rates are goingup. most of us consider it a healthy normalization and going back to more of a free market when tt come asset pricing and interest rates. to me, overall it g is ad thing particularly for the economy. i dora exptes will continue to go up. >> on the media call dimen highlighted specific risks including exit, trade and international tensions. he calle the head winds geopolitical issues bursting all over the place but said he didn't think they would derail the u.s. economy. both citi and wells fargo have ocbeensed on their own plans to bring down expenses but also shhroughng their own ear earnings that the rising interest rate environment is benefitting their bottom line. rising interest rates can help banks. there is a point in the cycle where banks no longer benef when consumers and businesseak stopg out as many loans as they were before. analysts and investors don't see evidence of that quite yet, at least based on the reports from the first three major u.s. banks to share their third quar