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Where the Money Is 10.18.13

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Is Bank of America’s business model sustainable? Motley Fool banking analyst David Hanson is joined by John Reeves to take a look at Friday’s top headlines and search Twitter for some hidden insights.

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0:00.0

Is the future of Bank of America sustainable and should Google by Tesla?

0:05.0

You're in the right place folks because this is where the money is.

0:08.0

Welcome to the show folks. I am David Hansen today joined by fool.com's John Reeves.

0:16.7

Thanks for being here.

0:17.7

Hey David, thank you. We are going to start the show like we always do looking at

0:20.7

today's headlines and the first one we got is from the Wall Street

0:23.6

Journal here and it's about Bank of America in the news again Bank of

0:26.9

America weighs prohibiting overdrafts so Bank of America makes a lot of

0:32.1

their money from fees.

0:34.0

A couple years ago they came out and said,

0:36.2

we're not going to do overdrafts at point of sale transactions anymore.

0:39.3

So you can't go out and buy a cup of coffee

0:42.2

and get an overdraft fee without opting into some coverage.

0:45.1

And now this article saying that Bank of America is considering completely doing away with overdrafts

0:49.6

even when you write a check, when you go to an an ATM is this good news for Bank of America

0:55.0

shareholders or better news for Bank of America customers?

0:58.0

Yeah, you know great question I think the first thing I thought of is that

1:01.0

yeah this is a lot of money this is not it is this is billions of

1:03.9

dollars but interestingly enough I think there's two sides to it on the one

1:07.4

hand it hurts them financially right but on the other hand I wonder is this

1:11.1

maybe something that is good for customers I mean they've

1:13.8

struggled with their reputation and it's more transparent it's sort of

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