TARNISHED J.P. MORGAN HOLDS LUSTER FOR INVESTORS $JPM $C $BAC
It was not long ago that Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan, was considered the golden boy of American banking. After all, he had guided the bank mostly unscathed through the financial crisis of 2008. Then last year, the London Whale crisis erupted. Bruno Iksil, a London-based J.P. Morgan trader known for his outsized positions, hence the nickname London Whale, accumulated a big credit default swaps (CDS) position. Upon disclosure of a trading loss in this position, J.P. Morgan stock fell out of bed as shown on the chart. Click here for an annotated chart of J.P. Morgan. In the