Wikimedia CommonsWe would caution that this was expected, but it appears that Jamie Dimon will keep his dual corporate governance roles as chairman and as chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.…
Wikimedia CommonsTuesday will mark the do or die date for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) shareholders and corporate governance issues. The effort to split the role of chairman and chief executive officer…
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) investors feel cheated. The bank has stopped issuing updates on voting results from the bank’s proxy. This will leave investors in the dark as they watch…
ThinkstockThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported an increase of 2.6 points in its small business optimism index, up from 89.5 in March to 92.1 in April. The NFIB noted that…
ThinkstockDodd-Frank, the Volcker Rule, and other bank regulations have been ongoing and increasing in the years after the great recession. Now we have a new communication from the Federal Reserve calling for the top…
Wikimedia CommonsThe heat remains on Jamie Dimon to split his role as chairman and as chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). Investors might want to tread carefully here. Jamie…
ThinkstockIf you have watched the U.S. stock market rally in 2013, you might think that all the austerity and budget woes in Europe have passed. It turns out that Europeans themselves do not agree.…
ThinkstockThe saying is that all’s fair in love and war. Well, this cannot be love, so it must be war. The Financial Times this morning is citing “two people familiar with the situation” who…
Wikimedia CommonsFollowing the financial crisis of 2008, the U.S. Treasury was authorized to commit up to $700 billion to a Troubled Asset Relief Program — TARP — in an effort to stop the bleeding…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking this morning to bankers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His speech is called “Monitoring the Financial System,” but it really involves the…
ThinkstockCharles Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, gave a speech on Thursday afternoon discussing how to end the “Too Big To Fail” conundrum of the big banks at…
Can you imagine lending the government your money for a period of thirty years for less than 3.0% interest per year. That is exactly what happened in the latest Treasury bond auction that went…
ThinkstockThe Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted on Thursday to maintain the current economic stimulus plans. This is its version of quantitative easing, similar to what is being seen in the United States…
ThinkstockThe term high frequency trading (HFT) might sound like to millions or billions of dollars per year in trading profits to many Wall Street trading professionals and hedge fund managers. To many Main Street…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has reported that consumer credit in March rose by only $8.0 billion. Bloomberg was calling for consumer credit to rise by $15 billion, but today’s Fed report was worse than all…