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The New York Community Bank (NYCB) headquarters in Hicksville, New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024.Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew York Community Bank said Thursday it lost 7% of its deposits in the turbulent month before announcing a $1 billion-plus capital injection from investors led by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's Liberty Strategic Capital. The bank had $77.2 billion in deposits as of March 5, NYCB said in an investor presentation tied to the capital raise. That was down from $83 billion it…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fist bumps Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on "Oversight of the Treasury Department's and Federal Reserve's Pandemic Response" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, U.S., December 2, 2020.Greg Nash | ReutersThe $1 billion-plus injection that New York Community Bank announced Wednesday is the latest example of private equity players coming to the need of a wounded American lender.Led by $450 million from ex-Treasury…

Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-Annual Report to Congress," in the Dirksen Building on Nov. 30, 2023.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a new rule on Tuesday that it said would cap the typical late fee that banks charge customers at $8 per incident.By cutting late fees to $8 from an average of around $32, more than 45…

American Airlines flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, takes of from Miami International Airport on its way to New York on December 29, 2020 in Miami, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesAmerican Airlines said Monday it is ordering 260 new narrow-body jets, including dozens of Boeing's long-delayed 737 Max 10.The order includes 85 of Boeing's 737 Max 10 planes and 85 of the Airbus A321neo, aircraft it says will help it upgauge on domestic and short-haul international routes. The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline is also ordering 90…

A sign is pictured above a branch of New York Community Bank in Yonkers, New York, on Jan. 31, 2024.Mike Segar | ReutersRegional lender New York Community Bank may have to pay more to retain deposits after one of the company's key ratings was slashed for the second time in a month.Late Friday, Moody's Investors Service cut the deposit rating of NYCB's main banking subsidiary by four notches, to Ba3 from Baa2, putting it three levels below investment grade. That followed a two-notch cut from Moody's in early February.The…

Ford on Monday reported a continued surge in monthly hybrid sales, the latest indication that its strategic shift from money-losing and demand-softening electric vehicles is paying off. Jim Cramer sees a window for investors to act. Shares of Ford were trading as much as 4% higher on Monday after a strong February sales report. The automaker delivered a 31.5% increase in hybrids year over year. EV sales were up 80%. But that compared to the year-ago period when production was uneven. Sales for its traditional internal…

A sign is pictured above a branch of the New York Community Bank in Yonkers, New York, U.S., January 31, 2024.Mike Segar | ReutersRegional lender New York Community Bank finds itself in an apparently worsening predicament just as the anniversary of last year's banking turmoil nears.Shares of the troubled lender plunged 25% Friday to below $4 apiece after NYCB restated recent quarterly earnings lower by $2.4 billion, formally replaced its CEO and delayed the release of a key annual report.The most worrying development,…

Supply chain disruptions are causing a production backlog at the world's largest truckmaker, Daimler Trucks.Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Daimler Truck hit a fresh all-time high Friday, spiking more than 13.5% in early deals, after posting record full-year profit and announcing a 2 billion euro ($2.16 billion) share buyback program.The German truck maker posted better-than-expected pre-tax earnings of $5.5 billion euros for 2023, up 39% on the previous year's 4.4 billion. Analysts had expected EBIT (earnings before…

Apple offered investors more reasons to like its stock after the company reportedly canceled its decadelong electric, self-driving car project and CEO Tim Cook talked up the iPhone maker's artificial intelligence vision. The tech giant announced the end to its autonomous EV pursuits internally Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported , citing people with knowledge of the matter. Many employees on the nearly 2,000-person team will be tasked to work on Apple's AI unit instead, Bloomberg said. At Apple's virtual shareholder meeting…

A banner for the Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava is displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the company goes public on June 15, 2023 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesCava's stock rose 7% Tuesday morning after the Mediterranean restaurant chain released its earnings report a day early.Investors were expecting Cava to report its earnings after the bell on Tuesday afternoon, but the company issued its press release Monday evening instead after early versions of the results appeared in news…