Wells Fargo earnings slip, but mostly meet expectations

But cheap oil posed and still inflicts pain for banks at a time when the industry is struggling overall to make money due to extremely low interest rates.

While Looking at the Earnings Estimates of the company, The Average Earnings Estimate for the Current Fiscal quarter is measured as $1.01 by 31 analysts. Total loans increased 1.05% to $957.2 billion from the previous quarter.

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Berenberg has been a brokerage house following shares of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), so its rating change is noteworthy.

But low rates have been a boon for certain aspects of home lending.

Citigroup’s net income declined from $4.8 billion last year to $4 billion this year.

Citicorp revenues declined 3% to $16.7 billion on the back of a 6% decline in revenues from the GCB banking segment. They now own 3.75 billion shares or 1.46% less from 3.81 billion shares in 2015Q4. The decline came from its mortgage-servicing portfolio, where hedges on the direction of interest rates were less effective, and where the bank faced higher costs.

In China, second-quarter economic growth clocked in at 6.7%, unchanged from the first three months of 2016, but above economists’ forecast. NeighborWorks America and its network member Origin reported that NeighborhoodLIFT program with a $4.1 million commitment by Wells Fargo to help boost homeownership in Richland and Lexington counties. The share price is now 4.18 percent versus its SMA20, 1.18 percent versus its SMA50, and -2.21 percent versus its SMA200.

Citigroup took $100 million in credit losses related to energy, but was not forced to increase its loan loss reserves, Gerspach said.

Wells’ provisions for loan losses of US$1.1 billion more than tripled from the year-ago quarter, and were 49-percent higher than the first quarter.

Meyer, who like Mack came to Wells Fargo following the bank’s acquisition of Wachovia in 2008, leads FiNet as well as Wells Fargo’s clearing business, the Journal writes. 15169378 shares were traded on Wells Fargo & Company’s last session. Second-quarter noninterest income reflected higher net gains on debt securities, trust and investment fees, net gains from trading activities, lease income, card fees and service charges on deposit accounts. While real estate loans made up 8.8 percent of the bank’s commercial loans a year ago, they now accounted for 10.4 percent.

“Oil and gas portfolio performance during the quarter was generally consistent with our expectations”, said chief risk officer Mike Loughlin.