Friday, May 11, 2012


JP Morgan Reveals Large Trading Loss; Shares Hammered

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) fell 6.5% after-hours after saying it incurred “significant mark-to-market losses in its synthetic credit portfolio.”
CEO Jamie Dimon apologized on a conference call at 5 p.m. for “egregious mistakes” and an “unbelievably ineffective” trading strategy meant to hedge trading positions.
“This is not how we want to run a business.”
These idiots were trading in Credit Default Swaps and using Mark-to-Market accounting, the same accounting system that led to the Enron implosion!

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