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JPMorgan profits dive; Wells Fargo’s dip

Toxic credit hurts JPMorgan; Wells takes hit from inherited investments NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s third-quarter profit tumbled 84 percent and Wells Fargo's fell 25 percent, the banks reported on Wednesday. Wells Fargo,...

JPMorgan and Wells Fargo profits fall, but top views

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co posted better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday despite higher credit losses, underlining their standing as among the strongest big banks in the battered U.S....

Enterprise National Bank N.J. Announces Third Quarter Earnings, Nine Month Results (PR Newswire)

Enterprise National Bank N.J. reported a net profit of $68 thousand, or $0.04 per share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, compared to a loss of $43 thousand, or $ per share, reported in the second quarter of 2008 and a...

Recession Anxiety Hits Stocks

A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP Stocks tumbled early Wednesday following a round of dismal economic reports that shifted investors' attention from the crisis in the credit markets to its effect on the economy....

The Sarah Palin Paradigm: Real Change

The longer article below strikes chords comparable to the very short and poetic article by another author ("Sarah Palin: The Warrior Angel"), available by clicking here).It is altogether appropriate that last April, when Barack...

Democrats blocked GOP housing reform

More than two years ago, 20 United States Senators sent a letter to Senate leadership pointing out that American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market

J.P. Morgan HELOC origination fell 77% in third quarter

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- J.P. Morgan Chase said on Wednesday that tighter underwriting standards and panic in the credit markets slowed mortgage and home equity loan origination dramatically in the third quarter. The firm said...

J.P. Morgan Chase profit tumbles; CEO cautions on outlook

Analysts at Thomson Reuters had expected the firm to post a loss of 21 cents a share on $16 billion revenue, on average. In morning trading, J.P. Morgan shares rose 51 cents, or 1.5%, to $41.23. J.P. Morgan is on track to be...

Another bailout? Government pension insurer could be next, expert says

Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor...

Democrat Deregulators

WASHINGTON -- How is it that Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain has been badly damaged by this financial crisis while the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, is successfully presenting...

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