Bank of America Corp. Ratings Unaffected By First-Quarter Results Apr 11
Standard & Poors, April 2011
Abstract
NEW YORK (Standard & Poor's) April 15, 2011--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that its ratings on Bank of America Corp. (BAC; A/Negative/A-1) are not affected by the company's relatively fair first-quarter results, which were slightly worse than we expected. BAC generated $3.6 billion of Standard & Poor's-adjusted pretax earnings, up from a loss of $0.4 billion in fourth-quarter 2010. Lower credit costs and stronger capital-markets performance led to the difference. Quarterly earnings, however, declined from $4.3 billion in the same quarter of the prior year, largely because of lower trading results. The net interest margin (NIM) declined 26 basis points (bps) year-over-year to 2.67% due to the lower asset yields and portfolio run-off. Sequentially, BAC's NIM was flat....
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