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...Listening to a recent FT Behind the Money podcast about JPMorgan Chase, however, made me wonder if banks might not be the most interesting and perhaps even the most extreme example of that dynamic....
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...It’s from JPMorgan analysts Tien-tsin Huang et al, who cover IT services at the bank....
...In the second quarter of this year, growth in card loans at JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America were 0 per cent, -5 per cent, and -10 per cent, respectively....
...By the time of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, there remained two US tri-party agents: JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Who ultimately wins the stand-off — Mr Dimon et al or the market — will hang in part on how duty-bound JP feels to stand by its pledge....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...(Financial Times)(Wall Street Journal)(Bloomberg)(FastFT) Moody’s may downgrade biggest US banks, saying bailouts less likely in future: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo could...
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...The frantic effort by Goldman et al to quell public outrage over their industry’s compensation practices has successfully brought the top three: Blankfein, Citi’s Vikram Pandit and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon...
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...The picture is much more subtle and insidious than the WSJ and Andrew Cuomo et al make out....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Inspired by Mr Paulson et al, I have been hard at work compiling a rot analysis of business talk, looking at phrases that mean just the opposite of what they pretend to mean....
...RBS et al are willing to pay €39 per share, but they want the sale of LaSalle to Bank of America called off. - In further ‘toys out of prams’ news, JPMorgan Chase is threatening to move thousands of employees...
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