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For the last two years, AmTrust Bank has been like a zombie. The size of the Cleveland bank's deposits and assets shrank nearly in half, and the bank was under the gun from regulators to improve.

The shares of PNC surrendered nearly 7% yesterday, with some analysts attributing the drop to escalating concerns about the firm's TARP-repayment timeline.

Markets were pleased with Bank of Americaa s decision to repay its debt to the federal government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program and now analysts are wondering which bank will be the next institution to repay its public debt.

Bank of America's surprise decision to pay off a $45 billion TARP investment it got from the government during the financial crisis may set the framework for the rest of the nation's banks which still need to pay back the taxpayers, analysts said Thursday.

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Prospects are high that the 185-room Fairmont Pittsburgh Hotel, Downtown, scheduled to open on March 29, will succeed, although many experts say the industry nationally won't turn around until 2011.

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The largest bank merger in the Louisville market is nearing completion, though the details - including a change in signage - are not final.

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Hedge funds are shoveling money into stocks as individuals exit at the fastest rate in a year, a sign to professional investors that the Standard & Poora s 500 Index is poised to extend its gains.

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Those institutions which were able to "raise common equity and would continue to exceed capital buffers set in the stress tests," would have the option to settle their TARP borrowings soon.

A group of West Chester capitalists has set up a Web site that invites dissident investors to recruit angry shareholders for corporate proxy fights.

U.S. banks are probably less exposed than European rivals to a potential debt default by Dubai World, but a lack of transparency and the interconnectedness of the modern financial system make it difficult to know which institutions are ultimately exposed, analysts said this week.

Financial stocks traded slightly lower Tuesday, as a lack of corporate news and the approaching Thanksgiving holiday capped moves in the sector.

Almost a year after acquiring National City Bank, PNC Financial Services Group plans complete combining the banks' Louisville operations in February - a process that will leave fewer branches, the same number of employees and two downtown towers with "PNC" signs at the top.

The "shaky" economic recovery may have an effect on this year's holiday sales, economists say.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat open on Tuesday after data showed home prices rose for the fifth straight month in September, but the growth was less than expected.

Capmark Financial Group Inc CPFNG.UL said on Tuesday it would sell its mortgage servicing business to a Berkshire Hathaway-Leucadia joint venture which raised its bid on Monday to about $468 million.

The economy is growing modestly, with consumers too wary about spending to invigorate the recovery.