Bank of America CEO: Fewer People Will Work in Banking as Artificial Intelligence Takes Over — WSJ

By Alexander Saeedy Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan believes the banking industry will employ fewer people over time as machine learning and artificial intelligence take over how banks process payments and manage client finances. Even though Bank of America shrank its retail business staff from around 100,000 employees to 60,000 over the last decade, Moynihan said that consumer deposits have grown by some $500 billion. The volume of transactions processed through the bank is also “lightyears bigger, he said. Were basically running on a neutral headcount, Moynihan said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. The expense base we run the whole company on today, around $64 billion, is about the same as it was in 2015. While human workers will likely contribute less and less to each new dollar of revenue, Moynihan said the remaining employees will be paid a lot more than previous generations since they will be

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Buy Airbus Stock, Analyst Says. Boeing Is One Reason Why. — Barrons.com

Airbus stock caught an upgrade to Buy. Boeing’s recent struggles are a factor in the improved outlook. On Tuesday, RBC analyst Ken Herbert upgraded shares of Airbus to Buy from Hold. His target for the price went to EUR192 ($208) from EUR145 ($157). Airbus stock was up 2% in overseas trading at EUR166.50 a share, leaving shares up about 19% so far this year and up about 43% over the past 12 months. “We believe the recent positive shift in sentiment has room to run as recent narrowbody share gains could expand further and investor confidence in the mid-decade targets improves,” wrote Herbert. Narrow-body planes are single-aisle jets such as the A320 and 737 MAX family of aircraft. The positive sentiment shift is the one from Boeing to Airbus as Boeing struggles through more problems with its MAX jets. The Jan. 5 midair blowout of an emergency-door plug on a

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