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radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week's senior analyst Emily Flippin and

Jason Moser. Good to see you both.

Howdy, howdy.

Morning.

We'll lay this headlines from Wall Street, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is our guest this

weekend. As always, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar. But we begin with the

big banks, City Group, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase all out with earnings reports

on Friday morning. Jason, you host the financials episode of our industry focus podcast every

Monday. Am I wrong or was JP Morgan's fourth quarter the most impressive of this group?

No, you're definitely not wrong. I would agree with that. To me, there are the big banks

and then there is JP Morgan. It's the bank that stands out among the rest. I think that's

for a few reasons. When you look at the banks in total, JP Morgan City Group, Wells Fargo,

they were all pretty good reports, relatively speaking. JP Morgan is the bank that has

performed the best throughout the past several years because of leadership primarily. I

think that Jamie Dheim and he's been the CEO of the company since 2006. He has always taken

this philosophy of making sure that they are never caught, essentially, sleep at the

wheel, so to speak, right? There's a section on their earnings report called Fortress

Principles. That just goes back to the idea that they're creating a balance sheet that

will let them withstand any type of economic crisis. Clearly, they've been through a couple

at least. Wells Fargo, clearly a story of turnaround still. I think that going into this quarter,

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