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Apr 2023
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Chris Whalen on Big Bank Earnings and th...

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Chris Whalen, chairman of Whalen Global Advisors, returns to Forward Guidance to comment on the ample and growing earnings of the big banks (particularly JPMorgan Chase, whose stock surged over 7% on rosy net income and increasing deposits).  Whalen argues that banks’ unrealized losses on their securities due to interest rate risk have gone down dramatically ... Show More
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