JPMorgan’s soaring profit was boosted by a one-time $4.6 billion gain on the stake it holds in Visa. That’s a big reason the profit blew by analyst estimates. History lesson: The banks created Visa and many of them still hold legacy stakes.
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JPMorgan Chase’s profit in the second quarter rose 41% from a year ago to $21.2 billion, the bank said Tuesday. Excluding significant items, the bank's’s net income was $16.9 billion. Shares of the largest U.S. bank rose 1.3% in premarket trading.
In an unusual pileup, five of the biggest banks all report earnings on the same morning when usually they are a bit more spread out. We’ll be working in overdrive here for you. Here’s the schedule of what to expect (roughly): 6:45 A.
Q2 bank earnings kick off Tuesday with the biggest names on Wall Street reporting at once, and one senior analyst thinks the results could shock even the optimists. But his most interesting call has nothing to do with JPMorgan or Goldman.

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton shares what investors should be on the lookout for on Tuesday, July 14, including bank earnings from JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and Goldman Sachs (GS), along with the release of the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) report.
The coming batch of report cards from America’s largest banks is set to reflect that Wall Street’s core businesses are doing exceptionally well, driven by a Main Street that’s doing well enough. Strong equities-trading and investment-banking activity this spring should propel earnings at Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs, which each report within hours of each other on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley, U.S. Bancorp, and other lenders are scheduled to report in the days after.
The four largest U.S. banks and Goldman Sachs are poised to report higher profits from a year ago thanks to buoyant equity markets, a solid economy, and merger and IPO activity. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman are due to release their second-quarter earnings results on Tuesday in an unusually packed morning for bank investors.
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Evercore recently said the overall landscape for big banks remains promising, creating an environment ripe for continued investment.
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Big banks are kicking off second quarter earnings season on Tuesday, Jul. 14, with reports from JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), and Citigroup (C). Morgan Stanley (MS) posts its results on Wednesday. RBC Capital Markets analyst Gerard Cassidy shares which banks he thinks could surprise markets and investors.
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Yahoo Finance's Brooke DiPalma takes a closer look at the top stories for investors to watch this week, including the latest CPI reading and quarterly earnings reports from Netflix (NFLX), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), and Morgan Stanley (MS).

Few examples better capture the resurgence of big banks than Jamie Dimon's special retention award, which has climbed in value from roughly $53 million five years ago to $280 million today.