Tag Archives: JP Morgan Chase

U.S. Companies Brace for an Exit From the Euro by Greece

THE NEW YORK TIMES Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the euro zone.   Bank of America Merrill Lynch has looked into filling trucks with cash and sending them over the Greek border [...]

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No one marching for the banks

Two days before President Barack Obama called on Wall Street titans to ask their lobbyists to stand down in the fight over financial regulation reforms, JP Morgan mobilized its entire New York workforce to join the battle. On Tuesday, it dispatched an e-mail on the reform package the Senate is considering to 30,000 employees, noting [...]

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Now that Obama has Trashed the Health Care Industry, Is Wall Street Next?

For you non-technical market observers, this is what the Dow Jones Industrial Averages look like in chart form.  This is the type of price action that stock traders and investors dream about. Over the course of the last couple of weeks we have been hearing more and more chatter among the same people who have just [...]

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Wall Street Leaves Pakistan’s Financial Capital

By:  TOM WRIGHT Three Wall Street banks have abandoned their brokerage operations in Pakistan amid the nation’s bleak economic situation. Citigroup’s Citibank shuttered its equity research office in Karachi, the nation’s financial capital, in March. Credit Suisse Group closed its research operations in the same city earlier this year. That follows JPMorgan Chase’s decision in [...]

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