Wells Fargo earnings top expectations weeks after CEO departs

Wells Fargo, the biggest U.S. bank originator of mortgages, had its best first quarter in five years without much help from its home-loan business. Look for that to change next quarter, based on the mortgage pipeline Wells Fargo reported. The San Francisco bank said it had $32 billion of unclosed first-lien mortgages that will go on its books in the current quarter, compared with $24 billion it reported for the same period a year earlier.