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JP Morgan’s $2 Billion Deal Backfires

JP Morgan's bank strategy has come under fire (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

J.P. Morgan Chase made it through the financial crisis relatively unscathed. And its CEO, Jamie Dimon [dye-mon] was supposed to be untouchable.

But yesterday, the firm announced that it had taken a two-billion dollar loss on a massive trade that backfired.

Dimon called the bank’s strategy “poorly executed and poorly monitored.”

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One Response to “JP Morgan’s $2 Billion Deal Backfires”

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