Coming Week: Banks on Parade

The focus on financials will heat up next week, as four of the country's biggest banks report earnings and provide some color on their expectations for the remainder of the year.

Goldman Sachs (GS Quote) will kick off the bank earnings rollercoaster on Tuesday, followed by JPMorgan Chase (JPM Quote) on Thursday and Bank of America (BAC Quote) and Citigroup (C Quote) on Friday.

While it's clear that banks are still suffering through the deep recession, there's no clear consensus on where their bottom-line figures stand. For instance, the range of analyst expectations for Citi's second-quarter loss per share range from 76 cents to 5 cents, and JPMorgan per-share estimates range from a loss of 23 cents to a profit of 27 cents. ...