David Jackson

Subprime: Not All Bad News About Smaller Banks [Housing Tracker]

Please note that this article was erroneously tagged with the ticker AFSI, belonging to AmTrust Financial Services Inc. AFSI is unaffiliated with AmTrust Bank, the company mentioned in this article.

U.S. Credit Card Industry Moving into Uncharted Territory

Due to the comments above, I added tags to this article for JP Morgan Chase, and also Discover and Amex.

Is it correct that Discover and Amex do carry credit risk?

Why Bank of America's New Free Trading Will Change the Industry While Benefiting ETFs

Excellent article, Matt. You've focused mainly on the competition between ETFs and index mutual funds, but what about the implications for actively managed mutual funds? This further widens the total return gap between index ETFs and actively managed funds. In other words, this has got to be incrementally negative for the fund management industry generally... with the excepion of Barclays, which dominates the ETF business.

Wonder what percentage of Barclay's business is ETFs, and how profitable the ETF business is for them... Barclay's trades as an ADR in the US (BCS).