A circus dwarf sat on the lap of J.P. Morgan, Jr. and posed for pictures while the storied banker waited to testify before a senate committee on the 1929 crash. A lot has changed since 1933, but some things have remained constant. Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan JPM is
There is not much doubt thatBest Buy (BBY) will go out of business eventually unless it changes the way it does business. Finally there is a big leap at Best Buy to arrest the company’s downward spiral. Best Buy founder and former chairman Richard Schulze has resigned. Schulze owns 20.1% of the company.
JP Morgan (JPM) recommendation is being withdrawn. JP Morgan reports unexpected big investment loss in the range of $800 million to $2 billion. JP Morgan’s CEO calls the loss egregious and self-inflicted. JP Morgan now sees more portfolio risk than they recently disclosed in their earnings call. This appears to be
This post is being reproduced from an earlier post in ZYX Buy Change Alert. J.P. Morgan (JPM) is the strongest bank in the U.S. and perhaps in the world. Yesterday JPM reported earnings . The stock first spiked up and then went down with the market. The CEO Jamie Dimon was very optimistic on the
It appears that a big European bank got close to failure last night. European banks, especially French banks, rely heavily on funding in the wholesale money markets. It appears that a major bank was having difficulty funding its immediate liquidity needs. The cavalry was called in and has
After studying the details of the debt ceiling deal, here is a list of action items that all investors should consider: Short sell nursing home stocks. On our radar screen are Skilled Healthcare Group (SKH), Sun Healthcare Group (SUNH), and Kindred Healthcare (KND). Buy banks with strong treasury exposure. On
JPMorgan (JPM) is dead money in the short run. This post is in response to several emails that we have received from the readers of this blog. At this juncture three screens of the ZYX Change Method are positive and three screens are negative.We have carefully analysed JPMorgan’s conference call. Our
This morning, there are two upgrades on Molycorp (MCP) including one from JP Morgan (JPM). Morgan was the underwriter of the secondary and the upgrade was expected. Nonetheless, we will cover our short position right here around $46.20 and look for opportunities to short at higher prices starting around $47.50 in