The "Markets" are places like the New York Stock Exchange.
NYSE member firms
http://www.nyse.com/...
NYSE member firms "B"
http://apps.nyse.com/...
Bank of America
NYSE member firms "C"
http://apps.nyse.com/...
Citigroup
and so on.......
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan Chase
Morgan Stanley
Wells Fargo
NYSE members are the same people who got us into this mess.
Remember Tarp Tarp Recipients
http://bailout.uslaw.com/...
Citigroup Inc. (New York) — $25 billion
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (New York) - $25 billion
Wells Fargo & Co. (San Francisco) — $25 billion
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) — $15 billion
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (New York) — $10 billion
Merrill Lynch & Co. (New York) — $10 billion
Morgan Stanley (New York) — $10 billion
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh) — $7.7 billion
US Bancorp (Minneapolis) — $6.6 billion
Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.) — $3.55 billion
Regions Financial Corp. (Birmingham, Ala.) — $3.5 billion
SunTrust Banks Inc. (Atlanta) — $3.5 billion
Fifth Third Bancorp (Cincinnati) — $3.4 billion
BB&T Corp. (Winston-Salem, NC) — $3.1 billion
Bank of New York Mellon (New York) — $3 billion
Keycorp (Cleveland) — $2.5 billion
Comerica Inc. (Dallas) — $2.25 billion
State Street Corp. (Boston) — $2 billion
Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (Milwaukee) — $1.7 billion
Northern Trust Corp. (Chicago) — $1.5 billion
Huntington Bancshares Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) — $1.4 billion
Zions Bancorporation (Salt Lake City) — $1.4 billion
Synovus (Columbus, Ga.) — $973 million
Popular Inc. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) — $950 million
First Horizon National Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.) – $866 million
M&T Bank Corp (Buffalo, N.Y.) — $600 million
Associated Banc-Corp. (Green Bay, Wis.) — $530 million
Webster Financial Corp. (Waterbury, Conn.) — $400 million
City National Corp. (Beverly Hills, Calif.) — $395 million
TCF Financial Corp. (Wayzata, Minn.) — $361 million.
The South Financial Group (Greenville, N.C.) — $347 million
Valley National Bancorp (Wayne, N.J.) — $330 million
East West Bancorp (Pasadena, Calif.) — $316 million
Citizens Republic Bancorp (Flint, Mich.) — $300 million
Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. (Lititz, Pa.) — $300 million
UCBH Holdings Inc. (San Francisco) — $298 million
Cathay General Bancorp (Los Angeles) — $258 million
FirstMerit Corp. (Akron, Ohio) — $248 million
International Bancshares Corp. (Laredo, Tex.) — $216 million
Trustmark Corp. (Jackson, Miss.) — $215 million
Umpqua Holdings Corp. (Portland, Ore.) — $214 million
Washington Federal Savings (Seattle) — $200 million
MB Financial ( Chicago) — $193 million
First Midwest Bancorp Inc. (Itasca, Ill.) –$193 million
Pacific Capital Bancorp (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — $188 million.
First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (Buffalo, N.Y.) — $186 million
United Community Banks (Blairsville, Ga.) — $180 million
Provident Bankshares (Baltimore) — $151 million
Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. (Boston) — $150 million
Old National Bank (Evansville, Ind.) — $150 million
Western Alliance Bancorporation (Las Vegas) — $140 million.
CVB Financial Corp. (Ontario, Calif.) — $130 million
Banner Corp. (Walla Walla, Wash.) — $124 million
Signature Bank (New York) — $120 million
Iberiabank Corp. (Lafayette, La.) — $115 million
Taylor Capital Group Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.) — $105 million
Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. (Melrose Park, Ill.) — $86 million
Sandy Spring Bancorp (Olney, Md.) — $83 million.
First Financial Bancorp. (Cincinnati) — $80 million
Columbia Banking System Inc. (Tacoma, Wash.) — $76.9 million
Wesbanco Inc. (Wheeling, W.Va.) — $75 million
Southwest Bancorp (Stillwater, Okla.) — $70 million
Superior Bancorp (Birmingham, Ala.) — $69 million
Nara Bancorp (Los Angeles) — $67 million,
Wilshire Bancorp (Los Angeles) — $62 million
Great Southern Bancorp (Springfield, Mo.) — $60 million.
Ameris Bancorp. (Moultrie, Ga.) — $52 million
Home Bancshares Inc. (Conway, Ark.) — $50 million
Capital Bank Corp. (Raleigh, N.C.) — $42.9 million
Southern Community Financial Corp. (Winston-Salem, N.C.) — $42.75 million
Heritage Commerce Corp. (San Jose., Calif.) — $40 million
Simmons First National Corp. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) — $40 million
Cascade Financial Corp. (Everett, Wash.) — $39 million
Peoples Bancorp (Marietta, Ohio) — $39 million
Porter Bancorp Inc. (Louisville, Ky.) — $39 million
Eagle Bancorp Inc. (Bethesda, Md.) — $38.2 million
Encore Bancshares Inc. (Houston) — $34 million.
Bancorp Rhode Island Inc. (Providence, R.I.) — $30 million
Severn Bancorp (Annapolis, Md.) — $30 million
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp. (Gladstone, N.J.) — $28.7 million
Intermountain Community Bancorp (Sandpoint, Idaho) — $27 million
LNB Bancorp Inc. (Lorain, Ohio) — $25.2 million
HF Financial Corp. (Sioux Falls, S.D.) — $25 million
Heritage Financial Corp. (Olympia, Wash.) — $24 million.
Wainwright Bank & Trust Co. (Boston) — $22 million
Indiana Community Bancorp (Columbus, Ind.) — $21.5 million
First PacTrust Bancorp Inc. (Chula Vista, Calif.) — $19.3 million
HopFed Bancorp Inc. (Hopkinsville, Ky.) — $18.4 million.
Bank of Commerce Holdings Inc. (Redding, Calif.) — $17 million
1st Financial Services Corp. (Hendersonville, N.C.) — $16.3 million
Community West Bancshares (Goleta, Calif.) — $15.6 million
Broadway Financial Group ( Los Angeles) — $9 million
FFW Corp. (Wabash, Ind.) — $7.3 million
Capital Pacific Bancorp (Portland, Ore.) — $4 million
Saigon National Bank (Westminster, Calif.) — $1.2 million
As of 11/24/08. Sources: MarketWatch, New York Times.
and they need to "get it" that no more business as usual.
Based on the latest bonus numbers and the fact that exotic trading is still going on to this day with even more bizarre financial instruments no doubt brewing on the horizon, They don't get it yet. Hell even the CNBC crowd like Mark Haines says they're tone deaf.
Unfortunately Bernanke represents business as usual hence the threats of crashes if he goes.
he really needs to be sent packing.