After UBS acquired Credit Suisse and close to a dozen financial institutions injected $30 billion into First Republic Bank four days ago, S&P Global downgraded First Republic’s shares to junk status on Sunday. Investors are concerned that the cash infusion from 11 major financial institutions may not address the bank’s liquidity issues. First Republic’s shares
In this article FRC NYCB UBS CSG.N-CH USB THS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A person walks past a First Republic Bank branch in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., March 13, 2023. Mike Segar | Reuters Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: First Republic — Shares tanked
Solana rose by as much as 8% to start the week, as the token moved toward a one-month high. The token climbed for a second straight session, as the global banking crisis pushed investors towards cryptocurrencies. Chainlink was also higher, hitting a three-week high. Solana (SOL) Solana (SOL) moved closer to a one-month high to
Bills seeking to restrict or expand municipal bond issuance and rein in debt practices are on the menu for Texas lawmakers during the legislative session that commenced in January and wraps up in late May. Numerous bond-related measures are among a record 8,153 bills and joint resolutions introduced in the Republican-controlled legislature by a March
Federal regulators have extended the bidding period for Silicon Valley Bank, the California lender whose collapse earlier this month sparked a broader banking crisis, while also expanding the pool of institutions they are willing to accept as potential buyers of assets and deposits. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said on Monday it would accept separate
The UK regulatory pendulum has been halted in mid-swing. The direction of travel for bank regulation in recent years has clearly been in the financial services sector’s favour. Aided by a government eager to find benefits of post-Brexit regulatory freedom, there has been a sense of opportunity to tweak or modify, to strip off gold-plating
Amid turmoil in the financial sector and uncertainty ahead, the Federal Reserve will likely approve a 0.25 percentage point increase at this week’s policy meeting. That will mark one year since the central bank began the current rate-raising cycle. Over the last 12 months, inflation spiked to a 40-year high and only recently started
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In this video we will take a look at trading the AMD earnings with an options butterfly. If you never did a butterfly spread on earnings, then I will share with you details on how you can trade earnings exceptionally cheap and take a cheap shot at earnings without risking too much money if the
On Sunday evening, March 19, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the U.S. Federal Reserve, along with several central banks including the Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and the Swiss National Bank, announced a coordinated action to enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing U.S. dollar
The sale of Credit Suisse to UBS is the most dramatic moment in global banking since the financial crisis of 2008-09. It has also thrust into the spotlight the reforms that the global financial system has undergone in the past 15 years. Since the last crisis, regulators have sought to transfer more of the risk
Unlike recent Federal Open Market Committee meetings, where the market knew what to expect, this week’s could go one of several ways, analysts said. “Economist and market projections of the likely path of the Fed funds rate are all over the map and appear to be shifting dramatically on a daily basis,” said Scott Anderson,
Nonrecourse carveout guaranties are part of the landscape for commercial real estate loans, much as landmines are part of the landscape for recent war zones. These nonrecourse carveout landmines have often exploded dramatically in the faces of carveout guarantors. Guaranties triggered full recourse for the loan if the borrower violated one of several dozen single
Arbitrum, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, announced the airdrop of its ARB governance token on March 16, with eligible receivers expected to get the token by March 23. The hype around its airdrop has now helped another layer-2 solution, zkSync, to see significant week-over-week growth. ZkSync is another layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, supporting
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) boasted over $200 billion in assets and was a lifeline for crypto companies. Notably, it was one of the few institutions offering services to crypto companies in the United States as other banks shied away from the sector, fearing risk and the possibility of a sudden regulatory crackdown. The downfall of
USD Coin (USDC), the world’s second-largest stablecoin, may simply have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place was Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a commercial bank with $209 billion in assets, where USDC issuer Circle had deposited $3.3 billion of its cash reserves for safekeeping. The time was the present: one of
Credit Suisse has told staff that it will continue to hand out bonuses and pay rises as planned this year, despite the bank having to be rescued by UBS in a SFr3bn ($3.25bn) deal over the weekend. Shortly after the Swiss lender was saved from bankruptcy on Sunday night, chair Axel Lehmann and chief executive
In this article FRC KEY USB ENPH PACW ZION UBSG-CH UBS CSG.N-CH CS NYCB .BBKA SBNY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT First Republic Bank headquarters is seen on March 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the market’s opening bell.
Bitcoin was trading above $28,000 on Monday, as cryptocurrencies extended a bull run to start the week. This upwards sentiment comes as the Federal Reserve and other major central banks made coordinated moves to enhance market liquidity. Ethereum continues to trade close to $1,800. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) started the week trading above $28,000, as markets
Bond investors woke up with a big problem on Monday. Sunday’s emergency takeover of struggling Swiss bank Credit Suisse by its rival UBS deepened a rout in AT1 bonds. These instruments are designed to be wiped out when an issuing bank hits financial trouble, reducing its debts. Swiss regulators obliterated about $17bn of Credit Suisse
Tokenized asset issuance platform Synthetix has secured a $20 million investment through a new partnership with Web3 investment and quantitative trading firm DWF Labs. The market making and algorithmic trading company acquired $15 million worth of Synthetix’ native token SNX paid for with USD Coin (USDC) in March 2023. DWF Labs will be tasked with