Financials: Bank Earnings Are Boring Again -- Thankfully
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
For years after the financial crisis, bank earnings fluctuated wildly due to high loan losses, volatile markets, and elevated legal expenses. Fortunately, this trend seems to have come to an end, as the results from the second quarter demonstrate.
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| 0:19.6 | That's F-O-O-O-L fool. Hello everyone, welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector |
| 0:27.3 | of the stock market every day. |
| 0:29.3 | You're listening to the Financials Edition taped today on Monday, July 24th, 2017. |
| 0:34.2 | My name is Gabby Lapera, and joining me on the phone |
| 0:36.9 | is John Maxfield, Motley Fool Contributing Expert, |
| 0:41.0 | and all-around awesome person. How's it going Maxfield? |
| 0:44.0 | It's going great. How are you doing Gabby? |
| 0:47.0 | Pretty good. It's earning season, which you know always gets the blood hot. |
| 0:53.0 | It does, it does. |
| 0:57.0 | Although I'll tell you that, and I wrote about this a couple weeks ago, |
| 1:00.0 | that bank earnings have thankfully returned to being relatively boring |
| 1:06.6 | which is a good thing not a bad thing. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah I don't know how many times you said on the show that no news is good news in this sector because when there's a lot of |
| 1:16.1 | news is generally just really bad for everyone. It's never like, oh yeah, there was an awesome merger and |
| 1:20.9 | now things are going to be easier or like oh hey they've come up with |
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