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Net income surged 45% as revenue hit a decade high of $24.8 billion.

Capital One is due to report after Tuesday’s close. The bank’s vast card business is crucial for the bank and offers a broad look at how consumers are doing.

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Earnings results showed generally solid credit health among borrowers, strong dealmaking activity, and blowout trading numbers.

Find insight on Svenska Handelsbanken’s loan book, China’s markets and more in the latest Market Talks covering financial services.

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So far in the Q2 cycle, several companies, including Micron and Citigroup, have been standouts, whereas preliminary results from IBM have been disappointing.

The banking giant just showed off its profit engine, but now it has to prove this new power is permanent.

Microsoft has not been an easy stock to own in 2026. It's down more than 20% year to date and nearly 23% over the past year, a run that's frustrated a lot of investors who expected the company's AI push to show up in the share price by now. The spending has been enormous, Azure has kept growing, ...

Q2 earnings season kicked off with the big banks swinging for the fences, and Jefferies sees four dividend-paying giants still leaving serious upside on the table despite the rate uncertainty clouding the second half of 2026.

JPMorgan, Goldman and other big banks are raking in trading revenue this year as “the market is clearly extremely risk-on.”

While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.

Wall Street cleared this earnings season’s first major hurdle with room to spare, as the nation’s biggest banks pummeled profit forecasts. “Bank earnings are often described as a scoreboard for the financial sector,” said Ruben Dalfovo, investment strategist at Saxo Bank. “They are more useful as an economic medical examination, and the early numbers suggest the patient remains active, and dealmaking appears healthier.”

IBM stock has its worst day ever, PayPal gets a takeover offer, big banks see deal boom time, and more news to start your day.

Virtually everything worked in big banks’ favor in the second quarter, but there’s no shortage of things that could go wrong.

Virtually everything worked in big banks’ favor in the second quarter, but there’s no shortage of things that could go wrong.

Citi says its strong Q2 reflects a stronger franchise and is using the momentum to accelerate investments aimed at supporting more durable returns.

Citigroup Inc (C) reports a decade-high quarterly revenue of $24.8 billion, driven by robust performance across all segments and strategic investments for future growth.

Five of the nation’s largest lenders—including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs—reported a 39% jump in combined earnings to over $49 billion, driven by surging Wall Street fees from a widespread “risk-on” environment, the recent SpaceX IPO, and the AI boom.

Lenders’ results contrast with measures that show the highest credit card delinquency rates in 15 years.

Second-quarter earnings and June consumer inflation data offset continuing uncertainty about the Strait of Hormuz.

Find insight on Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and more in the latest Market Talks covering financial services.

Moby summary of Citigroup Inc.'s Q2 2026 earnings call

(Updates with market moves at the end of the day.) US stocks advanced Tuesday as investors cheere