Banks, insurers head higher – MarketWatch
A quartet of top U.S. bank stocks rose on Wednesday after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. reported earnings that surpassed Wall Street estimates, and the insurance sector also weighed in with gains to lift financial stocks more than 2%.
I suggest that the management at JPM horde all that cash, as the next big mortgage resets occur in 2012 (5 years after the peak of 2007, when everybody and their mother, dog, parakeet, and gerbil bought houses with no money down, poor credit, and insufficient income).
Now that many of those same people are now either unemployed or still making less money than their mortgage payment, the pressure is going to be HUGE on the housing market, banking sector, and overall economy. Let's hope the news that the economy and employment pictures are improving, else we fall into a really nasty tailspin. Let's also hope I'm wrong about the resets (here's the good personal news: my mortgage from 2004 reset at a lower interest rate).
Yahoo keeps calendars of those types of documents. Here is a link to the earnings calendar, but tabbed across the top, you will see other types of documents. Or, select a stock and find ALL documents under that stock.