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Marketplace. In which we dip a toe into place.

In which we dip a toe into corporate profit reports to see what we might learn.

From American Public Media, This is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdall. It is Monday, today, the 14th of October.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

The cast of characters that affect what happens in this economy start obviously with

consumers we talk about all the time it then snakes its way through small

businesses government whether the politicians that be Congress in the White House

or independent agencies like the Federal Reserve.

It also makes a stop in corporate America, which is where we start today.

We're going to be hearing a lot from the big companies in this economy in the next couple of weeks

as those that are publicly traded release earnings reports for the most recent quarter.

Banks started us off this past Friday, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

More will report tomorrow.

And a theme that's emerging

is that many of those banks have been setting aside

more cash to cover bad loans.

Marketplace's Justin Ho gets his going with why banks are getting more cautious.

Banks always stock away some cash to cover loan losses.

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