Lehman net falls on writedowns
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  posted a 3.2 percent decline in quarterly earnings on Tuesday as the U.S. investment bank wrote down mortgage and leveraged loan assets, but the results beat expectations and its shares rose.
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Wachovia Corp , the fourth-largest U.S. bank, on Friday said third-quarter profit fell, hurt by write-downs related to difficult credit market conditions.
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, the nation's second-largest bank, surprised Wall Street today with a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings.
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Lehman Brothers, the first of the big US investment banks to report results, says its profits have fallen.
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker after disappointing inflation data with Alliance & Leicester down after reporting a fall in core operating profit, held back by large scale write-downs.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, after disappointing quarterly results from companies such as Comcast Corp  and as investors worried financial services companies would report more big losses from the credit crisis.
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Morgan Stanley follows Lehman Brothers' lead and reports a small fall in three-month profits.
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Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Friday after a cautious earnings outlook at American Express (NYSE:AXP) added to worries that US consumer spending is headed for a sharp slowdown.
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Morgan Stanley yesterday said third-quarter profit sank 17 percent, as the number two US investment bank was forced to write down nearly $1 billion worth of loans amid the summer's global credit crisis.
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Asset manager Federated Investors (FII.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday reported lower quarterly profits as the firm&#39;s assets declined in difficult market conditions.
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Investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. , one of the nation's largest mortgage bond underwriters, said on Thursday quarterly earnings fell by a third as trouble in the mortgage market hurt bond trading revenue and it wrote down assets.
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Another bank took an ax to its asset valuations Friday, as the parade of markdowns induced by the recent credit crunch continued. The latest ten-digit chop came from Wachovia Bank, which said it wrote down loans and other securities by a total of $1.3 billion in the third quarter, contributing to an overall profit decline [...].
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London equities fell on Tuesday after news of increased full-year writedowns at Barclays (NYSE:BCS) took the shine off banking stocks. There was further pressure in the sector after surprise news of fresh $2.85bn losses at Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS).
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Stocks fell on Monday as savers demanded their money back from embattled British bank Northern Rock , adding to global credit concerns before an expected U.S. interest rate cut this week.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc  said on Thursday that quarterly earnings fell 11 percent, hurt by writedowns in bond trading, but results beat analysts' average expectations.
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US stocks were weaker on Thursday during another volatile session in which concerns about further writedowns linked to credit market losses spooked the market.
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Dollar General (DG:NYSE - news - research) fell Thursday after reporting cost overruns that left first-quarter earnings a penny shy of Wall Street estimates.