JPMorgan Chase & Company
NYSE: JPM
$245.18
-$0.13 (-0.1%)
Closing Price on November 18, 2024
JPM Articles
Citigroup (C) is not going to make it, at least not an an independent company. The FT has reported that the head of Goldman Sachs (GS) called Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit to discuss a merger. Goldman...
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This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down. What is interesting is that the financial stocks are the most leveraged to this, yet oddly enough most stocks...
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No matter where economists look there is no evidence that a recession in the US, EU, and Asia is doing anything but deepening. The stock markets are the least of it. Some of the indexes in the...
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Perhaps it is because this is an election year, but everyone is going around asking "Are we better off than we used to be?" It is not just the baby-kissing politicians. People are being polled to...
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Analysts often as about "earnings quality". How accurate are quarterly numbers? Are they being "managed" to make a company’s fortunes appear better than they actually are? The question has come up...
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Bank earnings were hit hard this week. Even if the results at Citigroup (C), Merrill Lynch (MER), and JP Morgan (JPM) did not drive the credit system into insolvency, each company had forecasts which...
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Henry Paulson seems like a very large and old Eagle Scout. He would never mislead, at least not on purpose. He gave the impression as he announced that Treasury would dump $250 billion into nine...
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According to Reuters, Swiss banks are getting large amounts of capital to fight the global credit crisis. Reuters reports that AIG (AIG) is lobbying to loosen government oversight rules. Reuters...
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It is as if the Paulson bank bailout and Monday’s 11% run up in the market never happened. The S&P closed today at 907.84, which is within three points of where it closed last Friday. In...
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Good deeds should be their own rewards, but in the stock market that it not entirely true. Good earnings, especially in a harsh world, are supposed to yield shareholders something. In the perverse...
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JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has just released earnings and Jamie Dimon is showing he is a better manager even than the most positive reviews have given him over the years. The banking giant made...
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One size fits all. That is the reasoning behind Treasury’s plan to invest money in a number of large banks by purchasing preferred shares. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan (JPM) and Lloyd Blankfein of...
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According to Reuters, the Treasury will make $250 billion directly into banks. Ciitgroup (C) and JPMorgan (JPM) would get $26 billion each. Merrill Lynch (MER) and Bank of America (BAC) would each...
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A big up day in the market, say 4% or 5%, is not a rally, at least not any more. The DJIA has proved that it can move 1,000 points from bottom to top or top to bottom in one trading session. If...
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Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is being taken to the cleaners this morning. Shares closed down sharply yesterday at $23.77 after closing at $32.22 just the day before. Bank of America raised...
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