Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) Q2 earnings: Market-linked businesses drove 63% of revenue growth
Bank of America Corp reported a 27% rise in second-quarter profit, but a clean revenue bridge shows the beat leaned heavily on market-sensitive businesses. Market making, investment and brokerage services, and investment banking generated $2.61 billion, or 63%, of the bank’s $4.12 billion year-on-year revenue increase. Net interest income — the spread between what a bank earns on assets and pays for funding — supplied another 32%.
