Zions Bancorporation News

Zions Bancorp shareholders shouldn't expect the company to raise its paltry penny-a-share dividend this year or anticipate its share price will rise much higher soon, CEO Harris Simmons said Friday.

In addition to overseeing the usual business of electing directors and conducting other routine business, Simmons will be able to publicly celebrate the regional bank's first annual profit since 2007, when the recession began.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Zions Bancorp is among the publicly held Utah-based companies that have a history of paying dividends to their shareholders.

SALT LAKE CITY, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zions Direct , the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to purchase FDIC - insured Certificates of Deposit in its daily web-based auctions, announces its weekly auction results.

In April 2012, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index increased 0.7 percent from the month prior.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Zions Bancorp is among the publicly held Utah-based companies that have a history of paying dividends to their shareholders.

California Bank & Trust reported $29.7 million in profits for the first quarter, down 6 percent from $31.6 million in the same period last year.

Clean Power Finance , an online marketplace for residential solar financing and provider of solar sales software, MS Solar Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley , and Main Street Power Company , a North American solar developer and Power Purchase Agreement provider recently announced the creation of MySolar, a residential solar ... (more)

But that's how much is now available for residential solar leases through a tax-equity fund created by Clean Power Finance through a partnership with MS Solar Solutions Corp.

Jim Tustison of Zions Bank gives a lesson about money to students from Guadalupe School while touring the bank's vault in Salt Lake City last December.

JOKES about sacred underpants have reached epidemic proportions, thanks to Mitt Romney's presidential bid and the musical masterpiece by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, "The Book of Mormon". But the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to give it its full name, is fighting back.

The transaction is expected to fetch a net USD141.6m . The fresh capital will be earmarked for Zions' redemption of all of its series E fixed-rate resettable non-cumulative perpetual preferred shares outstanding, the company said.