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...Its price to book value of nearly 3 times trumps that for mortgage-heavy Wall Street banks like JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. But Rocket doesn’t have appreciably higher return on equity....
...Earnings at Wells Fargo jumped 9 per cent in the fourth quarter, despite an increase in loan loss provisions, as the US bank cut costs....
...JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup collectively made $253bn in net interest income (NII) for the whole of 2023 — a 19 per cent jump from 2022’s total....
...Scharf, who took over the top job at the bank in 2019, has been focused on getting that cap, which has been a significant drag on Wells Fargo’s operations, removed....
...Wells Fargo is setting aside as much as $1bn for “unanticipated severance” in the last three months of the year, the bank has said....
...Former Wells Fargo chief executive Tim Sloan, who led the bank’s early efforts to address a burgeoning fake accounts scandal, has sued the lender for more than $34mn over its decision to cancel stock grants...
...But it jumped 34 per cent at JPMorgan to $89.7bn, more than double the increase of the next bank, Wells Fargo, which reported a 16.5 per cent rise....
...Workers at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Albuquerque on Wednesday voted to form a union, making them the first employees of a major US bank to unionise in the latest sign of the resurgence of the labour movement...
...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to a reading of 37, up from 34 in October, marking the first increase in four months....
...Other top banks Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo also recorded drops in lending in the first three months of the year as they revealed results late last week....
...The average two-year mortgage with 60 per cent loan to value was 4.62 per cent in February, according to the central bank....
...It follows a sharp rise in mortgage costs over the past three years as the bank has battled rising inflation....
...Over the past two years, big banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo charged more for loans in lockstep with the Fed lifting interest rates, without passing on the increase...
...The bank said net loans at its retail unit decreased by £1.7bn as more customers paid off their mortgage balances early....
...Lloyds and Wells Fargo make an interesting comparison, and again Lloyds is tempting....
...The jump in interest rates to the highest levels in decades has led to a big increase in mortgage scams, according to banks and regulators....
...Wells Fargo reported a 60 per cent increase in profits in the third quarter, as the bank continues to benefit from higher interest rates....
...Despite this, in recent days executives from the country’s four largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo — said during earnings calls that consumers were resilient....
...The 12 large cap banks followed by Morgan Stanley analysts, including PNC, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, now have more than $180bn of excess common equity tier one capital — a record high...
...However, those refinancing through 2025 should eventually be able to refinance at lower rates (ie, with reduced mortgage payments) since their existing rates were locked in well into the hiking cycle....
...of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, according to a Bloomberg analysts’ consensus....
...The bank also looks well positioned for tougher capital requirements under new Basel III standards....
...Wells Fargo has partnered with asset manager Centerbridge to launch a $5bn private credit fund that will lend to mid-sized US companies, as banks race to find a toehold in the rapidly growing private credit...
...Wells Fargo has partnered with asset manager Centerbridge to launch a $5bn private credit fund that will lend to midsized US companies, as banks race to find a toehold in the rapidly growing private credit...
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