Buffett on Saturday forcefully defended Berkshire Hathaway Inc's decision to invest heavily in stocks of companies such as Apple Inc as he labors through a four-year drought since his last major acquisition of a company. Buffett, 89, also used his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders to assure they should not worry about the future of the company, which is "100% prepared" for when he and 96-year-old Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are no longer around. "I do think it's on the right path," said James Armstrong, president of Henry H. Armstrong Associates in Pittsburgh, which invests one-fourth of its assets in Berkshire.
- MarketWatch
Financial stocks in broad decline as 10-year Treasury yield falls below 1.5%
Financial stocks were suffering broad weakness in the premarket session, as the 10-year Treasury yield dropped below the 1.5% mark for the first time since early-September 2019. The SPDR Financial Select Sector ETF shed 0.7% ahead of the open. Among the ETF's more-active components, shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. slid 0.9% to pace all the Dow Jones Industrial Average components in losses ahead of the open, Bank of America Corp. fell 0.7% and Citigroup Inc. fell 0.7%. The 10-year Treasury yield declined 4.5 basis points to 1.480%, amid concerns that the economic impact of COVID-19 may not be contained to China. Lower longer-term yields can weigh on bank earnings, as it narrows the spread between what banks earn on longer-term assets, like loans, which are funded by shorter-term liabilities.
- American City Business Journals
Mentoring Monday: Local businesswomen share career advice
Businesswomen from local institutions such as ALSAC/St. Jude, the University of Memphis and International Paper share career advice.
- Barrons.com
What Warren Buffett Might Tell Investors in His Annual Letter Tomorrow
Berkshire Hathaway investors will be looking at a range of issues, including succession, stock repurchases, dividends, the acquisition environment, the company’s lagging stock price, and its move to pare its longtime Wells Fargo holding.
ReutersTop banks' 2019 commodities revenue climbs 11% -consultancy Coalition
Commodities-related revenue at the world's 12 biggest investment banks gained 11% last year compared to 2018 due to buoyant oil and metals trading, consultancy Coalition said on Friday. Commodities revenue at the 12 banks extended its rebound from 2018, when revenue jumped 45% from its lowest in more than a decade in 2017. During 2019, revenue from commodity trading, selling derivatives to investors and other activities in the sector was $4 billion, the financial industry analytics firm said.
- Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley, E-Trade merger underscores race for scale in financial services
Analysts say the Morgan Stanley and E-Trade tie-up is a matter of survival in a brokerage industry crushed by technology-driven trends in retail investing.
- American City Business Journals
Fidelity spins off data-privacy business
The standalone company is being led by a former Fidelity and TD Ameritrade executive, who will oversee a small group of employees in Boston.
- Bloomberg
Bank of America Eroded U.S. Spoof Case, Laying Path for JPMorgan
(Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp.’s lawyers came through big for their client last year when they whittled down a U.S. case over precious metals spoofing.Justice Department prosecutors wanted to bring criminal charges, but bank lawyers asked for none and prevailed. Prosecutors named Bank of America throughout the draft settlement document but not in the final version.Details of wrangling between bank lawyers and the Justice Department are usually tightly guarded. The previously untold story of the talks are on point now that another big global bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., is poised to conduct its own negotiations with the Justice Department over alleged manipulation of precious metals futures. For JPMorgan, the Bank of America deal sets a low baseline for penalties in the relatively new area of enforcing market-manipulation cases.Over several months of haggling last spring, lawyers for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America argued that senior officials hadn’t been involved in any manipulation and the bank’s overall compliance culture was strong, according to several people who requested anonymity to describe the talks. The lawyers also pointed out that the handful of previous spoofing investigations of banks had resulted in civil rather than criminal settlements.Bank representatives ultimately persuaded the U.S. to back off from a resolution that would have required its Merrill Lynch subsidiary to show up in court and admit to criminal conduct. The bank’s lawyers also prevailed on Justice Department prosecutors to excise multiple appearances of the Bank of America’s name from a draft of the settlement, according to two of the people.Spokesmen for the Justice Department and Bank of America declined to comment.JPMorgan arguably faces deeper peril. U.S. authorities have alleged that traders there engaged in an eight-year conspiracy through 2016, spanning desks in New York, London and Singapore, to move gold and silver futures prices to their advantage by placing orders they didn’t intend to execute. Six current and former employees have been charged, including the bank’s global head of base and precious metals trading. Prosecutors are looking to build a criminal case against the bank itself, Bloomberg has reported. JPMorgan declined to comment.JPMorgan’s Role in Metals Spoofing Is Under U.S. Criminal ProbeThough each spoofing case is unique, the Justice Department has identified these inquiries as important to ensure the integrity of financial markets. Several traders have pleaded guilty to spoofing in recent years, and regulators have reached civil settlements with four banks.Bank of America was the first to face potential criminal charges. The case began in 2018 when prosecutors in Chicago charged two former Merrill Lynch commodities traders with spoofing over several years when Merrill was owned by Bank of America.Two-Tier PlanBy early last year, U.S. prosecutors had internally arrived at a two-tiered resolution, according to the people familiar with the matter. The plan was to charge the Merrill Lynch unit but agree not to prosecute, provided the unit adhere to an improved compliance program -- a so-called deferred prosecution agreement. The parent company would enter into a non-prosecution agreement. The action would be accompanied by a fine of $15 million to $30 million.Like most companies dealing with Justice Department investigations, the bank turned to a Washington lawyer with industry expertise and government connections. Reginald Brown heads the banking practice at one of the bank’s outside law firms, WilmerHale. A veteran of the George W. Bush White House, Brown has cultivated ties to officials in Democratic and Republican administrations.Brown and his legal team met with Robert Zink, head of the Justice Department’s fraud section, and one of his deputies to discuss the government’s proposed resolution. Brown argued that Bank of America’s relatively clean history with the Justice Department, combined with evidence that the spoofing misconduct was confined to a few traders long gone, merited a favorable outcome.He and his legal team also considered the prospect of a deferred prosecution, with its criminal charge hanging over the bank, to be an unwarranted punishment for Merrill.Zink listened but didn’t make any deal. Brown then sought a meeting with one of Zink’s superiors, and ended up getting an audience with John Cronan, principal deputy assistant attorney general to Brian Benczkowski, the chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division. Such requests are often part of the back-and-forth between the government and corporate defense attorneys.After the Cronan meeting, the bank’s lawyers asked for and received an audience with Benczkowski. Like Brown, Benczkowski served in the Bush administration, as an official in the Justice Department.Before Brown met with Benczkowski, fraud section prosecutors softened their position, according to one of the people, telling their chief that they would be willing to accept a deferred prosecution with Merrill Lynch only, and not involve the parent company.Settlement MatrixFor the Benczkowski meeting in mid-May, Brown brought along David Leitch, Bank of America’s general counsel, a veteran of both Bush administrations.The legal team showed officials a matrix of U.S. bank prosecutions and settlements over a decade. The spoofing conduct at Merrill, they argued, was limited to a few traders and the potential damages were small -- in contrast with what they said was far more pervasive misconduct at other banks accused of manipulating interest and currency rates.The legal team also pointed out that Bank of America, unlike competitors including JPMorgan, had not been forced to take any guilty pleas in the aftermath of the financial crisis during the Obama administration. A criminal charge, even one that would likely get withdrawn as part of a deferred prosecution agreement, would impact the bank and create a reputational issue, they said.The argument ultimately prevailed. Leadership in the criminal division downshifted to a non-prosecution agreement with Merrill.In June, Merrill Lynch signed the non-prosecution pact and agreed to pay a $25 million fine to the Justice Department. Merrill admitted that the conduct was unlawful and amounted to commodities fraud but no charges were brought against it.Although the deal required Bank of America to continue to cooperate with prosecutors in any cases against individuals, the bank’s name was scrubbed from the settlement that had been drawn up. It appeared a couple times in the attachments accompanying the agreement. The final settlement refers to two entities, Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc. (“MLCI”) and its parent, “MLCI Parent.”Bank of America didn’t keep its name out of the proceedings altogether, however. The Justice Department press release announcing the deal identified the bank by name as Merrill’s parent.The department credited the bank for its cooperation in the matter and for its internal compliance program. At the time of the agreement, the bank cited its cooperation and added that it was “disappointed by the conduct of the former Merrill Lynch Commodities employees.”To contact the reporters on this story: Greg Farrell in New York at gregfarrell@bloomberg.net;Tom Schoenberg in Washington at tschoenberg@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, ;Winnie O'Kelley at wokelley@bloomberg.net, Steve DicksonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley CEO has been tracking E-Trade for close to 20 years
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has been eyeing E-Trade for years.
- Insider Monkey
5 Most Popular Financial Stocks Among Hedge Funds
One of the best tools for ordinary investors who are on the hunt for new ideas is 13F filings. Once every quarter, hedge funds with at least $100 million in total positions in publicly traded US stocks are required to disclose the number of shares and the total value of its positions in each of […]
- Business Wire
Bank of America Community Development Banking Provided a Record $4.88 Billion in Lending and Investing in 2019
Bank of America Community Development Banking (CDB) provided a record $4.88 billion in loans, tax credit equity investments, and other real estate development solutions, surpassing last year’s record of $4.7 billion. CDB delivers innovative financing solutions to help create affordable housing for individuals, families, seniors, students, veterans, the formerly homeless, and those with special needs. These efforts are part of the company’s commitment to deploying capital to address global issues outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Bloomberg
Indonesia Resumes Rate Cuts Amid Growing Concerns Over Virus
(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate after a three-month pause, and lowered the growth forecast as the spread of the coronavirus threatens the outlook for Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.Bank Indonesia lowered the seven-day reverse repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 4.75% Thursday, joining a string of other central banks around the region that have eased policy in recent weeks to counter the impact of the virus. Nineteen of the 31 economists in a Bloomberg survey predicted the central bank’s move while the rest saw no change.Indonesia is yet to record a single case of the deadly virus but officials have become increasingly worried about a slump in trade and tourism after China shut factories to contain the outbreak and both countries restricted travel. Bank Indonesia’s resumption in rate cuts after four reductions last year comes on top of a fiscal boost from the government to cushion the economy, which was already slowing last year because of the U.S.-China trade war.The central bank on Thursday lowered its forecast for global growth to 3% from 3.1%, and sees the domestic economy expanding 5%-5.4% this year compared to a previous range of 5.1%-5.5%.Bank Indonesia will “keep a close watch on global and domestic economic developments in utilizing an accommodative policy mix space,” Governor Perry Warjiyo said, signaling the latest cut may not be the last in the current easing cycle. The board remains concerned about a hit to trade and investment from the virus, he said.Foreign exchange revenue from tourism was likely to fall by $1.3 billion, the governor said, adding that provisions related to the macroprudential intermediation ratio would also be adjusted in a bid to boost lending by commercial banks. The central bank also cut its 2020 forecast for credit growth to 9%-11% from 10%-12% previously.The yield on Indonesia’s 10-year government bonds was little changed after the decision, while the rupiah was headed for its biggest drop in more than two weeks.“The new 2020 growth forecast of BI still looks optimistic to me considering the risks from COVID-19,” said Euben Paracuelles, an economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Singapore. “I’m therefore keeping my forecast that BI cuts again by another 25 basis points in the second quarter as growth disappoints, and we’re still not seeing clear indications of more fiscal support.”Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Wednesday the virus outbreak will curb growth and put government revenue under pressure. The Trade Ministry has also warned of a deeper hit to exports, which already slumped in January, putting the current account deficit at risk.“The growth outlook is weak. We have a 5.1% figure but we have highlighted the risk of growth testing the 5% level in the first half of the year,” said Mohamed Faiz Nagutha, an economist with Bank of America Securities in Singapore. “We see the policy rate at 4.5% by mid-year,” he said.While inflation has so far remained subdued, coming in at 2.7% in January, supply disruptions in China are pushing up some food costs, like garlic, which surged almost 70% in Jakarta in just one week.A relatively stable currency provides the central bank with sufficient room to ease policy now. The rupiah, which has weakened in recent weeks, is still up about 0.7% against the dollar since the start of the year, making it the best-performer in Asia.(Updates with market reaction in seventh paragraph)\--With assistance from Rieka Rahadiana and Yoga Rusmana.To contact the reporters on this story: Karlis Salna in Jakarta at ksalna@bloomberg.net;Arys Aditya in Jakarta at aaditya5@bloomberg.net;Eko Listiyorini in Jakarta at elistiyorini@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Nasreen Seria at nseria@bloomberg.net, Karthikeyan Sundaram, Thomas Kutty AbrahamFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters
Bank of America warns negative U.S. rates could hurt operations
Bank of America Corp cited the possibility of negative interest rates in the United States as a business risk for the first time in a filing on Wednesday. The unconventional policy measure has been a talking point for President Donald Trump, who has critiqued the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates earlier in his presidency. Historically low interest rates since the 2008 financial crisis have limited how much banks can make from their lending services.
- Bloomberg
Fed Officials Saw Policy Appropriate ‘For a Time’ Amid Risks
(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials indicated they could leave interest rates unchanged for many more months amid concerns about a persistent undershoot of their inflation goal, potential room to further boost employment and risks stemming from the coronavirus and trade.Minutes of the Jan. 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, released Wednesday in Washington, showed that several officials might support a mild overshoot of the 2% inflation target, indicating they see little need to pre-empt rising prices. What’s more, new shocks such as the coronavirus are more likely to keep prices subdued as global demand weakens.“Several participants suggested that inflation modestly exceeding 2% for a period would be consistent with the achievement of the committee’s longer-run inflation objective and that such mild overshooting might underscore the symmetry of that objective,” according to the minutes.The Fed’s preferred price measure rose 1.6% last year, and central bankers have failed to achieve their target on a sustainable basis since the target was announced in 2012.“There are a few doves on the committee that are implicitly saying they want to do a make-up strategy,” where a central bank compensates for undershoots with overshoots on inflation, said Joseph Song, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America Corp. in New York.The bank forecasts the Fed will maintain the federal funds rate in its current range of 1.5% to 1.75% through 2021. However, “most participants think that the insurance cuts they did last year will put the economy in a place where inflation will pick up again,” he said.Futures traders maintained expectations for the Fed to lower interest rates at least once this year, pricing in about 40 basis points of easing by the end of December. The 10-year Treasury yield were little changed at 1.56%, while the Bloomberg dollar index and the S&P 500 held gains.The U.S. economy began 2020 on solid footing with payrolls rising by 225,000 in January. The jobless rate edged up to 3.6%, still near a half-century low, while average hourly earnings climbed 3.1% from a year earlier. The coronavirus has raised questions about global growth, including the potential for spillovers affecting the U.S.Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers in semi-annual testimony last week “it’s too uncertain to even speculate” on how the outbreak would impact the economy or if it could present a “material change” to the outlook, though he said the impact on China should be “substantial.”U.S. central bankers are counting on household consumption -- aided by low interest rates -- to sustain growth and help lift inflation back to the 2% target.Officials saw consumption spending as likely to remain on a firm footing, “supported by strong labor-market conditions, rising incomes, and healthy household balance sheets.”Elsewhere in the minutes, policy makers grappled with a variety of issues: Inflation ranges as a tool to achieve their 2% target, how to adapt policy to combat financial-stability risks, and how they would wind down ongoing repurchase agreement and Treasury-bill purchases.Repos, BillsThe staff official in charge of open-market operations told policy makers that in the second quarter, reserve conditions would “support slowing the pace of Treasury bill purchases.”U.S. central bankers are buying $60 billion of bills per month to boost reserve balances and plan to continue the operation into the second quarter. They are also conducting term and overnight repurchase agreements at least through April to offset seasonal demands for payments and cash.Within their ongoing framework review, officials held their most substantive discussion to date about the possibility of transforming their inflation target into a range. The review began in early 2019 and is meant to assess whether the Fed has the right tools and strategies to deal with persistently low interest rates and low inflation.The committee considered inflation ranges based on three concepts: an “uncertainty” range, meant to communicate how wide inflation outcomes might vary and still be considered consistent with the target; an “indifference” range, emphasizing that policy need not respond to deviations within the range; and an “operational” range that could be used when officials wanted inflation to favor one side.\--With assistance from Jordan Yadoo, Christopher Condon and Benjamin Purvis.To contact the reporter on this story: Craig Torres in Washington at ctorres3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Margaret Collins at mcollins45@bloomberg.net, Ana Monteiro, Scott LanmanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- American City Business Journals
Bank of America plans another Greater Cincinnati branch
Bank of America Corp. has finalized a location and time frame to open its third Greater Cincinnati bank branch.
- Zacks
Bank of America (BAC) is a Top Dividend Stock Right Now: Should You Buy?
Dividends are one of the best benefits to being a shareholder, but finding a great dividend stock is no easy task. Does Bank of America (BAC) have what it takes? Let's find out.
- Investing.com
Stocks - Wall Street Hits Record Highs on Signs Coronavirus Spread Slowing
By Yasin Ebrahim
- Kiplinger
Every Warren Buffett Stock Ranked: The Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio
When you think of Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.B) equity portfolio, most of which was selected by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, you very well might think of storied blue-chip stocks such as American Express (AXP), Coca-Cola (KO), and more recently, Apple (AAPL).Oh, those are still major components in the Berkshire portfolio. But a deeper dive into Warren Buffett's stocks reveals a more complicated picture - and a few more surprising holdings.Berkshire Hathaway held positions in 49 separate companies (across 52 different stocks thanks to firms with multiple share classes) as of the end of 2019, up from 46 during the third quarter. That's according to its most recent 13F regulatory filing, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 14. But the portfolio of "Buffett stocks" isn't as diversified as the number might suggest. Some are new positions so small they equate to a pinky toe in the water. Other holdings are immaterial leftovers from earlier bets that the Oracle of Omaha has mostly exited, just not completely.Nonetheless, Berkshire Hathaway's equity portfolio remains one of the best ways to identify which stocks legendary investor Warren Buffett feels are worth his time and attention - for the most part. Just remember: A few of these Buffett stocks were actually picked by portfolio managers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, who many believe are the top candidates to succeed "Uncle Warren" whenever he decides to step down.Here, we examine each and every holding to give investors a better understanding of the entire Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. SEE ALSO: 64 Dividend Stocks You Can Count On in 2020
- Bloomberg
Mexico’s Finance Chief Confident of 2020 Economy Turnaround
(Bloomberg) -- Having suffered the worst economic performance in a decade last year, Mexican Finance Minister Arturo Herrera sees reasons to be more optimistic about Latin America’s second-largest economy in 2020.In his first sit-down interview with English-language media this year, Herrera says that after almost a decade of expansion since the global financial crisis, last year’s 0.1% contraction was more natural and in line with disappointing economic activity worldwide. Now, things are looking better.His argument goes: inflation and debt levels are in check, the peso is stable, and the troubled state oil company known as Pemex has halted a production decline. The main boost for the country comes from the ratification of the reworked North American free trade agreement.“The Mexican economy’s performance is very different with this agreement,” he told Bloomberg News at the National Palace in Mexico City on Monday. “This is one of the great advantages we have now.”Production chains may invest more in North America based on the certainty created by the treaty, known as USMCA, especially as competitors in Asia are beset by trade wars and a health crisis, he said.Read More: USMCA Ratification More Relief Than Opportunity For MexicoHerrera’s ministry has even kept its 2% growth forecast for the year, although he won’t say whether that will change when it reports a preliminary budget proposal to congress in April.His optimism isn’t fully shared by Mexico watchers. Economists have been steadily reducing the country’s 2020 growth estimates to an average of just 1% from 1.7% six months ago, with Bank of America Corp. even forecasting an expansion as little as 0.5%.Growth in 2020 may be stronger than 2019 due to the recent stabilization in oil output and some recovery in construction, but it won’t return to levels of recent years, said Alonso Cervera, chief Latin America economist at Credit Suisse Group AG in Mexico City, who forecasts a 0.7% expansion.“I’m not too hopeful of a strong recovery, and neither is the market,” Cervera said. “The main issue behind the weakness in the Mexican economy is gross fixed investment, which is a function of fiscal austerity on the public sector side and subdued confidence in the private sector.”Gross fixed investment, which includes company spending in factories and machinery, ran down last year to levels not seen since the 2009 global crisis.Inflation, RatesHerrera says that an area that is likely to provide more stimulus is monetary policy: Subdued inflation and peso stability mean Mexico “clearly” has room to keep cutting interest rates.“I’m not the only one saying it. It’s something that’s said by the Western Hemisphere director of the International Monetary Fund,” Herrera said.Banco de Mexico has been lowering its policy rate since August as declining oil output and uncertainty over President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s policies stalled the economy. Even after reducing the key rate by 1.25 percentage point since August, Mexico has one of the highest inflation-adjusted interest rates in the world.Analysts expect the bank to cut borrowing costs by another half percentage point in the rest of 2020, ending the year at 6.5%.Alejandro Werner, the Western Hemisphere director of the IMF, said last month that Mexico has “significant space” to keep cutting interest rates to bolster growth, noting that other Latin American countries have reduced borrowing costs recently.Herrera said his ministry is informally polling banks and companies on their financing choices, including asking why several bond sales this year have been issued in dollars rather than pesos. He said some have responded that the market is too concentrated in a few large pension funds known as Afores, leaving less space for local issuances.Read More: Zero-Growth Year Is Price AMLO Pays for Mexican ‘Transformation’Inflation ended 2019 at 2.83%, the second-lowest December rate in the 2000s. It has rebounded slightly to 3.24% last month, but is still within the central bank’s target range of 3%, plus or minus one percentage point.The strength of the Mexican peso, which on Monday reached its highest intraday level in almost a year and a half, is explained by factors including the government’s fiscal responsibility and the nation’s relatively high interest rates, Herrera said.He also reiterated the government’s commitment to a “stable” and “flexible” currency. The peso is the best performing major currency against the dollar so far this year.“It’s very risky for somebody to start playing with the exchange rate policy,” he said. “It has cost Mexico a lot of work to understand this and we’re very respectful.”(Updates with comment from analyst in eighth paragraph and ministry’s informal poll in 16th paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Nacha Cattan in Mexico City at ncattan@bloomberg.net;Eric Martin in Mexico City at emartin21@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Daniel Cancel at dcancel@bloomberg.net, ;Juan Pablo Spinetto at jspinetto@bloomberg.net, Matthew Bristow, Jiyeun LeeFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters
Bank of America veteran Renier to chair industrials unit - memo
Veteran banker Jean-Eudes Renier is taking on a new role as chairman of Bank of America's global industrials investment banking unit as a part of a leadership reshuffle aimed at bolstering the bank's client coverage. Renier, who has been co-heading global industrials investment banking out of London for more than a decade, will drop management responsibilities to focus entirely on building relationships with key clients, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
- Reuters
Lonza poised to mandate banks for specialty chemicals spinoff - sources
ZURICH/FRANKFURT, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Swiss drug contract manufacturer Lonza is preparing to mandate banks for a stock market listing of its chemicals unit as it focuses on the faster-growing pharmaceutical and biotech companies business, two people close to the matter said. UBS and Bank of America are expected to take the lead roles in the spin-off or initial public offering of Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI), the sources added, asking not to be named as the matter is private. UBS and Bank of America declined to comment.
- MarketWatch
Veteran strategist eyes health care and financials in anticipation of ‘choppy and frustrating’ markets
Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Chicago fund manager Nuveen, says markets are priced for good news. But he also doesn’t expect a recession.
- Yahoo Finance
Warren Buffett's Berkshire adds Kroger stock, scales back on Wells Fargo, Goldman and BofA
Warren Buffett's holding company has added a familiar name, and scaled back on a few others.
