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Tuesday, November 24, 
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Bank Watch: Financial stocks jump-start

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Stocks were up Wednesday as lawmakers debated the proposed $825 billion economic stimulus plan and "bad bank" plan. The Dow gained 124.97 points to 8,299.70, the S&P 500 jumped 20.38 points to 866.09, and the Nasdaq was up 43.64 points at 1,548.54.

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Wells Fargo & Co. stock was up even though the bank reported a quarterly loss of $2.55 billion. State Street Corp. stock was up. The bank announced that assets under administration serviced by its private equity fund team grew by 60% in 2008. Citigroup Inc. has named Mike Corbat interim chief executive of Citi Holdings, the "bad" portion of the company. Bank of America Corp. is up even though its management and board are under pressure from shareholders after the losses from Merrill Lynch & Co.'s integration and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain's firing. - Maria Woehr

Troubled Wall Street
Prices at 12:30pm EST
Name Price at
open
Price
at 12:30pm
Change Mkt cap
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 27.19 27.63 2.57 103137.26
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 84.28 85.91 7.65 33972.41
Morgan Stanley 21.07 21.45 1.93 22464.84
Citigroup Inc. 4.29 4.17 0.62 22726.92
Fannie Mae 0.6595 0.66 0.04 710.30
Freddie Mac 0.651 0.65 0.04 420.65
Bank of America Corp. 7.64 7.53 1.03 48135.89
Wells Fargo & Co. 19.01 20.32 4.13 67568.96
American International Group Inc. 1.4 1.37 0.02 3685.22
Sovereign Bancorp Inc. 2.57 2.71 0.35 1799.28
Fifth Third Bancorp 3.05 3.39 0.78 1957.34
Capital One Financial Corp. 19.27 19.99 2.09 7780.11
SunTrust Banks Inc. 15.1 14.72 1.67 5218.46
U.S. Bancorp 15.03 14.69 0.99 25780.95
Regions Financial Corp. 4.5 4.56 0.48 3152.63
KeyCorp 8.56 8.69 0.82 4301.57
PNC Financial Services 35.87 36.18 4.03 12595.76
BB&T Corp. 22.21 22.08 1.53 12348.20
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 26.2 26.87 2.18 30859.32
State Street Corp. 22.79 25.37 5.75 10948.62
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