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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: about banks here. We've got banks earnings are gonna be

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Speaker 1: can be really interested to hear what these banks CEOs

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Speaker 1: term of a rising interest rate environment. Dave Ellison, he's

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Speaker 1: a portfolio manager at the Hennessey Large and Small Cap

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Speaker 1: Financial Funds Day, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: We got that inflation print today kind of in line

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Speaker 1: How do you expect the banks to kind of talk

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Speaker 1: calls over the next week or two. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: the anyway, good morning, But to everyone, I think when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the banks, I mean, they're you know,

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Speaker 1: erneys are gonna be good. Credit is going to be fine.

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Speaker 1: think the narrative for you know, the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: Rates are a factor, but you know again, they FED

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Speaker 1: year or beyond. And I don't think they're going to

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Speaker 1: demand for credit. So, uh, you know, the most important

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Speaker 1: which will drive earnings higher. Will they make any money

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Speaker 1: on that? I mean, if there's no net interest margin

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Speaker 1: so you can make you know that the profitability of

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Speaker 1: the industry is very good here. It's not bad by

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Speaker 1: Uh JP Morgan's making a billion dollars a month after

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Speaker 1: and earnings. Dave, great to get your picks and your

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Speaker 1: Dave Ellison there um from Hennessy Large and Small Cat

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Speaker 1: Financial Funds. Let's bring an Alex jail Off right now,

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Speaker 1: and I got a lot of talk about with you. Alex.

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Speaker 1: But it's all coming back to cash flow, all right, Alex,

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Speaker 1: a friend of this show. All right, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: five G. It's rolling out all things great. Everybody loves

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Speaker 1: five gun. Be able to download a movie in like

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Speaker 1: a nanosecond. But apparently there's some problem with airlines and

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Speaker 1: airlines have about five G? Yes, yes I can. And

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Speaker 1: manual transmit. That's a great People can't buy them, most

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