Writedown clouds Commerzbank gain
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Commerzbank reports a record profit in 2007 despite 774m euros of writedowns linked to the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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Bank of America reported quarterly results Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street expectations, hurt by a mortgage-related writedown worth more than $5 billion.
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The banking company is holding up in a tough market.
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Shares in Germany's Commerzbank , which has been persistently cited as a possible takeover target, jumped over 3 percent on Tuesday to near a seven-year peak on market talk that Citigroup  was likely to bid about 45 euros for the bank, traders said.
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The financial data provider is quietly growing its cash machine.
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The firm is bringing its style of banking to new high-growth markets.
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Credit Suisse  trimmed its  full-year write-downs linked to the subprime crisis to 2.0  billion Swiss francs ($1.82 billion) on Tuesday in contrast to  rivals hits by rising charges and raked in billions in new  investments from wealthy clients.
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Credit Suisse  reduced total  write-downs from the subprime crisis on Tuesday in dramatic  contrast to rising charges by rivals, and raked in billions of  new investments from wealthy clients.
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European equity markets traded cautiously higher on Friday, but banks struggled in the wake of further unsettling writedowns related to the credit squeeze.
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Most large US banks appear poised to post higher third-quarter profits, but may struggle to post big gains as sluggish commercial lending and weak stock trading
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Shares in Swiss bank Credit Suisse  fell by around 3 percent on Monday after a Swiss newspaper reported the bank faced writedowns in its commercial mortgage and leveraged-finance business.
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Credit Suisse on Tuesday announced new write-downs of $2.8 billion that cut $1 billion from its profit, in a stunning reminder of the difficulty banks face in current market conditions.
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HVB Group, Germany s second-largest bank by assets, will omit a dividend for the third straight year after the company unexpectedly wrote down the value of its real- estate portfolio by 2.5 billion euros ($3.25 ...
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Business as usual leads to unusually high stock gains for investors.
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Dour CAPS investors sometimes see a silver lining.
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Stocks rebounded in early trading after Goldman Sachs and Best Buy posted solid profit gains and central banks issued billions of dollars in loans to the worldâs commercial banks.
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The Swiss bank won't be the last to announce such a writedown.