NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is concerned about the health of the nation’s regional banks, after a few of them wrote off bad loans to commercial customers in the last two weeks and caused investors to wonder if there might be more bad news to come. Zions Bank, Western Alliance Bank and the investment…
By Alun John, Ankur Banerjee and Manya Saini SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -Fear over credit quality in U.S. regional banks rippled through markets on Friday, dragging global financial stocks lower and reviving memories of the crisis of confidence that shook sentiment just over two years ago. The selloff hit Wall Street’s main indexes, with futures pointing to…
US stocks continued to slide before the bell on Friday as fears spread about regional banks’ exposure to bad loans and US credit quality, spurring an exodus by investors to safe havens. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) fell roughly 0.5%, while those on the S&P 500 (ES=F) sank 0.8%. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq…
Unity Bancorp (UNTY) posted net profit margins of 44.3%, up from last year’s 39.4%, with earnings growth of 35.9% over the past year and an 11.6% annual average over five years. Investors will note that revenue is forecast to grow 9.8% per year going forward, while earnings are expected to rise 3.25% annually. The stock’s…