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Speaker 2: Herman Chan has his CFA.

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Speaker 3: He's also been monitoring the bank earnings and JP Morgan

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Speaker 3: got us started today, although the stock, as John mentioned,

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Speaker 3: five hundred. So Herman big takeaway for JP Morgan's latest results.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, takeaway since that the performance was strong, So we

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Speaker 4: were talking about really strong markets, trading revenue year every year, investment,

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Speaker 4: Magina game with Solo lights, and then the balance sheet

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Speaker 4: lending growth was really good.

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Speaker 5: So solid quarter all around.

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Speaker 4: Guidance was in line with what they had expected heading

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Speaker 4: into quarter, but a couple of lingering things. Higher expenses

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Speaker 4: We're talking about nine billion dollar increase in expenses, and

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Speaker 4: then the credit card cap is still lingering.

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Speaker 5: Across the JP Morgan and the large banks.

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Speaker 6: Herman, since everyone's been talking about the proposed cap by

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Speaker 6: President Trump on credit card fees. What was the messaging

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Speaker 6: from JP Morgan on the impact of that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the messaging was that this would have drastic repercussions

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Speaker 3: And JP Morgan is obviously a lot more sensitive to

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 4: So that's adding about two point that's adding twenty billion bounces,

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Speaker 5: So that's something that will be helpful for them.

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Speaker 4: But really, JP Morgan is one of the more active

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Speaker 6: What's the thing, Hermann that stood out most to you

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Speaker 4: Really the takeaways were just how forthfore they were on

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Speaker 5: This is going to have.

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Speaker 4: Really big repercussions for economic activity in the United States

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Speaker 4: Right, So a lot of it seems to be posturing

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Speaker 5: So more to come on that front.

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Speaker 3: Let's shift gears and talk about big tech because the

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Speaker 7: Now we go back in history. You know, Apple doesn't

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Speaker 3: Scarlettfu and Alex Samanova for Paul Sweeney. I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: tired of shopping. I've done so much of it in

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Speaker 6: It's allowing to walk into a store these days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, price plants are way too high.

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Speaker 3: And then also I'm just tired of it because I

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Speaker 3: But maybe technology will help me. Maybe it'll make it easier,

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Speaker 3: bring in Travis Hesse, a CEO of Commerce which is

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Speaker 3: treated on the NASAC under the ticker CMRC. Travis are

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Speaker 3: going to tell us how AI is changing shopping, but

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Speaker 3: Delta is the first airline to report earnings as well,

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Speaker 9: Airbus is a three thirty. Again, the Boeing wide bodies

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Speaker 9: I just told you twenty eight ish years old. Interesting

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Speaker 9: to see them come in for the seven eighty seven.

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Speaker 9: That's really I think, been a category leader in that

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Speaker 9: small narrow body world. Boeing has over one thousand orders

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Speaker 9: for that airplane. We see rates continue to rise, which

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Speaker 9: will improve profitability at Boeing as they put more through

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Speaker 9: put in that seven eight. I thought it was a

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Speaker 9: bit of an endorsement for seven eight, even though Delta

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Speaker 9: is not going to say that. Probably.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, George, you mentioned that Delta is traditionally an airbus carrier.

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Speaker 2: Do you think we'll see more of that?

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Speaker 3: These airlines kind of splitting the difference between Boeing and Airbus.

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Speaker 9: You know, I think every airline has to be a

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Speaker 9: little it that way in order in order to keep

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Speaker 9: the manufacturers competitive. Right, If the manufacturer knows you just

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Speaker 9: got to come in for their product all the time,

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Speaker 9: I do think that hurts you. But a lot of

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Speaker 9: times that we see a lot of airlines have a

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Speaker 9: preponderance of a certain type of product. It keeps costs down,

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Speaker 9: right because you train your pilots for one type of

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Speaker 9: wide body for one type of narrow body, and helps

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Speaker 9: you keep your cost down. So there's and your maintenance

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Speaker 9: pushes easier. Yeah, fair Parts needs a lighter.

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