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steve2470

(37,481 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:46 PM Jul 2012

JPMorgan Chase profits fall 9 percent

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Source: Business Week

JPMorgan Chase says losses from a massive trading blunder in the bank's London have reached $5.8 billion and could go as high as $7 billion.

The bank Friday said it will be forced to restate its first-quarter results after it was discovered traders may have been trying to hide the losses from botched trades, The New York Times reported.

The bank said it lost $4.4 billion within the London office in the second quarter, up from the $2 billion loss it initially reported in May.

"The firm has recently discovered information that raises questions about the integrity of the trader marks and suggests that certain individuals may have been seeking to avoid showing the full amount of the losses in the portfolio during the first quarter," JPMorgan Chase said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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JPMorgan Chase profits fall 9 percent (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2012 OP
With 70 trillion in notional derivatives and PnL statements .... MindMover Jul 2012 #1
Short JPM stock then banned from Kos Jul 2012 #5
I do not play marbles with cheaters ..... MindMover Jul 2012 #6
Yet the stock bbinacan Jul 2012 #2
Like most everything else, manufactured to look good.... MindMover Jul 2012 #3
BUY!! lastlib Jul 2012 #4
"certain individuals may have been seeking to avoid showing the full amount" - Jamie Dimon, perhaps? wordpix Jul 2012 #7
Locking, sorry, this is a duplicate. Please continue discussion here: Rhiannon12866 Jul 2012 #8

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
1. With 70 trillion in notional derivatives and PnL statements ....
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:53 PM
Jul 2012

that are essentially made up from thin air and getting thinner ..... I will say it again ....

JPM is bankrupt .....

 

banned from Kos

(4,017 posts)
5. Short JPM stock then
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:04 PM
Jul 2012

you will lose your ass.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
6. I do not play marbles with cheaters .....
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:08 PM
Jul 2012

when all trading is done in milliseconds and it is rigged from the top thru to the bottom.....anyone can lose their ass.....and most of main street has already.....

bbinacan

(7,047 posts)
2. Yet the stock
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 07:08 PM
Jul 2012

was up 6%. I guess the restatement wasn't as bad as feared. Kind of like the increasingly declining restatements of economic data. Employment, GDP, etc.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
3. Like most everything else, manufactured to look good....
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 07:19 PM
Jul 2012

lastlib

(28,258 posts)
4. BUY!!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 09:03 PM
Jul 2012

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
7. "certain individuals may have been seeking to avoid showing the full amount" - Jamie Dimon, perhaps?
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:09 PM
Jul 2012

Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
8. Locking, sorry, this is a duplicate. Please continue discussion here:
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:38 PM
Jul 2012
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