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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

“Focus on the Fastball”

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Earnings season begins again and the big banks lead the way. (00:21) Ricky Mulvey and Jason Moser discuss: - The “new” growth engine for Goldman Sachs - The macro risks that Morgan Stanley highlighted. - Why the CEO of Adidas gave his cell phone number to 60,000 people. Plus, (14:20) Robert Brokamp and Alison Southwick open up the member mailbag and answer your questions about investing a lump sum, saving for kids, and ABLE accounts. Stocks mentioned: GS, MS, ADDYY Epic Bundle discount link: www.fool.com/epic198 Got a question for the show? Our email is podcasts@fool.com Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: Jason Moser, Alison Southwick, Robert Brokamp Producer: Mary Long Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

earnings are back and banks are leading the way. You're listening to Motley Full Money. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Jason Moser.

0:14.0

Thanks for being here. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Jason Moser.

0:23.6

Jason thanks for being here.

0:24.9

Hey Ricky, how's everything?

0:26.8

Going all right, you know we had negative 30 degrees last night

0:29.8

in Denver, Colorado.

0:31.4

So I am intensely grateful to have a podcast

0:35.5

to keep me from getting bored.

0:36.9

Well, we had a lot of snow here in Northern Virginia

0:39.6

as well, at least a lot for us. So yeah, it's a nice inside day.

0:45.0

There you go.

0:46.0

I always worry about starting with the weather,

0:48.0

but I think I think negative 30 is enough to make a note of.

0:51.0

It's an attention-getter.

0:52.0

We got two big banks reporting today. Let's start with

0:54.8

Goldman Sachs. The headline for this quarter seems to be different based on your measuring stick if it's compared to if you do it

1:02.0

quarter by quarter or year by year.

1:04.0

But let's start with the positive.

1:05.4

Earnings for the quarter up 50% from a year ago.

1:07.9

So how does that happen for a massive bank like Goldman Sachs?

1:11.2

Yeah, I think for oftentimes the most obvious suspect here is in the loan loss provision

1:18.0

line item there.

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