BofA: Financial Winners & Losers
NEW YORK (
) -- Bank stocks were knocked down for the most part Tuesday as even more depressing news was reported out of the U.S housing markets.
The KBW Bank Index was down 1.6% at 43.82 shortly after midday, as government statistics revealed a large decline in
.
Large banks declined on the news.
Bank of America
(BAC) - Get Report
hit a 52-week-low earlier in the Tuesday's session, despite CEO Brian Moynihan's purchase of 30,000 shares of the big Charlotte, N.C.-based money center bank. Bank of America shares were most recently falling 1% at $12.74.
Morgan Stanley
(MS) - Get Report
were also falling 1.83% at $25.25.
Citigroup
(C) - Get Report
shares were also falling 1%, to $3.71, on the news that the big bank was experiencing higher than expected loan delinquencies coming out of its consumer finance arm,
, as it restructures and downsizes the unit.
Citigroup and Bank of America were the top two volume leaders on the New York Stock Exchange on generally light activity.
Regional bank stocks also followed suit into the red Tuesday, including shares of
Fifth Third Bancorp
(FITB) - Get Report
down 3.3% to $13.22,
Snyovus'
(SNV) - Get Report
shares were falling 3.2% to $3.15 and
Huntington Bancshares
(HBAN) - Get Report
, down 2.9% to $5.22.
Still there were some positive stock moves in the bank sector.
Doral Financial
(DRL)
shares were up 9.5% (the equivalent of 11 cents) to $1.27 on higher than average trading volume of 652,000 shares. Shares of
First Bancorp
(FBNC) - Get Report
of Troy, N.C. were rising 2.2% to $12.50.
--Written by Laurie Kulikowski in New York.
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