The largest U.S. banks collectively showed that they can withstand a severe economic downturn and continued to improve their capital positions, according to the results of Dodd-Frank Act-mandated stress tests the Federal Reserve released yesterday. 

Economic growth will hit 2.8 percent for 2018, the fastest rate of growth in the current expansion, the ABA Economic Advisory Committee said today.

Commercial banks reported total trading revenue of $8.2 billion in the first quarter of 2018, up 62.8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 and 15 percent from the year before, according to the OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities today.

The latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, sponsored by Velocity Solutions, takes listeners to the “busiest place in the entire country” when it comes to oil, as Jay Jenkins describes his hometown of Carlsbad, N.M. The boomtown — located in the heart of the oil-rich Delaware Basin, which is part of the broader Permian oil-producing area — has ...

As economic conditions continue to improve -- with a robust labor market, inflation moving closer to the 2 percent target and growth exceeding most long-term estimates -- the Federal Reserve expects to continue pursuing its course of gradual increases to the federal funds rate, Chairman Jerome Powell said in a speech today. 

Existing-home sales decreased 0.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million in May, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). This followed a 2.5 percent decline in April. Sales are 3.0 percent below the May 2017 level. “Closings were down in a majority of the country last month and declined on an annual basis in each ...

Housing starts increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.350 million in May, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The figure was 5.0 percent above the April rate of 1.286 million and 20.3 percent higher than the May 2017 rate. Single-family home starts rose 18.3 percent from last month. Multifamily surged 11.3 percent since April and are up 27.4 percent ...

Midsize and regional bank leaders gather in Dallas for the International Financial Conference.

The American Bankers Association and all 52 state bankers associations on Friday wrote to the heads of the financial regulatory agencies urging regulators to finalize immediately the regulatory deduction portion of their recent proposal aimed at simplifying the complex Basel III capital calculations.

Industrial production fell 0.1 percent in May after an upwardly revised 0.9 percent increase in April, according to the Federal Reserve. Capacity utilization nudged down to 77.9 percent in May, but remains the second highest level in three years. Manufacturing output declined 0.7 percent after remaining unchanged last month. Production of durable goods decreased 1.0 percent, while nondurable goods production ...