US bank rally is comic relief: earnings will fall before they recover
US bank stocks charged higher when Wells Fargo and JP Morgan reported second quarter results last week. Investors saw signs that the worst of the writedowns and losses were over. But this rally was a mere pantomime — conditions are still getting tougher and many of the banks are not admitting how bad things really are.
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