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The 'new normal' for Wall Street

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Investment bank revenues have been more or less flat for years, and it looks like they could stay that way for a while.

In a note Wednesday, JPMorgan’s Kian Abouhossein suggested the banks may have reached a “new normal” — and it’s right around the 2005-2006 revenue levels.

Abouhossein estimates that clean investment bank revenues — meaning equities, fixed income, and investment banking revenues, excluding writedowns and accounting adjustments — will total $136.8 billion in 2016.

He expects that will follow a total of $138.8 billion in 2015, and 2017 should be right in that ball park too.

By those estimates, it looks read more >>>

Source : BusinessInsider.Com