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Commercial loan delinquencies are rising at a fast pace
Why are delinquencies in commercial loans rising so at the fastest pace in nearly 20 years and why are regulators so concerned about these losses? First, let's look at the nature of this market for some answers:
The majority of home loans were ...
The landmine of commercial real estate
Some retailers will be OK after this holiday season. They are big enough or have strong enough balance sheets to keep them afloat.
But commercial real estate loans could push some businesses to the wall, and soon.
According to the AP, one expert ...
Is the commercial banking industry solvent?
Have we reached the bottom yet? That's a question that people ask me from time to time. I haven't got an answer yet, but today I have some numbers that may give us an idea. And the preliminary verdict is: No!
Why? Because the commercial banking ...
Commercial real estate market sinks
Listen to what Richard Parkus of Deutsche Bank has to say about commercial real estate. He said that "We are not only not approaching stability, we are at a period of maximum deterioration."
We have often said that after the collapse of residential ...
Is commercial property debt the next 'black hole'?
Leon Black, head of Apollo Management, uses the term "black hole" to describe the pressure being put on commercial banks from nonperforming commercial loans. He estimates that it would take $2 trillion to clean up the mess.
So far losses from ...
Commercial mortgages: Next to collapse?
The New York Times reports that since we've had such a catastrophic run with home mortgages, it's time to watch the collapse of commercial ones. The same names surface when it comes to the collapse of our financial system -- in the case of commercial ...
Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley to become commercial banks
Late Sunday night it was reported by the Associated Press that the Federal Reserve announced it had approved the request of the two investment banks, Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), to become commercial banks and to take ...
Comfort Zone Investing: Survival of the fittest -- letting some banks fail
Bank failures are good. They get rid of banks that are mismanaged and have no business being in banking. Bad management at many banks made lots of bad loans and deserve to go under. The biggest example was Washington Mutual. And Countrywide belongs ...
Bailed out banks under marketing fire from more competent peers
The New York Times has a nice write-up on the small, local banks that are taking advantage of their bailout virginity to lure in customers who might prefer to do business with a bank that isn't on welfare. USAA Federal Savings Bank (Full Disclosure: ...
Pigs and panties: Russian banks stuck with unexpected collateral
What happens when a bank has to accept the collateral posted for loans? Well, in Russia, it's like the punchline to a bad Yakov Smirnoff joke. "In Russia, when a bank takes collateral, it has to set up a pigpen!"
Well, this is exactly what happened ...
Chinese stocks plunge on call for banks to raise capital
Chinese stocks fell sharply on Tuesday. The catalyst was a call by bank regulators to raise more capital. Chinese banks will be required to raise $43 billion in new capital. Regulators have asked big banks to formulate plans for raising this new ...
Mortgage mess impacting commercial real estate lending
Commercial real estate developers are no longer immune to the credit crunch hitting residential real estate owners and developers, according to today's Wall Street Journal. Yesterday in visible proof of the problem, a Las Vegas casino developer, ...
Banks fail to absorb commercial real estate loan losses
Remember the havoc in the financial markets when the residential bubble burst last year? Are we in for a rerun this year or next year?
You are probably thinking that such an event could not occur. Well think again. There is a report that says that we ...
Amid financial crisis, community banks demonstrate their worth
Economists and analysts generally agree that the bank sector is still fertile ground for consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions. (Fertile for mergers and acquisitions, that is, provided Bank A can easily discern what's on Bank B's balance sheet.) ...
So much for Glass-Steagall: Will Citi split its investment and commercial banks?
It's back to the future time at Citigroup (NYSE: C). We can just pretend that the last 11 years never happened. As I posted, that's when Sandy Weill merged his Travelers with Citi, which led to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. But as I suggested ...
Nuclear power is on the comeback trail
Apple backs AT&T in continuing spat with Verizon
Closing Bell: The recession is still over, still... do you feel it?
