This morning, all of the major stock indexes around the world are trading lower. The catalyst for the decline comes as JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) reports a $ 2 billion trading loss caused by the a trader known as the “London Whale.” Traders are now wondering if other firms have similar trading losses out there. Just last week, Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) plummeted after reporting earnings. The company sited a large derivative trading loss as the reason for the poor earnings results. This news from JPM is now the second report by a major firm that has admittedly taken a large loss from derivative trading. JPM has been one of the most outspoken firms against the controversial Volker Rule which would eliminate banks from proprietary trading. Other leading financial equities such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), ProShares UltraShort Financials (ETF) (NYSEARCA:SKF) and BlackRock, Inc (NYSE:BLK) are all likely to be very volatile today.
www.FT.com Argentina is to renationalise YPF, its biggest oil company, ousting the Spanish group Repsol as majority shareholder. Richard Lapper, former Latin America editor, and Guy Chazan, energy correspondent, talk to Daniel Garrahan about whether the move will lead to resource nationalism. For more video content from the FT, visit the Financial Times video section at: www.ft.com
Latest financial market news: • FTSE 100 up on decent Asian showing overnight • More M&A excitement with Avis takeover • Glencore and Tesco release results • UK inflation (CPI/RPI) numbers in line with expectations • Investors looking to plentiful US economic indicators data this afternoon, including US retail sales
US Is Nearing Even Worse Financial Crisis: Jim Rogers Jim Rogers, Rogers Holdings chairman/CEO discussing the economy, rising debt, China’s growth prospects and oil prices. www.cnbc.com Why are some still listening to this guy (Bernanke)? www.youtube.com Federal Reserve Statistical Release, Z.1, Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States www.federalreserve.gov Debt Clock www.usdebtclock.org
See post and transcript here thinkprogress.org EXCLUSIVE: Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of the CME Group, “the world’s largest owner and operator” of private exchanges for derivatives products. CME Group specializes in a number of markets, including trading futures contracts for various blends of crude oil and food commodities. Cantor met with executives, and at one point, gave brief remarks before CME Group employees and various commodity speculators. Cantor told the audience of speculators that his Republican caucus would “do our part” to block the implementation of financial reforms passed last year as part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank law. He even called out the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the regulators in charge of overseeing derivatives and energy speculation, and promised to stop regulations from going online: Currently, energy speculation is at an all time record high. In 2008, according to many analysts, oil speculation — which took place on unregulated private exchanges owned by the CME Group and a set of international exchanges — spiked gas prices to unprecedented levels. Now, excessive oil speculation is again driving the pain at the pump. While Goldman Sachs has claimed that at least of the current price of crude oil is due to speculation, financial experts contacted by ThinkProgress say the Goldman Sachs number …
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Alex talks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration. www.solari.com/ www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
Alex talks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration. www.solari.com/ www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
Alex talks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration. www.solari.com/ www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
