Asset Comparison and Correlation

Joe Smith, North Carolina's Commissioner of Banks since 2002, has been appointed to oversee the $25 billion national mortgage settlement.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wells Fargo & Co. /quotes/zigman/239557/quotes/nls/wfc WFC -0.19% announced today that the company has finalized an agreement with attorneys general from 49 states and several federal agencies regarding ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lisa Featherngill, a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Financial Planner with 25 years of experience in tax and financial planning, has been named Managing Director of Planning for Abbot Downing.

Before the 2008 financial meltdown, names like Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup, Inc. (C), US Bancorp (USB) and Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) were held in many dividend growth portfolios.

One of the most important considerations with dividend stocks is whether the company's cash flows are strong enough to continue paying the dividend.

By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The National Association for Female Executives named PNC Financial Services Group a Top 50 Company for Executive Women.

By Donal Griffin Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Costs from faulty mortgages and shoddy foreclosures have topped $72 billion at the biggest US banks as they near a settlement of a 50-state probe into the industry's practices.

By ELIOT BROWN and LAURA KUSISTO NEW YORK?The risks of speculative office building, especially during a real-estate slump, are obvious at the 11 Times Square skyscraper here.