News Topic: Stocks

James Ayers' stake in the Tennessee company will drop below 50% after a planned stock offering. ... Read full article

A planned stock offering by the French banking giant would lower its stake in First Hawaiian to 49.9%. ... Read full article

Capital One Financial Corp. plans to repurchase shares following the sale of $17 billion in mortgages to a Credit Suisse subsidiary. ... Read full article

Hedge fund apparently likes the bank’s corporate services business; Michael Piwowar is credited with “jump-starting” the agency’s deregulatory push. ... Read full article

“Sometimes Washington picks the winners for you,” said Manny Friedman, CEO of the hedge fund EJF Capital. ... Read full article

Acting director wants agency run by a bipartisan body, not a lone director; Fed and OCC push for relaxing the supplementary leverage ratio at the biggest banks. ... Read full article

Short sellers tend to go against the tide, making investments based on a belief that a stock is going to tank. These 10 banks have drawn the greatest amount of short-interest activity recently. ... Read full article

From investor angst to regulatory scrutiny, here's a look at three obstacles that must be addressed before Ocwen Financial can acquire PHH Mortgage. ... Read full article

Ocwen Financial Corp.'s acquisition of PHH Corp. will help the nonbank servicer rebuild scale that's been diminished by years of regulatory restrictions and the decline in distressed mortgage volume brought about by improvements in the overall ... Read full article

As the economy strengthens, more banks are facing pressure to pay up for the best lenders and tech specialists. ... Read full article

The private equity firms plan to sell a total of 3 million shares in the Houston company in coming weeks. ... Read full article

The bank said it plans to use proceeds from the placement to expand its operations. ... Read full article

Farmer Mac has terminated President and CEO Timothy Buzby for violating company policies not related to its financial and business performance. ... Read full article

Bank of America set aside $100 million in its reserves for representation and warranty claims ahead of a pending settlement to resolve legacy mortgage issues. ... Read full article

The Dutch government sold a third stake in ABN Amro Group NV, taking advantage of a rally in the shares of the nationalized lender. ... Read full article

Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group has agreed to buy a majority stake in Virginia Community Bank in a rare instance of a nondepository mortgage company buying a bank, rather than the reverse. ... Read full article

In an echo of the rescue deals of 2007 and 2008, New Residential's CEO framed the transaction as something undertaken to benefit the entire industry. ... Read full article

Growth outside of its residential mortgage business contributed to Flagstar Bank beating first-quarter earnings estimates, company executives said. ... Read full article