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Financials: An Early Look at Bank Earnings and 2 Big Fintech Stories to Watch

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, and host Jason Moser take a look at fourth quarter earnings from Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), and Citigroup(NYSE: C). They also dive into Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) announcement that it plans to launch a fintech startup, as well as the scrapped merger plans between Visa (NYSE: V) and Plaid. Finally, hear why Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is on Matt's radar this week, while Jason has his eye on a certain streaming giant.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

0:11.0

I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today

0:16.0

we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday.

0:20.4

And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech.

0:23.0

Let's dive in.

0:24.0

It's Monday January 18th.

0:29.0

I'm your host Jason Moser and markets are closed today for Martin Luther King

0:32.9

Jr day but we still got plenty to talk about here on industry focus so on this

0:37.2

week's financial show we're gonna take a look at the big banks earnings that

0:40.3

just kicked off earnings season on Friday.

0:43.0

Walmart is getting a to FinTech, Visa and Plaid are going their separate ways after all.

0:49.0

We'll wrap up the show with one to watch for you.

0:51.0

Joining me this week.

0:53.0

That's my man, certified financial planner, Mr. Matt Frankl.

0:56.0

Matt, how's everything going?

0:57.3

Pretty good. We get a rare break in the middle of earning season.

1:00.5

We could take a step back and really digest the information now.

1:04.0

Yeah, exactly, yeah, I mean we, it's, I like that.

1:06.7

You get a little time to kind of digest and then I tell you this week it really starts kicking

1:10.9

off and then next week, man, I mean we're talking about a lot of

1:13.8

companies that are going to be reporting here over the next few weeks and we always

1:17.4

enjoy earnings season plenty to dig into with all sorts of different businesses

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