Yahoo! Finance: WABC NewsLatest Financial News for WESTAMERICA BNCPWESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events (EDGAR Online)- August 29, 2008http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/e/080829/wabc8-k.html Westamerica plans to buy back up to 2M shares (AP)- August 28, 2008 Westamerica Bancorp said Thursday its board has authorized a plan to buy back as many as 2 million shares of its common stock.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080828/westamerica_... Westamerica Bancorporation Announces Stock Repurchase Plan (Business Wire)- August 28, 2008 SAN RAFAEL, Calif.----Westamerica Bancorporation , parent company of Westamerica Bank, announced that its Board of Directors approved a plan to repurchase, as conditions warrant, up to two million shares of the Companys common stock on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions from time to time prior to September 1, 2009.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080828/200808280058... Fannie Mae shakes up management team (AP)- August 28, 2008 Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae shook up its executive ranks Wednesday, after shares in it and sibling company Freddie Mac rose for a third straight day as investors appeared less certain a government bailout of the two troubled companies is imminent.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080828/fannie_fredd... Fannie Mae shakes up management team (AP)- August 27, 2008 Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae shook up its executive ranks Wednesday, after shares in it and sibling company Freddie Mac rose for a third straight day as investors appeared less certain a government bailout of the two troubled companies is imminent.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080827/fannie_fredd... Westamerica to Participate in Lehman Brothers Financial Services Conference (GlobeNewswire)- August 27, 2008http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/080827/149301.html FBR: Westamerica has big Fannie, Freddie exposure (AP)- August 27, 2008 Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. analyst David Rochester said Wednesday that Westamerica Bancorp is among the banks he covers with substantial equity exposure to troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080827/westamerica_... UPDATE - JPMorgan takes $600 mln hit on Fannie, Freddie pfd (at Reuters)- August 26, 2008http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/reuters/rss/SIG=1165jh9eu/*http://www.reuters.com/... Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares rise (AP)- August 25, 2008 Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac soared Monday in a respite from their battering in recent days, while some regional banks saw their stocks sink on worries they could be swept up in the turmoil surrounding the mortgage finance giants.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080825/mortgage_gia... Fannie, Freddie rescue could hurt regional banks (AP)- August 25, 2008 Some regional banks with substantial holdings in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock could suffer from the uncertainty over the mortgage finance giants' fate and the possibility that the government will rescue them, an analyst said Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080825/regional_ban... |