It's official! Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) and Commerzbank (OTCPK:CRZBY) have confirmed they're in talks about a merger, prompting labor union concerns about possible job cuts and questions from analysts about cost shredding and how the deal would be structured and financed. Germany’s two largest banks issued short statements following meetings of their management boards, indicating a quickening of pace in the merger process, although both warned that a tie-up was far from certain. DB +3.5% premarket.
Big banks – Goldman Sachs (GS), Bank of America (BAC), Morgan Stanley (MS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) all announced dividend increases after passing the Fed’s latest stress tests. Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo both doubled their dividends, while Citigroup (C) was the only one of the six largest banks to keep its dividend unchanged. Morgan Stanley rose 3.3% in the premarket, with Goldman up 1.4%.
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JPM BAC WFC各加碼一次
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