JPMorgan profit beats estimates on investment banking gains
Filed under: Company News, Earnings
Not to be outdone by Wall Street rival Goldman Sachs (GS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) said revenues set a record in the second quarter and profit surged 36 percent, eclipsing analysts' estimates.Powered by huge gains in its investment bank, JPMorgan posted profits of $2.7 billion, or 28 cents a share, compared with $2 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting net income of 5 cents a share. Earnings would have been 27 cents a share higher if not for the cost of repaying the $25 billion investment it received from the government's financial rescue program.
As with Goldman Sachs, it appears fixed-income trading contributed mightily to JPMorgan's results, adding $4.9 billion to revenues, a 110 percent increase from a year ago. And like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan significantly boosted the risks it took to achieve those results. Its value at risk surged. The figure, designed to measure how much a firm's traders stood to lose in a single day, surged 79 percent to $267 million.
Other divisions didn't fare so well. JPMorgan reported profit from its retail banking operation nearly disappeared, falling 97 percent, while its credit cards business swung to a $672 million loss, compared with earnings of $250 million a year ago.



























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7-16-2009 @ 9:12AM
Deela said...
JP Morgan; AIG; Sachs; Bank of America......ALL assets PURCHASED IN MARCH 2009, OWNED and Managed by Federal Reserve/Obama under the government ran/owned enitty known as BLACKROCK MANAGMENT....Now the BIGGEST asset management government ran IN THE WORLD.
AKA.....BANK OF OBAMA.
We have officially become a One World Bank.
Obama = Closet Commie.
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7-16-2009 @ 9:50AM
jeff said...
Lets see JP Morgan and Chase made profits and they also are running the FED fund distribution and are owners of the FED!! This shows why the FED should be audited then replaced by an elected board which will pass strong laws governing the Banks and financial sectors instead of causing a depression so the BIG BANKS can get richer!! GET RID OF THE FED!! If banks continue to not loan money to qualified buyers and their high interest rates while paying little for CD's then nationalize the Banks too!!
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7-16-2009 @ 9:54AM
tom Williams said...
Accretable Yields Is "the difference between the value of the loans on the banks' balance sheets and the cash flow they're expected to produce," Note the key word here: "expected." To understand just how absurd this actually is, let's take a close look at JPMorgan Chase - which alone reportedly stands to reap as much as $29 billion in windfall income. It started when JPMorgan literally bought WaMu from the dumpster (technically acting as something called "the receiver") last year for $1.9 billion, and was allowed to mark the toxic debt that came with it down to "fair value" - which was 25% less than the $118.2 billion it was officially carried on the books for, orĀ $88.65 billion. But now, the bank says that those same debts may appreciate by some $29.1 billion over the life of the loans. That's before taxes and expenses, of course.
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7-16-2009 @ 10:10AM
sixkillerforhire said...
i am experiencing deja vu, last year it was oil companies with record profits. this year its banks, which is odd because i heard something about a bank and credit crisis. god i wish we would have a great depression again so wall street bankers,brokers and traders blow their brains out.
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7-16-2009 @ 10:35AM
dan said...
Chase is a SCAM. They do not do any loan modifications. They are stealing your money !! Donot bank with chase
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7-16-2009 @ 6:13PM
John said...
Their 0.75 interest rate on savings accounts ain't so great either.
7-16-2009 @ 10:34AM
Deela said...
How come no one is investigating BlackRock Management, formed in March 2009, BY Obama and the Fed for PROFITABLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST in Obama's purchasing of AIG assets, GM, numerous failing banks' assets, Sachs, Merrill Lynch, etc., and putting them into this psuedo-GOVERNMENT OWNED entity that is costing taxpayers? Anyone?
I thought a president's job was executive issues; not playing the game of MONOPOLY with taxpayers' money to get rich and powerful.
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7-16-2009 @ 1:08PM
howard said...
Does any one believe this?
Do I smell cooked books?
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7-16-2009 @ 1:21PM
brian Nolan said...
PROFIT??????????? did they payback the 25 big ones that the government gave them.
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7-16-2009 @ 11:31AM
ajgorm said...
Someone cut the trickle line there is no money trickling from the
pipe. Trickle down economics went to financials to boost their
earnings. Trickle down economics will be the end of a fools comment
that it will take two years to get here THE WELL IS DRY fools. They
Do not want to lose money to the middle class the banks live in a
world
by themselves. Surround the banks and do not let them out to feed
that
should get them to free up some liquidity our way. The banks will
need to weather the storm by themselves the fed will flood them with
bail outs while cutting their trickle line from us to pay their debt.
We will never inflate back to cover the cost or I will it my hat.
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7-16-2009 @ 12:50PM
DrBryanOblivion said...
You mean politcal insiders are profitting from taxpayer funded bailouts? tell me its not true! Obama and his many Goldman Sachs cabinet members would never do that.
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7-16-2009 @ 12:55PM
Iridium said...
It is easy to take on more risk when you control how the game is played. You know you won't lose.
Goldman and Chase engineered the spring stock rally. There wasn't any real data to support it and they made record profits from the rally. It is all BS phantom profit. Money made from trading money.
The real business of being a bank lost 97% revenue and the credit division lost 3/4s of a billion dollars. But BS invesment manipulation pulled in record profits.
Great country we have here.
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7-16-2009 @ 1:49PM
Kayleen said...
Chase did not help. I made arrangments with a new van. I am self employed and when the economy tokk a turn fot the worse, I needed help. Needless to say, they took it. I hired a lawyer to help. I had what they wanted but they said they did not want me as a customer. Glad they gat help.
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7-16-2009 @ 2:35PM
Grumpy said...
Remember someone got caught for theft of a "trading progarm" that is powerful enough in the right hands to manipulate markets? Gee, I wonder who uses that, only honest people? Right!
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7-16-2009 @ 2:28PM
Danilo said...
How much richer does anyone think Obama has gotten with his bail out of banks and corporations. By the way, what does JP Morgan do that it made 2.7 billion dollars this last quarter. Where did all those billions come from with the present U.S. and global economy the way it is? Sounds to me just another day with business, "cooking numbers."
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7-16-2009 @ 2:47PM
Rock Fossil said...
Everyone please read, "The Creature from Jekyll Island", subtitle: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve System."
This book written in 1992 by G.E. Griffin is a historically documented investigative journal into the scam that is our fractional banking system and how the world banks pulled it off. Simply amazing and very easy to read. Everything G.E. predicted has come true, easily authenticating the material within its bindings!!!
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7-16-2009 @ 3:02PM
J.P. Organ said...
Rock Fossil- It is exactly as you say!!!!! This book should be hailed as the next bible!!!
7-16-2009 @ 3:34PM
jmgair said...
When do you think BLACKROCK management & the Federal reseve will ever be audited ?? Answer, NEVER !! Because Obama controls both of them and if they were to be audited then the fraud that Obama really is would be exposed. How is that ' Hope & Change " thing going for you America ?? The USA is now history and may never recover from the actions of those who are now in power.
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7-16-2009 @ 4:33PM
lmc3959 said...
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
7-16-2009 @ 3:38PM
rip300rog said...
I'm not surprised that the two banks selected by our Govt to prosper are prospering. Curious, I have my mortage thru WaMu, now Chase, and suddenly this spring my escrow account went deep into the negative and I had to pay more or accept a higher monthly payment. This is after a ten year run with virtually no change in my escrow payment. Now it is 40% higher due to a spike in insurance coverage. This sure seemed rather suspicious to me so I started shopping for new insurance. Have any of you experienced a escrow spike from WaMu (Chase)?
And I tried to take advantage of re-finance offers last spring when rates were down and the govt was making noise about helping out homeowners underwater on their equity. I tried calling to get started on a refinance and I could only talk to customer service in India that gave me a scripted reply that led to no where. I would call again and again, and always it was India and always the same script, and nothing more.
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