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  • Are These Banks The Best Natural Gas Plays?

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: CFR, HTH, TCBI

    You hear a lot about the shale gas boom in North Dakota and Pennsylvania, but interest has increased in Texas plays due to a positive mention of the natural gas industry in the President's State of the Union address. The Chesapeake Energy website wrote of one Texas shale area, "The Haynesville Shale... has the potential to become the largest natural gas play in the U.S. by 2012, with more »

  • Banking Big on Big Gas-Texas Style

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - March 13, 2013 | Tickers: CFR, HTH, TCBI

    Texas has three natural gas producing shale areas virtually covering the Lone Star State: the Barnett, the Eagle Ford, and the Haynesville/Bossier of east Texas. Unsurprisingly, Texas has paid out more gas drilling royalties than any other state--$6.1 billion out of $21 billion nationally, according to the latest figures from 2010.  Companies such as Chesapeake Energy, XTO and parent Exxon, Conoco, Cabot Oil and Gas, and many more »

  • Banks: 3 Small Cap Growth Stocks Worth Buying

    By Anindya Batabyal - February 12, 2013 | Tickers: FBNK, RCKB, TCBI

    The financial sector in the U.S. is going through rapid structural changes with uninterrupted expense control, sound balance sheets, an up-tick in mortgage activity, and fewer credit loss provisions. Moreover, a favorable equity and asset market backdrop, progressive housing sector, and an accommodative monetary policy are expected to make the road to growth smoother. 

    The implementation of Basel III requirements this year will boost minimum capital standards. Adjusting liquidity more »

  • Three Financial Sector ETFs; Each with its Own Perspective

    By Jeff Stouffer - September 4, 2012 | Tickers: IAK, MET, NES.DL, PRU, KRE, STI, SNV, TCBI, WY

    The financial services sector, once called the black sheep of the family for causing the financial markets meltdown in 2008, still remains to be an important part of the economy and an area that still is ripe with profit opportunities for the individual investor. Regardless of how greed got so far out of hand, the eventual correction will result in a far better set of principles that will enable this more »

  • How Are the Banks?

    By Bobbie Johnson - April 11, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, GS, SBNY, TCBI, WFC

    Fidelity Bank closed its doors for the final time on March 30, 2012. Fidelity was a small bank compared to many with only eight branches to its name and a hometown location in Dearborn, Michigan. The bank failed; it held a portfolio of $818 million in assets and garnered the number one spot on the FDIC’s list of failed banks for 2012 for having the most assets.

    The remains more »