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Commerzbank Q3 2025: Profit Misses Forecasts as Tax Bill Bites, But NII Outlook Rises and 9‑Month Operating Result Hits Record Amid UniCredit Pressure

Commerzbank Q3 2025: Profit Misses Forecasts as Tax Bill Bites, But NII Outlook Rises and 9‑Month Operating Result Hits Record Amid UniCredit Pressure

FRANKFURT — November 7, 2025. Commerzbank’s third‑quarter headline profit came in weaker than expected, but the bank raised its 2025 net interest income (NII) guidance and posted a record operating result for the first nine months—underlining CEO Bettina Orlopp’s push to keep the lender independent as Italy’s UniCredit builds its stake. Reuters+1 What happened in Q3 2025 Commerzbank reported €591 million in net profit for the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 7.9% year on year and below a €659 million consensus, largely because the effective tax rate jumped to 36% from 22% a year earlier and operating costs rose around
7 November 2025
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Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Liquidity Watch (Nov. 6, 2025): Record SRF Usage Fades After $50B Spike—What the “$125B in 5 Days” Headlines Really Mean for Banks and Markets

Published: November 6, 2025 Key takeaways What changed today (Nov. 6) As of Wednesday, Nov. 5 (the latest consolidated data), SRF usage collapsed to ~$82 million—split roughly $43 million Treasuries and $39 million MBS—after the early‑week spike. That sharp slowdown corroborates the view that month‑end frictions were the primary driver, not a sustained funding seizure. FRED+1 Separately, the Fed’s Oct. 29 policy shift—to stop QT on Dec. 1 and to reinvest MBS into T‑bills—continues to shape expectations that money‑market stress should gradually ease into year‑end as reserves stabilize. Reuters How we got here: A quick timeline What the SRF is—and
6 November 2025
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Banks Warn of Bubble as AI Darling Palantir Plunges from Record High

Banks Warn of Bubble as AI Darling Palantir Plunges from Record High

Market Rally Hits a Wall of Warnings After a red-hot October rally in U.S. stocks, November kicked off with a stark reality check. Last week, Wall Street’s major indexes were at all-time highs, buoyed by Big Tech earnings and surging investments in artificial intelligence reuters.com. But now top bankers are urging caution. Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick and Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon both warned the market may be due for a pullback, citing frothy tech valuations reuters.com. “Technology multiples are full,” Solomon observed, suggesting parts of the market have grown too exuberant. This sentiment echoes JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, who
4 November 2025
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Westpac’s $7 Billion Windfall Ignites ASX Rally Despite Mining Slump – Nov 3, 2025

Westpac’s $7 Billion Windfall Ignites ASX Rally Despite Mining Slump – Nov 3, 2025

Market Overview: Indices End with Modest Gain Australian shares managed a slight rise on Monday, November 3, 2025, as the market shrugged off early weakness. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.2% at 8,894.8 points indopremier.com, rebounding from morning lows. This marks a small advance following a tepid 0.4% gain for the entire month of October indopremier.com, indicating that the index remains near record-high territory. The broader All Ordinaries index of 500 companies was almost unchanged, dipping just 0.05% to 9,173.5 commbank.com.au. Overall, the market “finished roughly where it began” the day commbank.com.au, as strength in banking and tech shares
3 November 2025
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Merger Showdown: Union Slams Crédit Agricole–Banco BPM Deal Over Job Cuts and “Deserted” Towns

Merger Showdown: Union Slams Crédit Agricole–Banco BPM Deal Over Job Cuts and “Deserted” Towns

Union Sounds Alarm on Bank Merger Italian bank workers’ union First CISL has delivered a stark warning about the rumored merger between Banco BPM and Crédit Agricole Italia. On October 31, the union publicly rejected the potential deal, saying it would come at a high social cost. “An eventual Crédit Agricole–Banco BPM operation will bring a new wave of branch closures [and] heavy cuts to jobs,” cautioned First CISL Secretary General Riccardo Colombani firstcisl.it. He stressed that hundreds of bank branches could shut if the two lenders combine, hurting not only bank employees but also local communities and small businesses
3 November 2025
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HSBC Shares Jump as Bank Lifts Outlook Despite $1.1 B Madoff Hit

HSBC Shares Jump as Bank Lifts Outlook Despite $1.1 B Madoff Hit

Shares Rally After Earnings Beat Expectations HSBC’s share price is on the rise after the bank’s latest earnings came in with surprisingly robust signals for future growth. In London trading Tuesday, HSBC shares jumped roughly 3% by mid-morning following the results, outperforming a flat FTSE 100 index lse.co.uk. The rally reflects investor relief that HSBC managed to absorb a large legal charge yet still boost its outlook. In Hong Kong, where the earnings were released at midday local time, HSBC’s stock similarly rose over 2% in an otherwise subdued market reuters.com. The gains indicate that markets have looked past the
28 October 2025
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Huntington Bancshares’ Bold Moves: Strong Earnings and a $7.4B Bank Takeover Shake Up HBAN Stock

Huntington Bancshares’ Bold Moves: Strong Earnings and a $7.4B Bank Takeover Shake Up HBAN Stock

October 27, 2025: Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ: HBAN) is making headlines with a potent mix of robust earnings and aggressive expansion. The Columbus, Ohio-based regional bank is riding high on better-than-expected Q3 results and announcing a $7.4 billion takeover of Cadence Bank, a bold merger that extends Huntington’s footprint into the lucrative Texas and Southeast markets. Investors are parsing what these developments mean for HBAN’s stock price and future. Stock Price and Recent Trading Action As of October 27, Huntington’s stock is hovering near $15.5 per share in afternoon trading. That price is down a few percent from Friday’s close,
27 October 2025
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Huntington’s $7.4B Texas-Tupelo Power Move: Cadence Bank Takeover Shakes Up Banking

Huntington’s $7.4B Texas-Tupelo Power Move: Cadence Bank Takeover Shakes Up Banking

Deal Details and Rationale On Oct. 27, Huntington Bancshares announced it will absorb Cadence Bank in a stock-for-stock merger finimize.com sec.gov. Cadence is a $53 billion-asset regional bank based in Houston/Tupelo, with 390 branches in eight states sec.gov bankingdive.com. Under the deal Huntington will issue 2.475 of its shares per Cadence share. Based on HBAN’s Oct. 24 close of $16.07, the exchange price equals $39.77 per Cadence share (a ~9% premium) finimize.com bankingdive.com. This values Cadence at $7.4 billion in total finimize.com bankingdive.com. The combined bank will have about $276 billion in assets, $220 billion in deposits, and $184 billion in loans and leases reuters.com bankingdive.com.
27 October 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

OpenAI Hires 100 Ex-Bankers at $150/Hour to Train an AI to Replace Wall Street Analysts

OpenAI’s “Project Mercury” – Bankers Training Their Replacement Wall Street’s junior bankers may have just met their future replacement – and it’s a chatbot armed with Excel macros and finance textbooks. In a move that grabbed industry attention this week, OpenAI (the firm behind ChatGPT) has been secretly recruiting over a hundred former Wall Street analysts to train an AI system how to do their old jobs timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Dubbed Project Mercury, the initiative invites ex-bankers from elite firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley to act as AI tutors, teaching OpenAI’s models to build the kind of intricate financial
26 October 2025
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Lloyds Share Price: Can the FTSE‑100 Bank’s Value Keep Surging or Is a Crash Coming?

Lloyds Shares Hit Decade-High Despite £2 Billion Scandal – What’s Next for LLOY Stock?

Lloyds Share Price Rally Nears 10-Year High Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY) stock has been on a tear in 2025, flirting with decade highs. Shares currently trade around 84–85 pence, just shy of their highest level since 2015 ts2.tech. In mid-October, Lloyds hit ~86.6p, a level not seen since before the Brexit referendum, underscoring the bank’s remarkable recovery. The stock has climbed roughly 50% year-on-year, vastly outperforming the broader FTSE 100 index ts2.tech. Elevated interest rates have turbocharged bank earnings, and Lloyds – as the UK’s largest retail lender – has been a prime beneficiary of fatter loan margins. Investors
23 October 2025
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BBVA Stock Jumps on Failed Takeover Bid – What’s Next for the Banking Giant?

BBVA Stock Soars on Failed Sabadell Takeover Bid – Analysts See Upside Ahead

BBVA Shares Jump as Takeover Bid Collapses Madrid, October 17, 2025 – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) stock jumped sharply on Friday after the Spanish banking giant’s hostile bid for Banco Sabadell fell through. BBVA shares rose about 5–7% in Madrid trading, closing near €16.8 (up roughly 6.9% on the day) investing.com reuters.com, while Sabadell’s stock plunged over 6% reuters.com. The rally came as BBVA announced it would immediately restart share buybacks – buying back €1 billion of its own shares starting October 31 – now that the Sabadell deal is off the table ts2.tech. BBVA also declared its largest-ever interim
17 October 2025
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Fifth Third’s Stock Jumps on Earnings Beat and Mega-Merger – Is FITB a Buy Now?

Fifth Third’s Stock Jumps on Earnings Beat and Mega-Merger – Is FITB a Buy Now?

Fifth Third Stock Rallies After Turbulent Week Fifth Third Bank logo is seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2024 (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic). Fifth Third’s stock is bouncing back to end a volatile week. By midday Friday (Oct. 17), FITB shares were trading around $41–$42, up roughly 2–3% after the bank’s strong earnings report beat expectations reuters.com. The mini-rally follows a sharp selloff in regional bank stocks just one day earlier: on Thursday, Fifth Third fell about 4% as part of a broader rout fueled by credit worries ts2.tech. News of surprise loan losses at two peer banks – Zions and
17 October 2025
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