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Bank stocks in November are a net-interest-margin story with a credit tail
A bank screen in a high-rate environment is really a deposit-beta question: how fast funding costs reprice against assets. Where the beta is high, the margin compresses even with rates flat.
The credit tail is the second leg. Provisions have been benign because employment has been, and both are cyclical in the same direction.
Neither input is hidden. Both are quarterly. The screen is a spread read, not a narrative one.
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