One Regional Bank Stock’s Woes
You can watch the way the subprime mortgage crisis has worked itself into both the economy and the market when you see its effects on specific companies. While Citigroup’s (NYSE: C) nightmarish immersion in the subprime waters has been copiously documented, as it was front-and-center on not just financial media but mainstream media, many regional banks and mortgage companies, though they didn’t have tens of billions of dollars in writedowns, were still hit hard. One such regional bank is National City Corp (NYSE: NCC). National City does most of its business in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Pennsylvania—the midwest…