American depositary receipts of Swiss bank Credit Suisse (ticker: CS) plunged more than 47% to about 83 cents after larger rival UBS (UBS) agreed to buy Credit Suisse in a deal valued at about $3.2 billion. The merger of Switzerland’s two largest banks—engineered over the weekend by Swiss authorities—comes against a backdrop of industry turmoil. U.S.-listed shares … Read more
A tumultuous week in the U.S. financial markets ended on an uncertain note Friday after a massive $30 billion injection of big-bank deposits into First Republic Bank failed to calm investors. Last week, the sudden meltdown of three U.S. banks – Silvergate Capital, Signature Bank SBNY and Silicon Valley Bank – began to rekindle concerns … Read more
For the stock market, the forecast calls for storms with a chance of crisis. Stocks alternated strong rallies and sharp declines this past week amid a stretch of bank blowups and attempts to shore up the financial system. The moves in the bond market and interest-rate futures were even more extreme. The volatile trading reflects … Read more
Regional bank stocks fell Friday even after the country’s biggest lenders agreed to inject $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank . The rescue plan, involving many of America’s largest banks, including Bank of America (ticker: BAC), Citigroup (C), and JPMorgan Chase (JPM), initially brought some relief to shares of regional banks but … Read more