Many small investors have recently piled into commodities, especially copper, on the assumption that ever-growing demand from developing countries would keep sending prices skyward. Now they are learning a drop in demand is als…
Bank of America (BAC) said talks will continue with bondholders who are demanding it buy back securities backed by billions of dollars of bad mortgages.
Bank of America has been in talks with investors including Pacific Investment Management Co (Pimc…
Bank of America has told U.S. regulators that it has met the final condition that was set on its plan to exit the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. BofA, which repaid $45 billion in TARP funds in December 2009, needed…
Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, bought a stake in BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s largest asset manager.
Mexican billionaire Slim bought a stake worth less than 2% of the asset manager, Bloomberg News reported. Slim spokesman Arturo Elias did…
Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Japan’s third-largest bank, will take a $500 million stake in asset manager BlackRock Inc. (BLK)
Mizuho will buy a total of 3.07 million shares of BlackRock for $163 a share, Bloomberg News said. The purchases will give M…