Banks

• Goldman Sachs tops profit estimates as equities, asset and wealth management outperform - Trading desks across Wall Street have benefited in the last year as Trump's policies have roiled markets for bonds, currencies, commodities and stocks.
• Under threat from Trump, Wall Street banks wager they can fend off credit card price controls - Five days after Trump's demand to cap credit card rates, bankers and lobbyists told CNBC they have yet to receive any formal or written guidance on the policy.
• Sen. Warren says Trump called her to work on credit card interest rate caps - Republicans on Capitol Hill have lightly thrown cold water on capping credit card interest at 10%.
• Bank of America is set to report fourth-quarter earnings – here's what to expect - Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, has been a beneficiary of the industry's recent tailwinds.
• Trump attacks Powell again amid Fed independence fears: 'Incompetent' or 'crooked' - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon defended the Fed's independence amid the probe of Powell by Trump's DOJ, echoing Republicans' criticisms.
• JPMorgan Chase says banks could fight Trump credit card rate cap: 'Everything's on the table' - Banks say a proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates would result in fewer credit card accounts for Americans and a hit to the U.S. economy.
• JPMorgan Chase tops estimates as trading revenue exceeds expectations - JPMorgan will give investors a view into how consumers and corporations fared toward the end of last year and issue guidance on how 2026 may develop.
• Trump's credit card rate cap plan has unclear path, 'devastating' risks, bank insiders say - A 10% rate cap would make large swaths of the credit card industry unprofitable, especially tied to customers with less-than-ideal credit, banks say.
• JPMorgan forms special advisory group to share some of bank's 'secret sauce' with clients - They're calling the initiative the "Special Advisory Services," which launches Monday, with Liz Myers, who also serves as global chair of investment banking, at the helm.
• Here are 5 key events that drove the stock market last week - Stocks finished higher Friday, lifted by the volatile artificial intelligence trade, leading the market to the upside for the week.