A few hours after a Fitch downgrade, S&P said its outlook for JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) has gone from “Stable” to “Negative” in the wake of a $2 billion loss on a…
Douglas A. McIntyre In the midst of calls for JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon to step down, and new scrutiny over a $2 billion trading loss by agencies in the US and UK, Fitch…
Douglas A. McIntyre The major US stock indexes opened significantly lower this morning as investors reacted to the surprise loss of $2 billion by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) disclosed by the bank’s CEO…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has done some severe damage to its image as the best risk manager of the large banks, and this damage may easily carry over into…
At a speech to a group of Texas bankers, Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher was asked to comment on the news of the $2 billion trading loss reported by JPMorgan Chase…
Paul Ausick These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Reiterated Buy and $39 target at Argus. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:…
The front page of almost every news and financial paper or website carried that story of JP Morgan’s (NYSE: JPM) $2 billion trading loss. As MarketWatch described it, “The losses stemmed from trades…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook’s initial public offering is already oversubscribed. (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) books a $2 billion trading loss, and the figure could rise by another $1 billion. (Reuters) China’s industrial production and…
In a hastily called conference call, JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon explained that one of the bank’s divisions would have an $800 million trading loss based on a bad investments in synthetic…
Douglas A. McIntyre Coalition talks in Greece are unlikely to create a new government, raising the chance Greece could leave the eurozone. (Reuters) GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will launch a takeover of Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ:…
France and Greece are not the only nations in which the forces of austerity suffered a setback. The party of Angela Merkel, the champion of government cost cuts across Europe, gave up ground in local…
Barclays, the UK based bank, has decided to move into the US online bank business. The move is a mystery given the competition from American banks, brokers, and financial advisors. Barclays believes…
The financial sector was the best performing index out of the S&P 500 during the first quarter. That was when investors were decoupling from the woes of Europe. With European bank shares…
There are rumors that the Facebook “roadshow” to present the company’s prospects to investors will begin this week and that the initial public offering of the social network will come before month’s…
The DJIA reached the level where it last was at the end of 2007, the year when the index peaked. At the close, the Dow was 13,279.32. Its all-time high of 14,164.53…
