ML-Implode News - Are Wall Street Banks in Trouble? You'd Never Know from the Headlines

One would never know by these headlines that big bank earnings were actually down year over year -- and in some cases, down dramatically. JPMorgan Chase earned $6.2 billion in the second quarter of 2016 versus $6.29 billion in the second quarter of 2015.
The news was far worse at Citigroup, despite the rosy headline at CNBC. Citigroup's second quarter profit fell 17.5 percent year over year, to $4 billion from $4.85 billion in the second quarter of 2015. Its revenues were the lowest in 14 years according to S&P Capital IQ.
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Now news of jobs cuts is spilling out with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Bank of America will make "$5 billion in annual cost cuts by 2018 as part of its strategy to deal with persistently low interest rates that are eating away at lenders' profitability."

The New York Post is calling job cuts at Goldman Sachs the worst since the financial crisis in 2008. Fortune's Stephen Gandel reported two days ago that Goldman had slashed a whopping "1,700 positions in the past three months."

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Are Wall Street Banks in Trouble? You'd Never Know from the Headlines