By the end of 2012 analysts began asking why the company was performing worse than it had during the peak of the financial crisis, when consumer confidence was even lower. (fortune.com)
It has, but this has been the case since October 2009, when that number reached a high of 10 %, during the peak of the financial crisis. (fortune.com)
Bank of America had agreed to buy the floundering bank in 2008 at the peak of the financial crisis. (fortune.com)