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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Bet on Big Banks to Bounce Back

FBR Capital likes PNC, JPMorgan, U.S. Bancorp and Bank of America.

BANK EARNINGS SEASON KICKS off with JPMorgan Chase's (ticker: JPM) results on July 15.

Given the year-to-date underperformance of the largest six banks compared to the regional banks, we favor the big banks into second-quarter earnings as we expect visibility into the impacts of the financial-reform bill will improve, which should relieve some of the uncertainty that has weighed on these stocks.

As a result, we are upgrading U.S. Bancorp (USB) to Outperform from Market Perform, and we favor PNC Financial Services (PNC), JPMorgan, U.S. Bancorp and Bank of America (BAC) in that order.
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source: wsj

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