日期：2007-10-09 07:36:18 点击：0 评论：0

China's pioneering US bank acquisition ticks all the right boxes. Minsheng Bank has gained a US presence in a business it knows well: its target, UCBH Holdings (NASDAQ:UCBH), is a San Francisco-based community bank serving Chinese family businesses.

日期：2007-10-09 07:36:03 点击：0 评论：0

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Does hardware have a softer side? Home Depot thinks so. It is testing a warm-and-fuzzy approach to selling hammers, lighting and garage doors that is targeted at female shoppers. Responding to long-time criticism that its war

日期：2007-10-09 07:35:49 点击：0 评论：0

We told you last week about a report by Genworth Financial that found a disproportionately large percentage of mortgages made to African American and Hispanic home buyers were high-cost subprime loans. Here's how you can protect yourself from credit

日期：2007-10-06 05:06:52 点击：0 评论：0

Dear Dr. Don, How could a bank allow a customer to withdraw $1,000 out of his checking account if the customer was already in overdraft? Please note that the customer didn't even have overdraft protection. I would also like to know how a bank could

日期：2007-10-06 04:47:03 点击：0 评论：0

If nothing else, the long bid battle between Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and a Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium for ABN Amro will be remembered for the bidders' mastery of historical revisionism. When Barclays launched its bid for the whole of ABN, it w

日期：2007-10-06 04:46:47 点击：0 评论：0

The summer turbulence prompted a number of central bankers to pull their policy parachutes. Since August, base rates have been cut in seven countries, most notably by half a percentage point in the US. In markets considered a dead certainty for incre

日期：2007-10-06 03:39:02 点击：0 评论：0

Here's what seems like good news: The response rate for those annoying credit card offers we get in the mail has been falling. (Learn how to opt out.) According to Curtis Arnold of cardratings.com: "In 1998, credit card issuers could count on a respo

日期：2007-10-06 01:31:45 点击：0 评论：0

Every now and then, I read something that makes me gasp. It happened just recently, when I learned about a Public Citizen report on arbitration in the credit card industry. Here's how it began: "Consumers who seek justice in disputes with their credi

日期：2007-10-05 20:51:50 点击：0 评论：0

My bank has just raised its fees. The stop-payment fee has risen 25%, to $25. The incoming wire transfer fee is up 20%, from $10 to $12. The bounced-check fee is up 10%, from $30 to $33. Bank of America (NYSE: - ) recently increased the fee it charge

日期：2007-10-05 20:51:15 点击：0 评论：0

Do you know where your money goes? I'm sure a few of you know exactly where it goes: You fire up Quicken, which you update diligently for every penny you spend, and you can tell me that 29.2% of your after-tax income in the last 12 months has gone to

日期：2007-10-05 20:50:55 点击：0 评论：0

When is a savings bank not a savings bank? La Caixa, Spain's third largest financial group, is spinning off its portfolio of industrial holdings but will retain a stake of about 80 per cent in the new Criteria CaixaCorp. For now, investors will essen

日期：2007-10-04 05:53:48 点击：0 评论：0

It's that time of year again: open enrollment. Soon you'll be getting a package in the mail outlining all the health care options you have. Here's what you can expect and how to get the best plan. 1: Hold onto your wallets Health insurance is getting

日期：2007-10-03 21:59:46 点击：0 评论：0

Australia appears to be falling back on the age-old good bank/bad bank model to restructure Rams Home Loans, one of the country's biggest casualties of the global credit crunch. Westpac Banking Corp (NYSE:WBK), Australia's fourth largest bank, is to

日期：2007-10-03 21:59:26 点击：0 评论：0

Can Chuck Prince survive this one? The Citigroup (NYSE:C) chief executive has been under pressure for several quarters on a number of fronts: the share price, expense control and a general sense that the company was simply too unwieldy to be managed

日期：2007-10-03 21:59:11 点击：0 评论：0

One can imagine the heads of Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) or Merrill Lynch screaming at their finance gonks: "Get that profit warning ready by the end of the week or else!" Monday's third quarter downgrade by UBS (NYSE:UBS), with Citigroup (NYSE:C) puttin