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Speaker 1: This is a Bloomberg Business Flash from Bloomberg World Headquarters.

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pelt. The Dow, the SMP, NEZ dank all

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Speaker 1: trading higher. The SMP and Record Territory Dow very close

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Speaker 1: first Word Breaking news desk for today's afternoon call, and

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Speaker 1: here's Bill Maloney. Good afternoon, Charlie. Stocks are rising again today,

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Speaker 1: with the Dow currently hired by a hundred and fifty points.

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Speaker 1: Sup's game thirteen and NAZAC rises thirty four. The SUP

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Speaker 1: five hundred rises for a fifth day. That's the longest

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Speaker 1: streak since March. Over In Europe, Italy rose one point

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Speaker 1: six percent and Germany climbed one point four percent. Back

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Speaker 1: In the US small cap six hundred games two points

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Speaker 1: and the US ten yield at one point five three percent.

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Speaker 1: Night out of tennis be sectors are higher, led by

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Speaker 1: games and financials, materials and technology only utilities foul down

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Speaker 1: transports APT perform gain a hundred and three points, nasobiotexs

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Speaker 1: rise eight and the VIX is down by three percent,

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Speaker 1: forty four forty nine, and it's US trading debut. Down

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Speaker 1: leaders included Goldman, Sachs, JP Morgan, and Apple, while United

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Speaker 1: health Group and Verizon led to the downside. MetLife jumped

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Speaker 1: as much as six point to percent amid gains in

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Speaker 1: the insurers, while Rim Resorts fell three percent. Shares were downgraded.

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Speaker 1: Over at JP Morgan Live from the First Big News Desk,

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Speaker 1: I'm Bill Maloney, Charlie all right, hey, thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Bill Maloney, and they here live breaking news over your

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Peloton. That so Bloomberg Business Flash. This is

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Speaker 1: taking stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pim Fox on Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan. Shares of JP Morgan Chase are higher right

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Speaker 1: now by more than two percent volume more than twenty

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Speaker 1: three million shares. Here to tell us more about JP

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Speaker 1: Morgan's stronger than expected a second quarter results is Fred Cannon.

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Speaker 1: He is Global director of Research at KBW. Fred, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for being with us. Great to be

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Speaker 1: on Tim, Thanks for having me. Okay, so uh, stronger

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Speaker 1: than expected second quarter results, a surprise increase in revenue,

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Speaker 1: a surge in the trading business. Let's start there. How

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Speaker 1: did that happen? Well, one of the things that Brexit

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Speaker 1: did was an increased volatility near the end of the quarter,

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Speaker 1: and so we saw trading pick up and already been

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Speaker 1: a bit better in the first quarter, quite a bit

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Speaker 1: better actually the first quarter, and then we got a

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Speaker 1: little surge there at the end that got us the nice,

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Speaker 1: nice beat on trading. So will that continue? Probably not.

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Speaker 1: As we entered the summer months, especially August, we always

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Speaker 1: see a slowdown in trading in the back half of

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Speaker 1: the year tends to be slow. Plus there's some big

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Speaker 1: long term pressures on that business from regulation, the amount

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Speaker 1: of capital that banks have to hold against it. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about the lower expenses at JP Morgan Chase, so

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Speaker 1: they can continue to cut I think the short answer

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Speaker 1: is yes, they did get a special benefit in a

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Speaker 1: reversal of some legal fees this quarter, and we know

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Speaker 1: that's not going to continue. But overall, what you're going

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Speaker 1: to see all the big banks do in this low

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Speaker 1: interest rate environment is very much focused on expenses. So

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Speaker 1: I think the trend at JP Morgan to control and

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Speaker 1: contain expenses. You're going to see from all the big

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Speaker 1: banks and loan growth that exceeded what ten How did

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Speaker 1: that happen? Annualize credit cards? It looks like JP Morgan

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Speaker 1: is gearing up on credit cards. We think there's probably

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Speaker 1: a little bit of market share steel from American Express

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Speaker 1: that's been struggling recently. But also it looks like all

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Speaker 1: these credit card lenders are willing to take a little

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Speaker 1: bit more risk, go down this credit spectrum and push

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Speaker 1: growth now. Part of the conference call included comments from

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Speaker 1: the chief financial Officer, Marianne Lake, saying that the June

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Speaker 1: jobs report, wage growth and retail sales and housing are healthy,

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Speaker 1: and that the US economy is set for continued moderate growth.

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Speaker 1: Is that necessary for the results of JP Morgan and

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Speaker 1: other banks to improve. Absolutely. Remember, we have a huge

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Speaker 1: head wind from the interest rate environment. The market hitting

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Speaker 1: record levels, but the ten year bond rate is one

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Speaker 1: point five three. I think we just heard that's a

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Speaker 1: very tough environment for banks. Uh, it means that spread

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Speaker 1: on their business is low. Um, So what has to

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Speaker 1: happen is we have to have other offsets and so

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Speaker 1: as she was talking about today. We really need this

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Speaker 1: loan growth economic growth to continue at a good pace

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Speaker 1: in the US, because we're not seeing it overseas well.

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Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, said

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Speaker 1: that he hopes that politicians are going to be sensible

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Speaker 1: when they make decisions relating to the European Union in Britain,

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Speaker 1: and that he hopes that businesses are going to get

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Speaker 1: some time to adjust to this new reality. Do you

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Speaker 1: be heard. I don't know about politicians being sensible is

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Speaker 1: something that we can expect this year, to be honest him, Um, certainly. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can be hopeful on that, but we'll

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Speaker 1: just have to see. I mean, it was a big

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Speaker 1: move for Britain to exit the Union. We've gotten what

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Speaker 1: one of my clients called a brolly here at the

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Speaker 1: end of the Braxton vote, right, but we will see

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Speaker 1: if it continues. I mean, I think things seem a

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Speaker 1: than perhaps people have thought initially, but we have a

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Speaker 1: long ways to go to work through this. What is

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Speaker 1: the best way to put a value on a bank. Uh,

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Speaker 1: what we really have to do is look at the

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Speaker 1: profitability to bank, and then we have to back into

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Speaker 1: what the price to book value return should be. So

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan makes around, you know, ten eleven return on equities.

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Speaker 1: We think in this environment the cost of equity is

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Speaker 1: probably nine percent. They should earn around where they are

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Speaker 1: or maybe a little higher one point three one point

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Speaker 1: four of times book value. So that's the best way

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Speaker 1: to think about banks. Especially remember when you're thinking about

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Speaker 1: these trading this uh, fixed income trading, you can't forecast that.

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Speaker 1: That's just a crapshoot each each quarter. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of these things can't be forecasted, so you really have

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Speaker 1: to fall back on some of these price to book ratios.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna ask you to forecast or

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Speaker 1: at least roll the dice a little bit, because we're

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Speaker 1: going to get results tomorrow from City Group as well

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Speaker 1: as Wells Fargo. What do you expect we expect some polls.

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Speaker 1: Who remember, expectations have been reduced for all these big

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Speaker 1: banks coming into earnings as a result of the interest

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Speaker 1: rate environment. I think some of the things that we

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Speaker 1: saw at JP Morgan should pull through for Wells Fargo.

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Speaker 1: Mortgage business is a big part of their business. They

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Speaker 1: won't recognize as much of that income as JP Morgan

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Speaker 1: because of some obscure accounting issues, but yet that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a big help for Wells Fargo, and we're quite

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Speaker 1: positive on Wells Cities a little bit. You never know,

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Speaker 1: they do tend to stumble on their quarters, so we'll

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Speaker 1: just have to say. And next week we're going to

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Speaker 1: get results from Bank of America, Goldman Sacks as well

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Speaker 1: as Morgan Stanley. Is there a standout among those three

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Speaker 1: for you? Well, I think one reason you saw more

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Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs be the big winner today is is some

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Speaker 1: of the read across from JP Morgan it would be

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Speaker 1: quite positive, both on trading and on some of the

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Speaker 1: capital markets activities and some of the investment banking. So

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Speaker 1: that's the one to watch. The stock has been beat

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Speaker 1: up pretty good here in the last last few months,

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Speaker 1: so that's one to watch. The pop I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for spending time and giving us

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Speaker 1: some detailed information about the banking sector. Fred Cannon is

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Speaker 1: Global director of Research at k b W. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the shares of JP Morgan chase. They're up two percent.

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Speaker 1: Shares of City Group they are up nearly three percent,

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Speaker 1: Bank of America shares up at two percent, Goldman Sachs

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Speaker 1: shares a higher by three percent, and Morgan Stanley a

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Speaker 1: gain of more than three percent. You're listening to taking Stock.

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Speaker 1: I'm pim Fox and this is Bloomberg coming up on

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