JP Morgan Cutting 3,000 Investment Banking Jobs
JPMorgan Chase & Co is cutting 10 percent of its investment banking staff -- about 3,000 jobs -- as the economic slowdown starts to bite into its earn...
JPMorgan Chase & Co is cutting 10 percent of its investment banking staff -- about 3,000 jobs -- as the economic slowdown starts to bite into its earn...
Wall Street Journal | ROBIN SIDEL | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. launched an ambitious plan Friday to modify the terms of $70 billion in mortgages for borrowers who are behind on their paymen...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
Want to know where $40 billion of your taxpayer-financed bailout for bankers is going? Into the pockets of their executives. And that evidence comes s...
ABC News | BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service posted a $100,000 reward late Wednesday for information about a flurry of threatening letters sent to JP Morgan Cha...
Reuters | Keith Coffman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business
DENVER, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Ten branches of Chase (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) bank in Colorado and Oklahoma received threatening let...
Neil Grossman | Posted 09.28.2008 | Business
JPMorgan ends up with the good part of Wamu for a song -- the taxpayer ends up with "Toxic Waste." Seems to me like a great deal for the taxpayer.
Boston.com | H.D.S. Greenway | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business
But I am thinking of a financial crisis 101 years ago, the "Panic of 1907," as it was called. In late October of that year, the greatest banker of hi...
New York Times | Posted 08.29.2008 | Business
Hot off his record-shattering eight-gold-medal Olympics appearance in Beijing, Michael Phelps has been making the rounds, talking about his accomplish...
Max Keiser | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business
By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
In an interview with Charlie Rose, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, in his engaging way, asked his audience a seemingly innocuous question: "Who among you is upset with $4 plus gasoline?"
Kevin Phillips | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business
Is Bernanke ready for a new round of 1932-style talk about abolishing the Fed or impeaching its leaders? Because at least three aspects of his Fed chairmanship have generated major controversy.
AP | MADLEN READ and JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Bear Stearns shareholders have approved JPMorgan Chase's buyout, ending the saga of the 85-year-old pillar of Wall Street that crumbl...
New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Even in the worst of times, Jamie Dimon keeps sprinting ahead in his winning streak. Although Dimon said his JPMorgan Chase's profit plunged 50 perce...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s profit fell 50 percent in the first quarter after the bank took a provision of $5.1 billion to strengthen its ...
Wall Street Journal | Robin Sidel | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. pulled a number of senior managers from Bear Stearns Cos. into the upper ranks of its investment bank, representing the latest...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Bush administration on Thursday defended the decision to rescue Bear Stearns amid que...
Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
One big Bear Stearns shareholder is no longer hallucinating about a higher JP Morgan bid for the firm: Chairman Jimmy Cayne, a Wall Street legend and one of the few men most responsible for Bear's collapse.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Between toys that might kill our children, a food safety system that isn't working, airlines that might be flying unsafe airplanes, and our entire financial system, it's clear something isn't working.
Alec Baldwin | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
Is it now true that the only way the US can maintain its standard of living is by exporting bogus wars and bad debt to foreign countries?
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The economy is listing. So it must be time to bail. While there is little enthusiasm for government bailouts in general, voters ar...
Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
Now that JPMorganChase has raised its bid for Bear Stearns, angry shareholders seemed to have calmed down and Wall Street isn't as worried that the in...
New York Observer | Tom Acitelli | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
"I think that one of the things in this crisis all along has been it's like a mystery novel," David Wessel, the economics editor for The Wall Street J...
Motley Fool | Rick Aristotle Munarriz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
Yesterday's fivefold increase in JPMorgan's (NYSE: JPM) bidding price for the Al Capone vault that Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) has become is as shocking...
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s higher offer for Bear Stearns on Monday gave the investment bank control of nearly 40 percent of its ailing ri...
New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business
JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort ...
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Reuters | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business