Fat U.S. bank profits mask housing woes
Posted by: in Home Mortgage Online, tags: Alarming Rate, Bank Profits, Banks, Chase Banking, Dark Underside, Excerpt, Globe And Mail, Housing Market, Housing Woes, Investment Banking, Mask, Mckenna, Perception, Random, U S BankRandom Feed wrote an interesting post today on
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Barrie McKenna Globe and Mail.com Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s fat investment banking profit masks a dark underside of the U.S. recovery – the housing market is still a mess and homeowners are defaulting at an alarming rate. Heralding what’s in store for other major banks, JPMorgan reported almost $3.6-billion (U.S.) in profit in the third quarter – a stunning 580-per-cent surge from the same quarter last year – cementing the perception that banks are emerging s
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