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dot com slash fool. Welcome to industry focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Monday, January 22nd, and we're talking big bank earnings and investing today.

I'm your host Michael, and I'm joined by Matt Frankel as per usual

Matt welcome back to the show.

Thanks always good to be here and get back in the swing of things in the new year.

I know I was about to say it's only our second show so far in 2018 because just the Monday holidays have really gotten in the way.

So if you missed us, dear listeners, we missed you too and we're glad to be back.

So before we dive into Big Bank Earnings, which is the big news of the day, it wouldn't be a

financials episode, let's face it, if I didn't offer you something to email in about.

So today's episode is best listened to with a broader perspective on Big Banks.

I highly recommend listening to our October 23 episode in which we covered Q3 Big Bank earnings

for perspective.

And we'll be referencing that some during this episode, but it's a good kind of background if you've

kind of forgotten where things are standing with the big banks.

We also discussed how to really understand big banks and how to compare them in that episode,

which is something we're just not really going to cover as much this time around.

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