There’s a hidden way to get detailed financial data on publicly traded U.S. banks days before the companies release their earnings. The information is accurate, free, and -- most important -- totally legal.

The source is the federal government, which publishes snapshots of banks’ financial pictures, known as call reports, on a hard-to-find website…

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Independent research by the University of Notre Dame shows that bank call reports have a material effect on U.S. equity markets. Conclusions also state that the effect increases as asset size decreases, indicating that small and medium-sized banks are quietly releasing a flood of mandatory but market-moving information to the public with little to no fanfare.…

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