Morgan Stanley was in the red after reporting first-quarter earnings Thursday, and analysts said a disappointing investment banking performance was not quite outweighed by growth in the wealth management business.
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Still, Slovenia's challenged banking sector and sluggish economic performance were widely known issues among investors.
Performance of the banking sector is often a good indicator of macro economic health.
Beyond simply assessing the odds of a company or a country not paying its debts, rating agencies are now being asked to second-guess, and ultimately to endorse, the performance of creative banking products.
You'd think, given the massive failures in banking, that the absolute worst performance would be in financials.
Her performance during that Senate banking hearing has been posted on Youtube, where its various versions have been viewed more than a million times.
Analysts have taken this as a clear sign that the company will be focusing on this division after the poor performance of its investment banking division, which many have seen as the reason behind the board's decision to push Wuffli out.
The weak performance of the Dow Jones Banking index should be less surprising, as the group is down 13.6% over the past three months.
The bank was helped by a solid performance at its securities and investment banking divisions.
Since arriving at JPMorgan Chase through a merger in 2003, Dimon has spent hundreds of hours trying to rid the investment-banking division of unnecessary expenses and improve its performance.
Citigroup's second-quarter profit and revenue rose, compared with a year ago, boosted by the performance of its investment and corporate-banking business.
Still, analysts' pay should be based entirely on the performance of their stock picks, and investment banking divisions should have their own, separate army of analysts to work on deals.
Yet the crisis has not broken the banking sector's dominance in mobilising savings and monitoring company performance.
The basic model is true of investment banking, the movies, sport, anywhere where a slight increase in performance leads to out-sized rewards.
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Morgan, given time to improve its own performance and share price, would surely like to reunite the firm that banking laws tore apart in the 1930s.
Picking up the pieces, Banca di Roma gets Bipop-Carire's retail-banking network in the prosperous north of Italy, where its absence has hampered its performance compared with other banks.
Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately held companies and provides allowance for loan and lease losses solutions to the banking industry.
But they are certainly accounting for a larger proportion of banking profits than ever before and, says Charles Peabody, an analyst at Mitchell Securities, they are disguising unexceptional performance in some of these firms' other business lines.
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