Bank outcomes reveal stark divide as business recovers from turmoil [Yahoo!]
Citigroup’s revenue tumbled 36% within the second quarter, largely due to weaknesses in its Wall Street unit…. State Street disclosed that its internet curiosity earnings, which measures the distinction between what it earns from loans and pays out in deposits, fell 10% when in comparison with the primary quarter…. [JPMorgan] stated First Republic added $2.4 billion to internet earnings. That helped push general earnings to $14.5 billion, up 67% from the identical interval a yr in the past. Wells Fargo’s earnings of $4.9 billion had been up 57%.
Crypto scores a key authorized victory in long-running regulatory feud [CNN]
The opinion from Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York, who acknowledged that XRP was “not necessarily a security on its face,” partially validated the crypto business’s rivalry that digital belongings shouldn’t be regulated as securities…. Torres’ ruling did fall partly within the SEC’s favor, as she discovered that a few of Ripple’s gross sales — to hedge funds and different refined patrons — did violate securities legal guidelines.
Hedge Funds Caxton, Element Slump in Brutal First Half for Macro Traders [Bloomberg]
Andrew Law’s Caxton Macro hedge fund deepened its decline in June to finish the primary half down 20%, whereas Jeff Talpins’s Element Capital Management suffered a 7.7% loss final month to increase its stoop this yr to fifteen.4%…. The sector as an entire has seen reversal of the stellar features they made earlier from profitable brief bets on bonds as rates of interest started to rise in response to hovering inflation.
St. Louis Fed President Bullard says he’s stepping down in August [CNBC]
The financial institution stated he’s leaving to take the place of dean at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, efficient Aug. 15. It additionally added that Bullard has “recused himself from his monetary policy role on the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee and other related duties and has ceased all public speaking.”
DeSantis weighs media technique shift as donors fret about early marketing campaign struggles: Sources [ABC News]
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who early on had signaled plans to throw his help behind DeSantis’ White House run, has particularly grown more and more pissed off with how the Florida governor’s early marketing campaign has performed out after hoping the governor can be the most effective guess to tackle Trump within the main, sources acquainted with Griffin’s pondering informed ABC News.
Griffin has privately informed individuals near him, together with different high donors, that he is rising impatient with ready for DeSantis to indicate progress as a candidate, stated a supply acquainted with Griffin’s pondering. A supply described Griffin as having “hit the pause button” on his help for the governor.
Exxon to purchase Denbury in $4.9 billion deal [CNBC]
Plano, Texas-based Denbury focuses on utilizing carbon dioxide to extract oil from previous wells and thus is seen as a horny asset for oil majors and different large-cap vitality corporations which can be beginning to amplify bets on the environmental, social and company governance technique.
Scaramucci on What’s Next After ‘Probably the Worst Year in My Investment Career’ [TheStreet]
“I mean, we got, we got really hammered in 2022. 2022, if the queen were still alive, she would have called it an annus horribilis…. Our Bitcoin position got hammered because of the rate hikes plus the fraud and the different over leveraged situations that were going on in the bubble activity of ‘21…. We got hammered in the press. We got hammered because of the Sam Bankman-Fried situation. So yeah, overall the inflation environment has been terrible. The COVID/inflation environment has been terrible for us.
Wall Street Pranksters Admit to $2 Bear Stearns Gag 15 Years Later [Bloomberg]
“We were joking around, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny to tape a $2 bill to the headquarters?’” [Bartek] Ringwelski, now the founding father of a enterprise fund, stated by telephone. “Our goal at the time was to get this into Dealbreaker….”
“There were surprisingly not many people around the building,” [Andrew] McDaniel stated. “So we just taped it to the door and took a few pictures ourselves. And then we emailed it to Dealbreaker.”
