Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'JP Morgan'
'The largest bank failure in American history'
Another day, another bank failure. That almost seems to be the pattern in US financial markets at the moment. Yesterday the nation's 6th largest bank, Washington Mutual, was taken over by government regulators and sold to JP Morgan. The 119...
And then there were none
20 years of investment banking as an independent activity came to an end on Wall Street last night. Bear Stearns was the first to go in March, rescued by JPMorgan. Last week Lehman failed, and Merrill Lynch sold itself to...
US housing 'terrible'
When a leading banker says things look 'terrible', one know they must be really bad. Jamie Dimon is CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the only major US bank not to take write-downs on its housing loans to date. He described...
Financial players increase their bets on crude
Financial investors are already quite disruptive in crude oil markets. And their influence is set to grow this year. That’s the message from surveys by Barclays Global Investors and JP Morgan. $120bn is now invested in commodities as a...
Stress-testing the global financial system
Yesterday’s "swings in financial derivative prices were so extreme that they implied scenarios in which the core of the global liquidity system suffers a serious assault", according to JP Morgan, the investment bank. Watch out, if current US sub-prime mortgage...
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