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represents different sides of the coin so i'd like to invite of senior vice president of the bank of america (clapping.) >> all right. well, good afternoon and first of all congratulations pardon me to the committee for the partnership for this beautiful bee beautiful building bank of america is proud to provide the tax credits and the along with the $6 million of loans for the erect of this and part of our trillion dollar 10 year commitment and more often than not it is not an easy answer as our elected officials know that t it can be hard to get to a yes. yes. in perseverance is takes other things and certainly there are times when there is no appropriate answer yet they deserve credit and this is not the largest place in town not the shiniest and but not this baby still a monument to getting to, yes first on the part of the community housing partnership so no you'll have funding no, we don't have the entitlements no. you can't put that here and no construction but here we are congratulations to gail and david and the partnerships bank of america and an award winner and others and the tena

you said bank of america is going to be interesting. what does that mean? it mean it will be lumpy with this part of the business? >> bank of america, almost half their revenues come from that interest income. more of a spread-based bank than some of the other money centers. they have merrill lynch which is an investment platform. if you're a bank that real ea doesn't have capital markets and, you know, you kind of pull as many expense leverage you can, the environment is getting awfully tough. some of the banks like jpmorgan, citi. they have the expense lever. scale matters more now than ever. we're starting to see the advantage of it. >> looking forward in terms of investment banks, goldman sachs is coming out later in the week. i know you sounded positive about that. what are you looking for in terms of their earnings that will impress or depress you? >> pretty good in the first quarter and pretty bad in a year ago first quarter. for goldman sachs a big player. they had a really good year last year for announcements. also in trading. the way trading has

bank of america was the one bank to fall short. ik: for a bank of their size they are well behind hundreds of millions of dollars behind jpmorgan in terms of sales and trading revenue and behind morgan stanley and goldman sachs which are smaller firms. not that long ago they used to be competitive. mike: this is where i think vision and strategy makes the difference. if you look at the annual report bankamerica -- bank of america talks about a lot of good things they've done in the past. james gorman says i'm not going to write about the past, i want to talk about the next five years. you see in this quarter, trading is much better at morgan stanley. the wealth management margin at morgan stanley increased. it declined it bank of america and they have a lot more earnings levers ahead which james gorman talks about in the ceo letter. they are held accountable to those targets. that's what we like to see as opposed to bankamerica with a don't have one public financial metric with a timeline that investors can hold them accountable to.

shoes of bank of america, he could say that bank of america made the referral and he got ripped off,s a sad story. charles: you work with a lot of athletes, you know, a lot of them come to you they have squandered a large part of the fortune, what do you tell them? how go they change it. >> i give them a nice road map, and a interesting apple gee. but i tell them, do not invest in any private investment until you have 3 million put away after taxes when they do invest in private, do not put more than 5% of your net worth, in that case, 150,000, in 5 or 10 different ones, then, reduce your spending, and that is how you go about it. >> don't get divorced, jamie -- >> i want to comment on the ca case. often times people are good what they do pro prog alley, not -- professional, we had ronnie, and narc us allen and others are who savvy, but the bank has a fiduciary obligation, if he signed off, it is a very tough case to win. >> the law firm, lawyer is saying that because of the representation, that they -- these people made when they worked at bank of america, and merrill lynch, they sa

if you are a growth investor you're not turned on by bank of america. >> if you have a choice you can buy wells fargo or jpmorgan or both of those. why wouldn't you do that as opposed to bank of america? >> wellsfargo, 54 and a half. how much money and wells, there's no line item for litigation. for jpmorgan it's coming down. for bank of america i see no improvement. >> legal cost 370 million this quarter. a year ago quarter 6 billion. that's down. >> it is going to continue. i wanted to see it over. i wanted to see, let me back up. i don't want the government involved that much with bank of america. i still feel the government is too much involved with bank of america. j.p. morgan know. wells no. >> the government is involved in all of these. >> to a degree. >> much more than 10 years ago for obvious rps. >> bank of america has to pay a big dividend. they have a lot of cap. they have to apply. this is a next year business. i saw what j.p. morgan did with the buck 76 and i said to myself wow, j.p. morgan is really starting to pay out. wells fargo is taking a bigger risk because they h

and we also like some of the other larger banks that we think are positioning themselves for better longer term growth such as bank of america. >> bank of america, goldman, i assume would be one that you would like as well because of its exposure to the capital markets? >> this quarter, i think goldman is longer positioned. the longer term story is a bit tricky with the global economic outlook still somewhat cloudy. goldman's going to do quite well. >> how much of this is predicated for the larger banks, not necessarily the goldman's of the world, but on higher interest rates. we know that the fed -- or we suspect anyway that the fed might take a little longer time after some weak data points before they start to raise rates. >> after waiting for several years it looks like we may wait some more. our outlook is not especially predicated on higher rates. although i will say i think that creates a risk for this group in terms of the consensus earnings outlook, for next year is calling for a rapid acceleration in earnings growth. >> where are the weak spots eric who do you -- are you watching? >> the weaker spots are among some

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it is tax day, when a, april 15 and it is also bank of america earnings day. lways, bank of america earnings make little sense on first read. $3.4 billion. what we are looking for his net interest margins. we want to see what is happening to consumer real estate. tom: in olivia -- in olivia's defense, every bank statement is different. take a memo for how jpmorgan puts out their headlines and earnings. they do it better. there is a headline about net charge-offs, 28%. we saw that someone from jpmorgan yesterday with a positive construction. michael moore, quick comments here it every bank the same or are they all unique? michael: they are very unique. and what bank of america is saying here is they have moved where they put their mortgage segment. tom: we are going to go to top headlines, but what you will you look for? michael: fixed income, like jpmorgan are up. how the net interests get squeezed. thanks just keep waiting for rates to rise and how much is it hurting them? and last are they have a huge settlement for countrywide and how it might look this quar

if elizabeth board wants to run, -- if elizabeth warren wants to run, she can use bank of america as bit a. bank of america promotes the ceo to have the chairman job when they have had issues with the fed. they have had for chief risk officers in the last eight years. last you, they had a $4 billion regulatory capital misstatement and what do they do? they promote the person to chairman. we intend to go to the bank of america meeting and say why did the ceo also get the chairman job? erik: so you asked that question directly? mike: ryan is the one who wanted the job. who can you ask that of? ideally, we would have other directors at bank of america who would answer the question. otherwise, it looks like an incestuous industry which is poster child for erik: bad government. is -- poster child for bad government. erik: is that what it is? mike: bank of america has come a long way improving earnings but in this case, promoting the ceo to chairman in the wake of the bad events over the last couple of years, that is a poster child -- stephanie: you don't think bank of america has gone out

take a look at shares from bank of america. its earnings report. >> intel's first quarter profit rose 3% in line with forecasts. revenue was flat and down 13% from the fourth quarter missing estimates. speaking on cnbc intel's cfo was more upbeat on the current quarter. >> our prediction for 2015 is the pc market will be down in the mid single digits. as i think about the longer term for the market we're planning for it to be more flat than a growth market. when we look at other areas of the business we still think we can grow the company. >> it rose 2% in after hours trade. up 3.6% at frankfurt. let's cross to denver. rick, good morning to you. thank you for joining us. so in trade today we're looking at over 3.5% gain but that's a surprise isn't it? overall the earnings were in line at best. >> well the stock has been a poor performer this year. there's bright spots but they're clearly treading water and personal computers. i'd say older technology but they're doing well with cloud data centers. they dominate that business and

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banks? >> i moved my mortgage out of bank of america recently. boring business when banks don't lend money as much anymore. betty: i agree. number three. the china conundrum. stocks in china soaring, the shanghai composite index at a seven-year high. an annual rate of 7%. new figures on output investment, and retail point to a slowdown. you have stocks at a seven-year high. economic growth is slowing down. it feels like a recession in china. what gives? >> this might be the same story. china is becoming a little bit more boring, but may be healthy from an economic standpoint as things slow down a little bit and the economy while slower may be becomes a little bit more open globally. maybe the next stage for china is going to be one the big behemoth companies alibaba 10 tencent, baidu start to expand internationally. betty: i thought it was interesting that 50% of the gdp growth came from consumption -- the services sector. the chinese love their luxury brands. i am getting really dinged. the gnocchi a--- -- nokia-alcatel deal. nokia agreed to buy

bank of america? i don't know kind of what it's been doing. you know they're still not getting that clean bill of health from the feds. bank of america is situation where if you are in it you should think why are you not in wells fargo. okay, dick in virginia. >> hi jim. happy easter. >> thank you. >> my question is about gilliad. the chart shows the top was at september at $117. it's now down to $98. i'm wondering if the other biotech horses biogen or celgen woechlt offer any more appreciation? do you think i should sell? >> it is my least favorite now because of that really difficult entrenched competition from abvi. i do think bioagain coming down and cel dn ds gene at $112. good way to start it. gilliad is history. people are worried about the competition. they have to do something major. they have to prove they can use that cash and give earnings power and growth. today we show the force of supply and demand take charge. this is what you have when there is too much supply and not enough demand. what a show. fresh and natural food is a grow

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>> let's hedge that with bank of america is the big reason for that. last year in the same quarter they actually took a big charge. they had easy comparables this quarter. if you take out bank of america, financials grew by 4.6% this quarter. much lower growth rate if you took out bank of america. that is better than some other sectors. discretionary with growth rate 6.9%. liz: talk about earnings winners you foresee? >> we see two big winners and losers thisser we picked to talk about. one is united airlines. lower oil prices is one reason. >> they will be a winner. >> they will be a winner. not just the oil prices. keep in mind united airlines is very conservative in increasing their capacity. their load factors at 84%. compared to some of their peers that is much higher. thanks to conservative approach increasing capacity they will be benefiting. >> you have paying of dividends. you picked carlisle group as winner. >> carlyle group is expected to be a winner. smart estimate above concensus. we expect private equity group to do really well so do other

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