BHF News and Press, Brighthouse Financial Inc. From 04/02/19

March delivered a spectacular crop of new preferred stock issues, almost all of which are offering cumulative dividends and half come with investment grade ratings. Last December no new preferreds were issued; for January I described only four new preferreds while February’s preferre...

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Dow Inc will replace DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP ) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on April 2 following the chemical corporation's breakup into three smaller companies - Dow, DuPont and Corteva Agriscience. More news on: DowDuPont Inc., Brighthouse Financial, Inc., Read more ...

Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: XHR ) is up 5.2% after hours as it's one of the companies making moves in the latest S&P index changes . More news on: Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Trex Company, Inc., Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Tech stocks news, Consumer stocks news, ...

NEW YORK , March 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") will make the following changes to the S&P 500, S&P 100, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600: Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW) will be added to the S&P 500 prior to the open of trading on ...

The major averages all got a modest boost after the FOMC's unexpected dovishness - the central bank now essentially seeing no more rate hikes this cycle vs. expectations of another 50 basis points one quarter ago. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, SPDR S&P Bank ETF, SPD...

AM Best has assigned a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating (Long-Term IR) of “bbb-” to the $425 million 6.6% non-cumulative preferred stock, Series A recently issued by Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (Brighthouse) (headquartered in Charlotte, NC) [NASDAQ: BHF]. The outlook assigned to...

David Einhorn is narrowing his hedge fund's focus on fewer names that he has more confidence in, after turning in its worst performance ever last year. More news on: Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd., Brighthouse Financial, Inc., General Motors Company, Financial stocks news, Read more ......

Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ: BHF ) says it and CFO Anant Bhalla decided to " part ways amicably ," effective March 14, 2019. More news on: Brighthouse Financial, Inc., Financial stocks news, Read more ...