Bank of America Corp (BAC)

There have been some remarkable percentage gains from this morning's lows. Some examples: +6%, +4%, +8%, +5%, +6%, etc.

In addition to taking a trading long rental in  , I have added to $51, $54 and $24.10 in the early going.

I have added to these longs at the opening: Bank of America , Goldman Sachs , Citigroup and the aforementioned CBS .

Here is a list of stocks I own in my pension plan:  ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,  .

For about two years my personal pension plan has been entirely in short term Treasuries. This morning I abandoned that strategy and I have taken positions (on the opening) in the following stocks: , , , , and . I have no current intention of trading...

I am expanding my long exposure this morning - adding to , and .

I have added further to my trading layer (on top of investment position) in financials this morning. ( , and ) I will have more on financials on Monday - in a more lengthy analysis. I will be at a Board of Governors meeting at my golf club from 12-2...

My three favorite tech stocks for the near and intermediate term remain , and (my Trade of the Week). My two favorite industrial stocks are and . My favorite financial stock is . My favorite ETF is . My favorite takeover speculations are SQ, TWTR an...

I just established the following longs (in a new managed account): Square $64.96, Goldman Sachs $185.57, Wells Fargo $52.29, Citigroup $62.52, and Bank of America $27.19.

* Large U.S. banks are rapidly gaining share in fixed income trading and retail and corporate lending Deutsche Bank's shares have hit another new low overnight. As I have written in the past, I view as the next Black Swan in Europe: "Like Sears , De...

Of the trading long rentals I took in the market's schmeissing earlier in the week, only a small position in Cisco remains. I expect to continue to hold the add-ons in Twitter , Citigroup , Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo . (These a...

As mentioned on Wednesday, despite already sizable holdings, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway purchased nearly $14 billion of financial services equities in the most recent quarter: * Bank of America (198 million shares, $5.7 billion) * JPMorgan ...

* And puts his imprimatur on the U.S. money center bank stocks "One last thing." -- Lt. Columbo After the close, Berkshire Hathaway announced a new investment position in JPMorgan Chase . Normally I would view this as a non-event but I see this as r...

As the market broke down late last month I penned a column, "A Contrarian's Thoughts" (while I unemotionally took on a number of trading long rentals based on the expectation of a possible rally in the S&P Index towards 2800-2850):  "The pessimism i...

I am not making a long purchase today.  But if you don't share my ursine market view I would consider the following at current prices: , , all banks ( , , and ), retail ( and ), and .

* Trading unemotionally and opportunistically I aggressively bought into the very large sell program at about 3-3:30 p.m. All I can write is that it was a wild day with possibly one of the largest intraday moves I have ever seen.   These sort of spa...

* I am aggressively using the current weakness in bank stocks to expand my long investment positions * In a fairly valued market, banks represent uncommon value * Bank stocks may be among the best long hedge (I know of) as viewed and measured agains...

My largest buys today were in Bank of America , Citigroup , JPMorgan and Wells Fargo .

Let's continue to briefly review the banking industry's third quarter results - its BAC's turn. BankAmerica reported a beat to consensus - coming in at $0.66/share with upside to revenue growth to consumer banking, better credit and improved operati...