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Canadian banks have the best balance sheets among all world banks, but the top 5 Canadian banks can’t increase their dividends until they learn from Basel III what the new regulations are going to be concerning capital requirements for banks.
Not long after Basel III’s new capital and liquidity rules are announced, banks will likely be [...]
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When will we see the Canadian banks increase their dividends again? Which of the Big Five will raise their dividend first?
All Canadian income investors would love to know the answers to these questions. Of course, smaller Canadian banks have already begun to increase their dividends. Laurentian Bank of Canada (TSX: LB) hiked its dividend just [...]
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The biggest Australian banks are wholly-owned Australian companies and all pay dividends. Known as the “Big Four” – (compare that with Canada’s “Big Five” or as some say, “Big Six“) – these Australian banks by no means represent all of the Australian banking sector, but they are the ones with the largest presence.
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Here’s a graph showing the amount of “excess” (beyond required amounts) reserves held by U.S. banks. It covers quite a span of time, but it’s the best-looking one I found showing the relevant data. The graph also gives just a bit of sense of the extent of the unprecedented nature of money-pumping going on at [...]
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Upcoming first quarter Canadian bank earnings, on a whole, are expected to be better than expected (so does that mean they’re just “what was expected”?:)). This follows on my earlier note about Barclay’s bank having better than expected earnings, and also the midday rally today in financials across the board.
Some, however, think these first quarter [...]
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