Market Currents

• Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• 12:18 PM The dismantling of AIG (AIG +4.4%) continues as it sells its premium-finance business - which makes loans to wealthy life insurance buyers - to Wintrust Financial Corp. (WTFC +6.4%) for $679M. Comment!

• Wednesday, July 23, 2008

• 23:20 PM Wintrust Financial's (WTFC) CEO during today's earnings call, on how investors view banks: “If I announced we found oil under all our branches, people would tell me I have a pollution problem.” Comment!