3M <> falls to a 52-week low following yesterday''s $110M jury award to two U.S. Army veterans over combat earplugs said to cause hearing loss, which the company says it will appeal.
Biden Team Briefs Wall Street Banks On Looming Russia Sanctions, Including ''Nuclear Option'' Bloomberg reports that the Biden administration has briefed Wall Street on possible new far-reaching sanctions on Russia , and ongoing efforts to ensure that they wouldn''t disrupt the global financial system. This included National Security Council officials this week holding discussions with executives from major banks including Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. - according to the Bloomberg report. This similarly comes as the administration is said to be reaching out to energy firms in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa - in hopes of helping Western Europe tapping alternate supply sources should things escalate to the point of Russia drastically cutting off gas to Europe, which could be a likely retaliatory move by Russia. But while Washington has been talking sanctions and even cutting Russia off from SWIFT , Ukraine''s President Zelensky himself has been busy attempting to reign in the loose canon and "dangerous" rhetoric coming out of Washington officials
Recession On Deck? BofA Slashes GDP Forecast, Sees "Significant Risk Of Negative Growth Quarter" With a panicking Biden likely to continue freaking out over soaring inflation, and calling Powell every day ordering the Fed chair to do something about those approval rate-crushing surging prices… ... which in turn has cornered Powell to keep jawboning markets lower, with threats of even more rate hikes and even more price drops until inflation somehow cracks (how that happens when it is the supply-driven inflation that remains sticky, and which the Fed has no control over, nobody knows yet) we recently joked that the market crash will continue until Biden''s approval rating raises. Stocks will keep crashing until Biden''s approval rating rises — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 26, 2022 Sarcasm aside, we are dead serious that at this point only the risk - or reality - of a recession can offset the fear of even higher prices. After all, no matter how many death threats Powell gets from the White House, he will not hike into a recession just because Biden''s approval rating has hit rock bottom.

JPMorgan: Not Enough Capitulation To Call A Bottom

07:59pm, Thursday, 27'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
JPMorgan: Not Enough Capitulation To Call A Bottom One day (and one week and one month ) after JPM called again to buy the dip, at least one group inside the largest US bank - arguably the most important one - is getting cold feet on a quick bounce. As the bank''s trading desk writes this morning, while stocks reacted poorly to Powell''s unexpectedly hawkish comments, interestingly retail investors bought $1.69bn on the day: " this is the second most on record." This is a problem because it means that the market still refuses to capitulate and signal an all clear (see more below). And while retail investors stubbornly continue to buy the dip, JPM also notes that it is still the case that "we hadn’t seen consistent signs of capitulation by HFs" and adds that it seems that there’s an impulse to buy the dip recently among a broad set of discretionary investors. "Given how much the market has declined recently, it does seem like we could see a bounce, but whether this is a sustainable rebound remains to be seen in our view." Here are JPMorgan Prime''s key points on recent flows: HF Flows – dip buying on Mon and Tues, post large selling on Fri: HFs bought the dip on Mon and Tues (just under +1z globally both days) Notionally, the biggest buying was in N.

Wall Street Banks Award Billions More In Bonuses To Top Earners

12:00pm, Thursday, 27'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Wall Street Banks Award Billions More In Bonuses To Top Earners Regular Americans struggling to make ends meet as inflationary pressures drive prices higher on everything from fast food to cars to rent are seeing wages rising thanks to a labor crunch that we have discussed in more detail here. Unfortunately for many, rising wages still aren''t enough. But bankers aren''t having that problem. From Wall Street to Europe and beyond, bankers have been lavished with massive bonuses following the dealmaking bonanza of the last two years. And over the last day or so, we have seen a flurry of headlines in the financial press touting new bonus packages at BofA, Deutsche Bank and Goldman. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Bank of America had decided to take a $1 billion pool of company shares and use it to distribute bonuses to nearly all of the bank''s employees. 97% of the bank''s workforce is eligible: The incentive, to come on top of regular compensation, goes to staff who earn as much as $500,000 a year, according to a memo from Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan.
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Ex-Barclay''s Chief Jes Staley Reportedly Begged JP Morgan To Keep Epstein As Client JP Morgan was implicated but never prosecuted in Bernie Madoff''s Ponzi scheme after authorities determined that employees at the bank likely knew something was off inside Madoff''s shop - but there was simply nothing to be gained by blowing the whistle. Still, its association with Madoff became a major embarrassment for the bank, and afterward management pledged to be more judicious and discerning. But that didn''t stop the bank from continuing to service unrepentant pedophile Jeffrey Epstein for years after his 2008 conviction of soliciting sex from a minor (a charge that was eventually exposed as woefully inadequate considering the scope of Epstein''s child sex-trafficking operation). But even then, those who knew Epstein must have had at least some nagging doubts, even if they had completely rationalized Epstein''s penchant for traveling with a harem of underage women. Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley is among the Wall Street titans who were dislodged from their perch in the aftermath of Epstein''s subsequent arrest and suicide.

Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan Urge Investors To BTFD

05:10pm, Wednesday, 26'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan Urge Investors To BTFD Is the worst behind us? According to strategists from Goldman Sachs, Citi, JPMorgan, and BofA (selectively), it is time to buy-the-f**king-dip. The market is experiencing a correction within an ongoing bull market cycle according to Goldman''s Peter Oppenheimer Any further significant weakness at the index level should be seen as a buying opportunity, in our view, The key thing for equities from here is how much any of this shift upward in interest rate expectations and indeed in financial conditions will hit growth, Goldmans Oppenheimer said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Thats going to be key to determine where equity markets stabilize. Specifically, Goldman notes that their Risk Appetite Indicator (GSRAII) has fallen back, suggesting we are getting closer to levels that have typically been a good entry point for longer-term investors. Goldman warns that the biggest risk is that high valuations will continue to unwind should real rates rise much further, but they note the crucial determinant is what is happening to growth .
Here''s What The Fed Will Say Today, And How The Market Will React Over the weekend, Goldman sparked a hawkish frenzy when, in its latest FOMC preview , the bank added to the fuel started by Jamie Dimon who last week predicted " six or seven " rate hikes when it said that while its base case remains at 4 rate hikes and balance sheet runoff starting in July ... " recent developments have made us more concerned about the inflation outlook " and as a result there is risk " the FOMC will want to take some tightening action at every meeting " until the surging inflation picture changes. This, Goldman''s chief economist Jan Hatzius says, raises the possibility of a hike or an earlier balance sheet announcement in May, and of more than four hikes this year, including the possibility of one rate hike at every meeting in 2022. For its part, JPMorgan balked at this hawkish take, and as we discussed also over the weekend, the bank said that "the Fed is likely to strike a more dovish tone relative to extreme investor expectations" (expectations which reached panic levels thanks to JPM''s own CEO, Jamie Dimon, who said there is a "good chance the Fed will hike six or seven times").
Stop Freaking Out About The Fed: JPM Says Nothing Unexpected Is Coming Now that the gamma hangover is largely gone, dealers are buried under far less negative gamma, and option flow has normalized, the only concern traders have is whether the Fed will ignore the market''s loud warnings (any overly hawkish statement by Powell tomorrow will be punished with a resumption in the furious selloff) and continue its market crushing ways if only to contain "son of a bitch" inflation. But at least according to one bank, the market is overly worried about nothing. As JPMorgan writes in its morning market intelligence note, with the Fed meeting tomorrow, what should be a non-event now has investors questioning (i) will the Fed end QE next week; (ii) is next week a live meeting or does liftoff begin in March; and, (iii) is the first rate hike 25bps, 50bps, or more. The answer to all these, according to JPMorgan, is "stop freaking out", to wit: (i) No while the economy does not really need additional stimulus there is noticeable impact from Omicron without a clear answer as to when Omicron fully dissipates. (ii) The JPM view is that liftoff begins in March.

J.P. Morgan agrees to acquire 49% stake in Viva Wallet

10:32am, Tuesday, 25'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
J.P. Morgan (JPM) to acquire an ownership stake of ~ 49 percent in European cloud-based payments fintech company Viva Wallet Holdings Software Development Financial terms of the

ResMed defies selloff after upgrades from JPMorgan and BofA

07:56pm, Monday, 24'th Jan 2022 Seeking Alpha
In a day of a widespread market selloff, ResMed <> is trading flat after Bank of America and JPMorgan upgraded the dual-listed medical device maker amid a product recall of a
Banks do not need to provide an explanation when shut down accounts owned by clients deemed "too risky," according to former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz.

"The Market Is Starting To Think Recession"

04:20pm, Monday, 24'th Jan 2022 Zero Hedge
"The Market Is Starting To Think Recession" For the past few weeks we have been casually tossing around an apocryphal "modest proposal" - namely that the Fed is either hiking into a stagflation, which will have catastrophic consequences for markets, or worse - it is hiking with hopes of creating a recession. While seemingly ludicrous, this would make sense in light of concessions from bank that US demand remains red hot and is driving inflation higher, and only a sharp slowdown in the US economy could help reset the economy ahead of the midterms. Goldman: "inflation risksrather than improving growth expectationshave driven the recent hawkish pivot," Translation: the Fed is i) either hiking into a stagflation or ii) hiking with hopes of creating a recession zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 15, 2022 It now appears that at least one bank is starting to side with this view. Looking at the rout in the Russell 2000 index, which fell at least 1.5% every day last week and today tumbled into an official bear market ...
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