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Apr 8, 2019, 12:00 PM GMT
#EarningsSeason

The Beginning of the Earnings Season for "Big Finance" and Some Serious Volatility Coming to the Markets, Starting This Week

JPMorgan Chase & CO

This is the first major US investment bank to report its earnings for the first quarter of 2019, due on Friday the 12th in the Pre-Market hours. Despite the rough start of 2019 for the US financial sector, owing mostly to the trade tensions between the US and China, the share price of the financial giant's stock has been rising because of Trump's protectionist policies at home.

The CEO of JPMorgan Jamie Dimon said in an interview for the CNN last Thursday, that Trump's tax cuts have added 3.7$ Billion to the banking institution's profits for last year. Even though the market remained relatively unmoved by the news from last week, it remains to be seen whether the positive effect from the tax cuts program in the US had been prevalent in 2019 as well.

The consensus Earnings Per Share Forecast is sitting at 2.34$ per share, which is slightly less than the 2.37$ EPS, that were reported for the same period last year. Even so, if there are no surprises and the firm reports EPS that meet the market analysts` forecasts that would be considered as positive news for the banking institution, which finished Q4 of 2018 with by registering a 1.98$ EPS as opposed to the then forecasted 2.2$ EPS. Even with this disappointment for the shareholders of the company, the stock price rose with 0.55% during the daily trading session, following the release of the news.

Wells Fargo & Company

The other financial services giant that is scheduled to report earnings next Friday will be doing so amidst a series of internal shocks and calamities, that are expected to further amplify the volatility affecting the company's share price fluctuations.

On the 29th of March, the CEO of Wells Fargo Tim Sloan announced his decision to step down from the position, following the recent series of scandals concerning the company's latest market misbehaviours, which shattered the firm's public image.

The forecast is for $1.08 EPS to be reported on Friday, which would measure a decrease of 0.13 cents compared to the results for Q4 of 2018. Furthermore, such results would register a 0.4 cents drop compared to the EPS for the same period last year, both of which would exemplify the company's financial woes.