Financials: 5 Top Financial Sector Stories of 2017
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Financials takes a look back at the five biggest news stories of 2017 and what they mean to investors.
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| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the |
| 0:18.7 | stock market every day. |
| 0:20.3 | It's Monday, December 18th, and you're listening to the Banking and Financial Show. |
| 0:24.0 | We're kicking off an industry focus wide year-in review theme week. |
| 0:28.4 | For each sector, we're recapping the major stories and headlines from 2017. |
| 0:35.9 | In addition to this, the industry focus team is continuing in a long tradition of offering the best content of fool.com from this year. That's 2017 in this case though we've done it in |
| 0:45.0 | past years as well. So if you're interested in that content send us an email |
| 0:49.2 | an industry focus at fool.com and the team will reply with the list of some of our best |
| 0:56.0 | content from fool.com this year. I'm your host Michael and I'm joined by |
| 0:59.5 | Matt Frankel. Matt welcome back. Always good to be here. |
| 1:03.2 | Fantastic. |
| 1:03.9 | All right, so let's hop right in. |
| 1:05.7 | We're going to be talking about five major stories |
| 1:08.6 | in financials this year. |
| 1:10.7 | Story number one, Jerome Powell as the new Fed chair. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, so this was not unexpected. |
| 1:19.7 | President Trump did not nominate, |
| 1:21.4 | re-nominate Janet Yellen, which kind of sent off a big wave of speculation |
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