Demystifying 1 Crucial Number

In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, financials analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson explain the financial metric: Net interest margin. The guys tell viewers why big banks like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have lower margins than others, like Capital One .

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