Financials: How Did America’s Biggest Banks Perform in Q4?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With earnings season in full swing, we now have a good sense for how the nation’s biggest banks performed in the final months of 2016. To say it was a mixed bag would be an understatement. As The Motley Fool’s Michael Douglass and John Maxfield discuss on this week’s episode of Industry Focus: Financials, two of the nation’s biggest banks had breakout quarters, while two more reported particularly dismal results. Listen in to hear why, as well as to learn the one bank stock we think is best positioned to benefit going forward.
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| 0:21.9 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:27.0 | It's Monday, January 23rd, and we're talking Big Bank Earnings. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host Michael Douglas, Gabby LaPara has a cold and I'm joined on Skype by |
| 0:33.7 | Fool dot com banking expert John Maxfield John it's good to talk to you again on the |
| 0:38.1 | podcast it's been a little while it has been way too long Michael what we were we were just talking before the show? |
| 0:43.8 | Was it like two years ago that we did this together? |
| 0:46.0 | Something like that. |
| 0:47.0 | It was really kind of scarily long ago. |
| 0:50.0 | Fortunately, the podcast has improved. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm not sure I have but I I suppose listeners listen |
| 0:56.2 | send us an email at industry focus at fool.com if you think that with me here we we sound |
| 1:02.4 | reasonably good you know just just help me out here give me a |
| 1:05.4 | small ego boost be kind be kind yeah please be kind all right so let's talk |
| 1:11.3 | about bank earnings and before we get into specific banks, |
| 1:14.8 | let's talk about kind of the big overall drivers. |
| 1:17.4 | First one, of course, trading revenue. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, you know what? |
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