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JPM Halts Share Repurchase Program

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Remember when Jamie Dimon showed the Fed who's boss and preannounced it was starting a share repurchase program? Turns out the Chairsatan will have the final laugh:

  • DIMON SAYS JPM IS SUSPENDING SHARE REPURCHASES
  • DIMON SAYS SUSPENDING REPURCHASE PROGRAM ISN'T RELATED TO LOSS
  • DIMON SAYS SUSPENDING REPURCHASE PROGRAM ISN'T RELATED TO LOSS
  • JPM'S DIMON SAYS THERE'S UNREALIZED $8B IN PROFIT FROM CIO
  • JPM'S DIMON: DOESN'T SEE INVESTIGATION TO UNVEIL BIG SUPRISES
  • DIMON SAYS LOSS IS AN ISOLATED EVENT

And the joke of the day:

  • DIMON SAYS FORTRESS BALANCE SHEET REMAINS

But at least Bank of America will be announcing a dividend any minute now. And so the hits just keep on coming.




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Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:46 | Link to Comment ZeroPower
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Tempest in a teapot

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:47 | Link to Comment rajat_bhatia
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Lol, all the money gone into Fucking Bullshit $FB?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:15 | Link to Comment AlaricBalth
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It would be interesting to find out if JPM's unrealized $8bn gain (not profit) is the result of a Level 3 asset, where the fair value is based on one of their internal models, or if is is based on a Level 1 or 2 asset which is priced on relative market forces and is more transparent.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:59 | Link to Comment strannick
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Where have i heard Dimons comments before? Oh yeah, spring 2008 from Bear Sternes. 'once you have to start declaring your solvent, your days are numbered'

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 14:04 | Link to Comment ndotken
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Seems to me that the recent fall in JPM would be a buying opportunity for the company ... that is, if they had the ability to buy ...............

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:14 | Link to Comment oddjob
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The morons at JPM thought selling Silver they don't own to repurchase their own stock was a good idea.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:30 | Link to Comment Alea Iactaest
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I'm looking forward to the next SI-JPM cross. May be the last one.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 15:04 | Link to Comment goldfish1
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From Bill Murphy at Le Metropole article posted to Goldseek today:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1337588175.php

"GATA’s rationale (speaking for myself) about this ridiculous investigation is that the CFTC really has uncovered the scam, but because it is backed by the US Government, they are flabbergasted about what to do, so they do nothing...

a new factor enters the silver scam investigation, which directly affects Morgan’s constant claims to the CFTC that their huge silver short position is hedged."              

"...The Gold Cartel could be in deep trouble now because their honcho, JP Morgan, is in deepening trouble. This is no minor event in terms of the gold/silver market manipulation scandal."

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:37 | Link to Comment SILVERGEDDON
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Emperor Dimon has no clothes. Burning ass hat shot down in flames. TOO FUCKING BAD. Blythe has your parachute and fire extinguisher. Burn , Baby , Burn.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:07 | Link to Comment William113
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GMAC sent me a notice on friday that THEY are filing for Bankruptcy. I just wanted to say HA HA and FUCK YOU GMAC.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:12 | Link to Comment Oh regional Indian
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Now that, is irony.

ori

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:43 | Link to Comment GMadScientist
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Damage Control, Bitchez!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:17 | Link to Comment Quinvarius
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Obviously Jamie Dimon was bailed out over the weekend for at least 10B.  Ending the share repurchase prgram using Fed money was part of the deal.  The guy is a worthless drain on society.  For him to straight out lie about every aspect of the bailout he just got proves what a POS liar scumbag he is.  I detest that cvnt.

The best part is, I know he lied to the Fed too.  What ever he got this time, he needs more.  It isn't over.  That is just how he and Madoff think.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:47 | Link to Comment williambanzai7
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SAVE THE WHALE..

Thar she blows.....

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:53 | Link to Comment TheFourthStooge-ing
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Dimon calls pool episode "an insulated isodent".

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:45 | Link to Comment GMadScientist
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"isotropic pepsodent"

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:54 | Link to Comment Crack-up Boom
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Only Dimon himself could give that a down arrow!  Hilarious!   

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:56 | Link to Comment williambanzai7
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If you've never experienced whale watching, this is gonna be your week.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:06 | Link to Comment falak pema
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Moby Dick?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:46 | Link to Comment GMadScientist
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No, definitely dick.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:05 | Link to Comment falak pema
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fortress bum balance sheet with lots of shadow banking rifts and valleys. Ride away lone ranger into da sunset.

"Hi-Ho Blythe, I was master of all I surveyed; but what a disaster as the whale pulled the plug on my raft and I'm floating adrift. I don't feel like sucking the vortex up ahead. Jesus! Any CDSs out there for me to use as life saver buoy? I need a leg up from a dandy lady who is handy and finds me randy as moon shined brandy! "

"Nope Jamie, nobody wants to cover ur ass or even buy it naked and rosy red. I guess its just you n me in this game of musical chairs and I'll be seeing ya agin when hell freezes over.  No hard feelings but I can see a limp one when it goes soggy!"

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:23 | Link to Comment Hulk
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I'll never get tired of that blow hole...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:23 | Link to Comment williambanzai7
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I believe that is what is called rebranding in the Ad bus

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:41 | Link to Comment Disenchanted
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where's that goddamn donkey when you really need him?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wmGazAd5k

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 13:31 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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Is this a chart of what they mean by "fat tail risk?"

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:47 | Link to Comment FLUSA.com
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Open a new Chase savings account and get 10 free Facebook stocks!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:50 | Link to Comment Manthong
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..and a toaster to put them in.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:52 | Link to Comment FLUSA.com
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nice...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:47 | Link to Comment moonstears
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Maybe they should buy more FB down here in the low 30s, DCA their shares and all. 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:00 | Link to Comment azzhatter
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I put in a bid at $5.00, my fear is it will cover. better cancel

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:48 | Link to Comment Tortfeasor
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When did we change the definition of "Loss" to "Unrealized profit"?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:52 | Link to Comment Seasmoke
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When we created or "saved" millions of jobs

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:05 | Link to Comment ArrestBobRubin
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Since history's oldest genociders became its "Victims".

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:08 | Link to Comment Treason Season
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When we changed a helicopter "crashed" in ______ instead of "shot down".

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 15:09 | Link to Comment goldfish1
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Saw this to my dismay:

Local police consider using mini helicopters

check out the picture

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/tinyhelicopters5912ewxml

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:52 | Link to Comment Poetic injustice
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It works also other way, banks *love* to book unrealized profits as losses to write off taxes.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:49 | Link to Comment Navymugsy
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Glad I sold my JPM on Friday. Oh God I wish there were FB puts avilable!!!!!!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:51 | Link to Comment Downtoolong
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Ben just told Jamie to put the money into Facebook instead. That's the whale they need to save today. Ben wiill back him up on it later. Dimon probably still puked and farted at the same time when he heard that.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:59 | Link to Comment ziggy59
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Can shareholdevote revote dimons salary package again? Just asking

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:56 | Link to Comment willien1derland
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You had me at ChairSatan - Take that Jamie Dimon...Pimpin' Ain't Easy...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:57 | Link to Comment fuu
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But Jamie said on the call this would not affect the repurchse program. Plus it's only like 1/10 of 1% loss...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:01 | Link to Comment midgetrannyporn
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they halted repurchases because the stock price went too low. HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:46 | Link to Comment GMadScientist
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We can't possibly buy this cheap in good conscience. We're whores, but please!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:02 | Link to Comment Mr Lennon Hendrix
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  • DIMON SAYS HE IS A UNICORN
  • DIMON DECLARES JPM SUPREME BANK OF THE WORLD
  • DIMON SAYS HE SHOULD BE NOMINATED SUPREME UNICORM OF THE UST
Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:02 | Link to Comment ArrestBobRubin
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I can see that daily Jamie-Jive is gonna be rich source of humor and Banzai inspiration from here. Yeah boy.

Who knew Jamie is such a giver?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:04 | Link to Comment lizzy36
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Yes, everything is great at JPM.

While Dimon was busy going through "roaming charges" of the retail division, the CIO of London became a dysfunctional clusterfuck.

As loss caps were removed, and risk management was being overseen by a dude named "Goldman" (ironic i know), whose BROTHER-in-LAW hired him for the job (brother in law, was the head of risk at CIO until he retired and had Goldman take his place.....Goldman of course was sancioned in 2007, for trading the SAME names in his PA as he was trading in his firms (at the time) prop account), Dimon was doing what?

Fuck his fortess balance sheet, where were his seconds in command, the loyal JPM lieutenants, why weren't they challanging him? Far bigger issue is why nobody at JPM had the balls to challenge Dimon on his hands off approach to the risks being taken in London.

Sandy Weill always said that what made Jamie Dimon a great lieutenant was that Dimon was never afraid to deliver bad news, never afraid to say "weill was wrong". One wonders where the "jamie dimon" lieutenant is at JPM?

Seems to me the "cult of ceo" has gone to JPM's head. The results are NOT pretty.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:49 | Link to Comment Miss Expectations
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Far bigger issue is why nobody at JPM had the balls to challenge Dimon on his hands off approach to the risks being taken in London.

Plausible deniibility?

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:57 | Link to Comment giddy
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Wow... nice recap... kudos. 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:06 | Link to Comment Watson
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>>>
JPM'S DIMON SAYS THERE'S UNREALIZED $8B IN PROFIT FROM CIO
<<<

How priced, bearing in mind these positions are so large marginal bids and offers are irrelevant?

He needs to lose the positions, and _only afterwards_ make a public statement about P&L.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:08 | Link to Comment Dermasolarapate...
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"Never been a better time then now to buy JPM"...or was that a house?...I forget what they said on TV.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:09 | Link to Comment azzhatter
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Makes no sense, if the shares were a buy at $44 and nothing's wrong why not buy at $33?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:10 | Link to Comment j0nx
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"DIMON SAYS SUSPENDING REPURCHASE PROGRAM ISN'T RELATED TO LOSS"

Surrrrre it isn't Jamie. Whatever you say buddy. These guys have really gotten their dicks in a wringer over there. The extent of it has yet to even be realized. Maybe they can take GS with them and all of the other sociopaths in DC who rely on their campaign bribery err I mean donations..

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:11 | Link to Comment Quicksilver Will
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  Right, Jamie.  All is well. And you stopped buying shares because??? They were getting too cheap?   

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:19 | Link to Comment junkyardjack
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He realized they are getting closer to fair value, 0...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:11 | Link to Comment slaughterer
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Enough is enough: SEC should just halt trading in JPM stock and sell JPM to Goldman for $3 a share.  

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:18 | Link to Comment junkyardjack
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This must be why the market is rallying, I was wondering what was going on....

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:21 | Link to Comment Postmortemism
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JPM is just a zombie bank run by clever salespeople.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:44 | Link to Comment toady
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Not related to the loss?

Of course it's not related to THE loss.

If you think it was related to THE CIO loss, its not....

If you think it's related to THE facebook loss, its not...

Plausable deniability. It all depends on the definition of 'the'.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:10 | Link to Comment TheFourthStooge-ing
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It's related to ..... ummmm ..... that other thing.

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:28 | Link to Comment jez
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Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:38 | Link to Comment Conman
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Apparently a company halting stock buyback is good news since JPM went green there for a second.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:39 | Link to Comment lizzy36
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Btw, Dimon didn't say it, but i see the hands of the Fed on this "stop share buyback".

My guess is ineffective regulators....the same ones who use "bank provided" MODELS, to view the risk of the same bank (wtf do we pay for regulators again) becaue regulators "want to view the risk through the same lense as the banks".....told Dimon to suspend the share buyback.

Dimon has officially been sent to the naughty corner.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:41 | Link to Comment slaughterer
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Wait until they cut or eliminate the dividend.  Then panic. 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:43 | Link to Comment etresoi
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Bring back Bill "I hate my job" Harrison, who could not wait to give Dimon his job.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:57 | Link to Comment Fish Gone Bad
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They will be able to buy a butt load as the stock declines further.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:08 | Link to Comment billsbest
Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:11 | Link to Comment Revjack36
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Look everyone the Emperor has no clothes. Go figure.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:37 | Link to Comment falak pema
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Here is a case of "rally around the flag boys!" :

CITI: We're Super Bullish On JP Morgan, And - Business Insider

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:39 | Link to Comment Milton Waddams
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DIMON SAYS FORTRESS BALANCE SHEET REMAINS

Yeah, and another Fed-sped (board member of the NY Fed, selected to 'represent' the public) once declared his company's dividend 'air tight' on television a few months before cutting the dividend.

September 25th, 2008, xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx CEO xxxxxx xxxxxx said: XXXXXX: THE DIVIDEND OF THE COMPANY AT THE PRICE TODAY IS 5%, SO SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO BUY THE STOCK TODAY IS GOING TO GET AN AIR TIGHT 5% DIVIDEND AND THEN, YOU KNOW, 2009 IS GOING TO BE 2009. IN OTHER WORDS, THE ECONOMY IS GOING TO GO WITH WHAT THE ECONOMY DOES AT A TIME LIKE

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:53 | Link to Comment ghostzapper
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Shalom to the rescue.  They are all on the same team in case you didn't see that.  Just sayin . . . .

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 13:25 | Link to Comment Youri Carma
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JPM may become an 'Isolated event' itself if we put the kibosh on Blyth Masters silver deal. She knows we've kiboshed before ...

and we will kibosh again ...

How Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Hidden Gold Story Exposes The FED & FIAT Money Scam

“The CIO’s “non-vanilla” portfolio is now over $150bn in size .”
From: JPMorgan unit has $100bn of risky? bonds
18 May 2012, by By Sam Jones in London and Tracy Alloway and Tom Braithwaite in New York (Financial Times)
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8ef035de-a043-11e1-88e6-00144feabdc0.html

JPMorgan unit has $100 billion in securitized assets, structured debt: FT
17 May 2012, (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-jpmorgan-idUSBRE84H02J20120518

$3 Billion and Counting: JP Morgan’s Loss Grows by 50% in 5 Days
16 May 2012, by Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/-3-billion-and-counting-jp-morgans-loss-grows-by-50-in-5-days/257312/

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:32 | Link to Comment UGrev
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DIMON Says.. put your hands in your pocket

DIMON Says.. take out your wallet

DIMON Says.. give us your money

Now pull out your cash from JPM.. AH!! I didn't say DIMON Says!!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:44 | Link to Comment SILVERGEDDON
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Jamie's fudge is gonna get packed in the crowbar hotel, 'cause the POTB are gonna need a fall guy for Armageddon, fiat style. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Black Salami or bust, Jamie !

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 13:12 | Link to Comment dunce
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The history of buy backs has shown them to be harmful to the regular share holder. Most take place in an effort to give the stock a temporay boost so management can excercise their stock options. It is little more than market manipulation and insider trading.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 14:03 | Link to Comment ndotken
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Mon, 05/21/2012 - 14:22 | Link to Comment dizzyfingers
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Dimon's Role on N.Y. Fed Board Sparks Fierce Debate

The fallout of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s $2 billion trading loss has reignited old worries of just how close Wall Street is to one of its top regulators, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Politicians and consumer activists have called for Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chairman and chief executive, to resign from his position as a board director at the New York Fed.

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