May 29, 2019 / 07:30PM GMT
John Eamon McDonald - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division - Former Senior Analyst
Okay. We're ready to get started. Thanks very much, everyone. We're very happy to have Brian Moynihan from Bank of America join us again. Brian, thanks for coming this year, appreciate it. I thought we'd start off talking about the macro environment. So investors have late cycle concerns, got the flat curve, potential trade war, got a room that's only 1/3 full. That's been the case for the bank presentations. That's nothing specific to Bank of America. But again, bank investors seem to be struggling with kind of this late cycle mentality. So what are you seeing in terms of the macro? What's your view on global growth, and kind of the health of the U.S. economy?
Questions and Answers:
Brian Thomas Moynihan - Bank of America Corporation - Chairman & CEOSo I think if you start from the estimates the team has out there for growth, they had come down, and then they pushed them back up based on the first quarter and some of the underlying trends. And so