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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. Bank earnings,

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan, Chase City Group, they top estimates, Wells Fargo

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Speaker 1: misses here to tell us everything about them, as Charles Peabody,

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Speaker 1: he is the president of Portalis Partners. Charles, a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to hear your voice, tell us your impression about the

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Speaker 1: results of three of these three banks, and then maybe

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Speaker 1: extrapolate into some of the other earnings that we're going

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Speaker 1: to receive. Sure, I mean there's a wide dispersion in

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Speaker 1: the results. I mean JP Morgan had a very at

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Speaker 1: very robust quarter, UM City was sort of weak, and

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Speaker 1: Wells Fargo was disappointing. UM but on average, what you're

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Speaker 1: getting out of this quarter is maybe two revenue growth

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Speaker 1: year over year, which is I think pretty anemic given

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Speaker 1: you know, higher interest rates, deregulation, tax cuts, four GDP etcetera.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the disappointment here. Okay, so what

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Speaker 1: could they have done to show and what does this mean?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say that again. What does this mean

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Speaker 1: for it to be for for for grows to be

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Speaker 1: more nic given all of the positive headwear, positive tail wins.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what does that mean to you? I think

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Speaker 1: that's why we've had multiple compression over the last six months.

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Speaker 1: In other ways, we had this multiple expansion last year

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Speaker 1: when earings really weren't that robust. We're getting, you know,

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Speaker 1: a better bottom line earrings, but not a better revenue picture.

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Speaker 1: So the formula that the bank industry is using is

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Speaker 1: taking low single digit revenue growth, turning it into mid

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Speaker 1: single digit pretext income growth through positive operating leverage and

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Speaker 1: benign credit costs, and then taking that mid single digit

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Speaker 1: pretext income growth and turning into double digit net income

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Speaker 1: from tax cuts and share buy backs. But the latter

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Speaker 1: two items are financial engineering techniques, and no one's going

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Speaker 1: to pay a premium for that. You need better revenue growth.

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Speaker 1: How are they expected to do that? Charles? Is the

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Speaker 1: business of banking changed and are these bankings for banks

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Speaker 1: responding to it? Well? I think revenue growth is going

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Speaker 1: to continue to disappoint and and so we're in what

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Speaker 1: I call end of cycle economic dynamics, and that means

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Speaker 1: you started to look at the second derivative, and the

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Speaker 1: second river means what's happening to the rate of growth

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Speaker 1: of the key line items. So revenues probably are going

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Speaker 1: to slow, credit costs are going to pick up, and

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Speaker 1: expenses can't be cut anymore. They're being well, you know, maintained,

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Speaker 1: but it can't be cut. So I think you're at

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Speaker 1: peak profitability. Well, Charles, just follow up on this then

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Speaker 1: you know you've I'm sure you have seen and read

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Speaker 1: about all of the different financial technology companies that have

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Speaker 1: either raised money or have really created a whole another

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Speaker 1: financial system in parallel to the traditional banking system. Is

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Speaker 1: all of that market value value that the banks could

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Speaker 1: have taken for themselves if they had been more entrepreneurial. Well,

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Speaker 1: they are making a push. If you're talking about digital banking,

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Speaker 1: they are making and that's where a lot of the

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Speaker 1: expense growth is related to UM is their technological investments UM.

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Speaker 1: So banks are trying to UM keep up with the

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Speaker 1: non banks. I think over a full business cycle, you're

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Speaker 1: going to see a greater fallout in the non banks

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Speaker 1: because a lot of people have said that the risk

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Speaker 1: up getting a little bit more afraid than the big

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Speaker 1: shares are getting penalized more than others. Down actually up

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Speaker 1: from the earlier losses, about down nearly two percent. Now, Um,

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Speaker 1: do you think that we're seeing a bottom for this

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Speaker 1: Now that said, one thing, I want to differentiate between

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Speaker 1: the January highs were the highs. When you say developing

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Speaker 1: bear market, developing bear market in all stocks are financial stocks, well,

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Speaker 1: financials specifically, they tend to underperform in the last twelve

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Speaker 1: in that period of time, Right, Are there any specific

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Speaker 1: think JP Morgan had a very solid result, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the fund a line fundamentals can be bought. I think

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Speaker 1: a trading basis buying Goldman sachs um So. I think

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Speaker 1: that's where you saw the big beat this quarter UM

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Speaker 1: was on investment banking. Are you saying that you think

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Speaker 1: that there's going to be an economic downturn downturn within

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Speaker 1: the next twelve months. I think that's what the stocks

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Speaker 1: the bank stocks, they've underperformed. I'm talking about the large

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Speaker 1: like P and C and U, S, Bann Corporatewell Spargo

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Speaker 1: that they've underperformed the last six and twelve and eighteen months. Now.

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Speaker 1: and look at how it's performed. It's been an eighteen

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Speaker 1: is compressing and that's what's driving bank stocks down. And

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Speaker 1: both of those things are taken as the same sign.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that is that kind of what you're

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Speaker 1: That means deposit rates aretin rising faster than loan yields

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Speaker 1: are rising, and that's squeezing the NIM. And that's what

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Speaker 1: in future quarters as the deposit data picks up. Charles Peabody,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Charles Peabody,

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Speaker 1: president of Portala's Partners in New York. President Trump is

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Speaker 1: gearing up to head over to Helsinki, where he is

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Speaker 1: going to be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. What's

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Speaker 1: he got to talk about? Let's ask that's somebody who

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Speaker 1: Atlantic Council in Washington, d C. Joining us. Now, so, Aria,

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Speaker 1: what do you think he's going to talk about? Well,

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Speaker 1: there are three or four key subjects to discuss. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The United States and Russia came to blows in Syria. Actually,

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Speaker 1: unprecedented since the worst days of the Cold War. Uh. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: Mr Trump said that Crimea is Russian because they speak Russian. Well,

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Speaker 1: in fact, they speak Russian because the Russian Empire and

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Speaker 1: that purpose, they're also building a massive pipeline into Turkey.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of commerce issues here. I think

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Speaker 1: Trump already made it known that he wants a he

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Speaker 1: need a record. Where did a tape of that? Trump?

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Speaker 1: Comcast did enter into the bidding war. But Comcast would

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Speaker 1: still going to be a tough, tough fight to get

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Speaker 1: I think I think Comcast needs sky UM, and that's

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Speaker 1: probably going to be where they shift their focus right

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Speaker 1: now thirty seconds. Is it common practice for the president

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Speaker 1: to insert him or herself into the anti trade decisions

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Speaker 1: of the Justice Department? Well, his name wasn't rough Fronts Tier. Um.

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Speaker 1: These are all people that report to him. But again

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Speaker 1: I'm just speculating them, you know. Probably, I'm just wondering

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Speaker 1: whether that's common for administrations to have a more very

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Speaker 1: direct role in deciding antitrust policy. Not generally. Not generally.

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Speaker 1: I mean we have seen it at certain points in history.

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Speaker 1: Certainly back in the sixties. There are a few decisions UM,

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Speaker 1: particularly think believe related to some steel mergers. UM. There

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Speaker 1: have been some as related to security concerns UM for

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Speaker 1: the United States. But I think in a case like this,

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Speaker 1: it's very unusual. Marianne Halford, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Marianne Halford, global Media and Entertainment strategist

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Speaker 1: for O C and C Strategy Consultants in New York,

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Speaker 1: A T and T shares responding to the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice's decision to appeal the the the decision that they

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Speaker 1: had shares down to percent. Thanks for listening to the

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