'Macro View: Early Q3 Preliminary Bank Ratings Improve', November 5, 2009
'SCAP & Q3 Earnings for the 19 Stress Test Banks', October 30, 2009
'SunTrust Bank (NYSE:STI)', October 26, 2009
'Macro View: TDRs and Bubbles Proliferate', October 23, 2009
'WFC Earnings Update', October 21, 2009
'BB&T Update', October 20, 2009
'The Macro View: REMICs & Accounts Payable; Citigroup & CRE', October 19, 2009
'Earnings Setup: JPM “Surprise”; Citigroup', October 14, 2009
'Large Bank Earnings Setup: JPM & BAC', October 12, 2009
'The Macro View: Turkish Haircuts; Starwood Deal Gets Done; Update on Wells Fargo & Co.', October 8, 2009
'The Macro View; Bank of America: Ken Lewis is Not the Issue', October 2, 2009
'The Future Housing Industry; Initiating Coverage of M&T Bancorp (NYSE:MTB)', September 30, 2009
'As the Safety Net is Withdrawn, Will Systemic Risk Return to Financials?', September 24, 2009
'Dodd Proposal on Regulatory Reform; Bank of Hawaii (NYSE:BOH)', September 21, 2009
'FITB Drops 8-K on SNC; TCF Financial (NYSE:TCB)', September 18, 2009
'FDIC: How big is the hole in the Deposit Insurance Fund?', September 15, 2009
'Dodd Remains at SBC; FDIC to End TLGP, But What Now?', September 10, 2009
'Q2 2009 Ratings Roundup Continued: PNC and STI', September 3, 2009
'Q2 2009 Ratings Roundup and Comments on Coverage Universe', August 31, 2009
'Hudson City Savings Bank (NASDAQ: HCBK)', August 25, 2009
'Macro Outlook: Exposure at Default for JPM, WFC, C & BAC', August 24, 2009
'Preview: Q2 2009 Preliminary Bank Stress ratings; Update: BB&T', August 19, 2009
'Analysis: Rating Agency Reform (MCO, MHP)', August 17, 2009
'Outlook for 2H 2009 and 2010: Stress Tests & Forbearance', August 11, 2009
'Analysis: Regulatory Reform', July 31, 2009
'Update on US Bancorp (NYSE:USB) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR)', July 29, 2009
'Webster Financial (NYSE:WBS) & Warburg Pincus', July 28, 2009
'Q2 Earnings Update; Profile of Capital One Financial ', July 24, 2009
'Initiating Coverage of Marshall & Ilsley Corp', July 21, 2009
'About IRA Advisory Ratings Methodology; More on Goldman Sachs', July 14, 2009
'Update on Stress Ratings & Coverage; Outlook for 2nd Half of 2009 for Financials', July 13, 2009
'PPIP: Extend & Pretend; Profile: Bank of Hawaii', July 9, 2009
'Update on Fifth Third, Key Corp, Regions Financial', June 18, 2009
'Outlook for 2009: Paranoid & Nimble Wins the Day; Update on Wells Fargo', June 29, 2009
'Update on Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase Below we', July 3, 2009
'Cullen Frost; Citi Exit Strategy', June 26, 2009
'Senate Banking Committee Hearings on OTC', June 24, 2009
'New Ratings for Fifth Third, KeyCorp and Regions Financial', June 18, 2009
'Resolutions; Citigroup; Securitization', June 16, 2009
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