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Wells Fargo profit falls as the bank sets aside funds for bad loans, company’s shares drop 3%
Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo said Friday that second-quarter profit declined 48% from a year earlier as the firm set aside funds for bad loans and was stung by declines in its equity holdings. Here are the numbers: Earnings per share: 74 cents, including an 8 cent per share […]
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Dimon rips Fed stress test as ‘terrible way to run’ financial system after his bank halts buybacks
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, speaking at the Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 6th, 2018. Janvhi Bhojwani | CNBC JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon didn’t mince words when it came to the regulatory process that forced his bank to suspend its stock buybacks. Asked by veteran banking analyst Betsy […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Conagra Brands and more
Pedestrians pass in front of a JPMorgan & Chase bank branch automated teller machine (ATM) kiosk in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. JPMorgan Chase – Shares of JPMorgan Chase sunk 3.49% and hit a 52-week low after the bank reported quarterly […]
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JPMorgan Chase earnings fell 28% after building reserves for bad loans, bank suspends buybanks
JPMorgan Chase said Thursday that second-quarter profit slumped as the bank built reserves for bad loans by $428 million and suspended share buybacks. The actions reflect Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon’s increasingly cautious stance. “The U.S. economy continues to grow and both the job market and consumer spending, and their ability to spend, remain healthy,” […]
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Morgan Stanley misses analysts’ profit expectations on worse-than-expected investment banking
James Gorman, chairman and chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley posted results on Thursday below analysts’ expectations for second quarter profit and revenue on weaker-than-expected investment banking revenue. Here are the numbers: […]
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Goldman Sachs hires Alphabet tech incubator CEO Jared Cohen for new innovation group
Jared Cohen Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has hired another senior executive from the technology sector. The investment bank is adding Alphabet’s Jared Cohen, a protege of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and founder of Jigsaw, an incubator at the tech giant, to help start a new innovation group, Solomon said […]
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Family offices have become a $6 trillion powerhouse in investing—and deal-making
The post-pandemic wealth boom has sparked an explosion in family offices, creating a new gold rush among Wall Street firms, private equity funds and investment advisors to manage the fortunes of the world’s richest families. Family offices now manage more than $6 trillion in wealth, according to some estimates, surpassing the estimated $4 trillion managed […]
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Klarna valuation plunges 85% to $6.7 billion as ‘buy now, pay later’ hype fades
Currently, most buy now, pay later services don’t impact a person’s credit score. That’s now set to change in the U.K. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Klarna saw its valuation slashed by 85% in a new financing round announced Monday, reflecting grim investor sentiment surrounding high-growth tech stocks and “buy now, pay later” […]
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How to trade mounting recession risks, according to Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and more
After a beaten-down first half for stocks that ranked among the worst in decades, investors are now bracing for continued volatility. A growing chorus of recession warnings have emerged on Wall Street as market watchers weigh the likelihood that an aggressive rate hike cycle by the Federal Reserve will curtail growth. As it stands, the […]
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Goldman slashes GDP forecast for the second quarter to just barely above water
A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. logo hangs on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amid heightened concerns that a recession is looming, Goldman Sachs economists expect that the U.S. economy barely grew in the second quarter. The […]
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