EdgeWater 10/13/2010 11:12:17 PM
News / Finance

Financial Stocks Trading Higher (JPM, WFC, NBG, IRE)

Financial Stocks Make Headway

Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) advanced 0.02% to $40.41 on about 2.35 million shares. The company posted a profit of $4.42 billion, or $1.01 a share, in the quarter, compared with $3.55 billion or 82 cents a share, in the year-earlier period.

Revenue dropped to $23.8 billion from $26.6 billion. On a managed basis, revenue totaled $24.3 billion in the latest quarter.

The New York financial firm was expected to earn 90 cents a share on revenue of $24.3 billion, according to a survey of analysts by FactSet Research.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) went up 1.12% to $26.27. The company said late Tuesday that it has no plans to follow other mortgage lenders by declaring a moratorium on foreclosure, as the bank is satisfied with the soundness of its foreclosure affidavit process.

In the past one month of trading sessions, the stock went up more than 1%.

National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) surged 3.85% to $2.70. The company successfully tapped markets with a 1.8 billion euro ($2.5 billion) combined rights issue which was covered 1.83 times.

The group offered 121.4 million new shares at 5.2 euros each on a one-for-five basis to raise 631 million euros. It raised another 1.184 billion euros via a rights offering of equity notes, convertible into common shares also at 5.2 euros each, at a ratio of three-for-eight.

Bank of Ireland (ADR) (NYSE:IRE) jumped 1.11% to $3.64. Bank of Ireland and its subsidiaries provide a range of banking and other financial services. It operates in five segments: Retail Republic of Ireland, Bank of Ireland Life, UK Financial Services, Capital Markets and Group Centre.

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