East West Bancorp Incorporated

April 22 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Apple, IBM and GE, on Monday. HIGHLIGHTS * Apple : BMO, Sterne Agee cut target price on the stock * IBM : Goldman Sachs,...

East West Bancorp Inc. reported an 8.8% increase in fourth-quarter profit, closing out a year of general improvement at the largest Chinese American bank, and rival Cathay General Bancorp said its earnings rose 2.5%. The results at East West,...

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Pasadena's East West Bancorp, the Chinese-American powerhouse, has repaid its more than $300-million slice of bailout funds from the U.S. Treasury. Several Southern California banks are still struggling even to make dividend payments on their...

Bank regulators are expected later today to take over Los Angeles-based California National Bank in what would mark the fourth-largest bank failure in the country this year, according to people familiar with the situation. The bank, a unit of FBOP......

Wall Street thinks Pasadena-based East West Bancorp made a sweet deal to buy rival United Commercial Bank in a takeover brokered Friday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Shares of East West -- which now becomes by far the largest......

Reversing a year-earlier loss, Pasadena's East West Bancorp reported a first-quarter profit of $24.9 million, saying it benefited from its acquisition of a failed rival and lower provisions for loan losses. The profit, the equivalent of 13 cents per...

The latest takeover of a failed Chinese-American bank by Pasadena's East West Bancorp triples its presence in the Seattle area -- and has investors applauding. In a statement late Friday, East West said that it had acquired Washington First International....