Friday's Financial Winners & Losers

Financial stocks took another downturn Friday to cap off a mostly bearish week for the sector, which saw a harrowing influx of poor financials.

Among the culprits today was Wachovia (WB Quote), which fell 2% after joining the parade of financial services firms whose earnings were rotted out by credit market disruptions. Its third-quarter profit slid 24.4% year over year to 90 cents a share, or $1.71 billion (excluding one-time items) amid a credit-loss provision of $408 million that more than doubled from last quarter.

Revenue rose 4.3% from last year to $7.35 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial were looking for income of $1.03 a share on revenue of $8.02 billion. Shares of the Charlotte, N.C., bank were recently down 98 cents to $47.16. ...