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Securities Trading Revenues For Largest U.S. Investment Banks Exceeded $20 Billion For Second Consecutive Quarter
The five largest U.S. investment banks followed up their extremely strong securities trading performance for the first quarter of the year with another strong showing in Q2 2018, with these banks collectively reporting nearly $20.4 billion in tra...
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How Much In FICC Trading Revenues Did The Largest U.S. Banks Report In Q2?
The five largest U.S. investment banks made $11.9 billion in total FICC (fixed income, currencies and commodities) trading revenues over the second quarter of 2018. While this represents a 7% jump compared to the $11.1 billion figure a year ago, ...
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Goldman’s Equity Trading Desk Fell Behind JPMorgan In Q2, And It May Not Be A One-Off Event
An increase in capital market volatility, coupled with upbeat investor sentiment, helped boost equity trading revenues for most investment banks over the second quarter of 2018. Notably, while four of the five largest U.S. investment banks report...
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Total Advisory & Underwriting Fees For Five Largest U.S. Investment Banks Reach Record High In Q2
The five largest U.S investment banks reported nearly $8.8 billion in total investment banking fees for Q2 2018 – a figure that includes their M&A advisory, equity underwriting and debt origination fees for the second quarter of the yea...
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Improvement In Debt Capital Market Activity Helps Debt Origination Fees Recover For Largest U.S. Banks
The five largest U.S investment banks made over $3.8 billion in debt origination fees in the second quarter of 2018 – marking a recovery in this figure from the unusually low $3.6 billion in the previous quarter. That said, total debt capit...
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Five Largest U.S. Banks Capture A 42% Wallet Share In Global Equity Capital Markets In Q2
The five largest U.S investment banks pocketed more than $2.2 billion in equity underwriting fees in Q2 2018 – the best performance in that regard in three years. The magnitude of their windfall in the quarter is demonstrated by the fact th...
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Goldman Leads By A Strong Margin As M&A Advisory Fees For Largest U.S. Banks Crossed $2.7 Billion In Q2
The five largest U.S investment banks reported more than $2.7 billion in M&A advisory fees in Q2 2018 – a sharp increase from the figure of $2.2 billion in the previous quarter, and well ahead of the $2.5 billion figure reported a year ...
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Bank of America’s Shares Look Undervalued, But Flattening Yield Curve Presents A Potential Downside
Investors were not thrilled when Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) reported its results for the second quarter earlier this week, with the bank’s shares falling over trading despite the fact that it produced a solid earnings beat. Investors̵...
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Citigroup Tops Global Debt Origination League Table For Second Consecutive Quarter
Citigroup’s geographically diversified presence, coupled with its focus on the debt capital market over the years, helped the banking giant originate more debt securities than any other investment bank globally for the second consecutive qu...
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Largest Investment Banks Unlikely To Benefit From The Sequential Improvement In Global Debt Origination Fees
The second quarter of the year was largely a lukewarm period for global debt capital markets. This was partially because the period is seasonally slow compared to the first quarter of the year, but primarily because the strong equity market rally...
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Goldman’s Equity Underwriting Fees For Q2 Likely To Cross $500 Million For The First Time Since Early 2015
Goldman Sachs put up an exceptionally strong showing in the global equity capital markets over Q2 to capture a market share in excess of 10% for the period – making it the best performance by the investment bank in three years. While Goldma...
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Strong Equity Capital Market Activity Boosts Underwriting Fees For Investment Banks In Q2
Global equity capital markets built on the strong start this year to report another upbeat quarter in Q2 2018, with companies around the globe raising nearly $203 billion in fresh capital through IPOs and FPOs for the second quarter according t...
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Morgan Stanley Witnessed A Big Jump In M&A Market Share In Q2, But Goldman Still Made The Most Money
The second quarter of 2018 was a strong period for the global M&A advisory industry, with deals worth $889 billion being closed and deals worth a whopping $1.3 trillion being announced over the period. The difference between the two figures h...
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Bank of America Rewards Shareholders With A 53% Payout Hike After Sailing Through Fed’s Stress Test
Investors were looking for a significant increase in capital returns from Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) after the latest round of the Fed’s annual stress, and the banking giant did not disappoint as it announced plans to return as much as $2...
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A Breakdown Of The Loan Portfolios Of The Largest U.S. Banks
The five largest U.S. banks have a combined loan portfolio of almost $3.8 trillion, which represents 40% of the total loans handed out by all U.S. commercial banks. A closer look at their individual loan books helps to explain their commanding ma...
