JPMorgan's chief global economist Bruce Kasman titled the bank's mid-year outlook "Promise and Pressure." He published it on June 28. The two words are doing a lot of work in a year that has moved faster than most forecasters expected. The promise is that global growth is stabilizing in the second ...
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The revisions trend for full-year 2026 is even more positive than for Q2, with estimates for 11 of the 16 Zacks sectors going up since the start of March.
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JPMorgan's head of global markets strategy Dubravko Lakos-Bujas published the bank's mid-year outlook on June 24 with an admission buried near the top. The firm had been "much too cautious" on earnings coming into 2026. The scale of upward revisions the market delivered, he wrote, has no modern ...
The bank remains an industry leader in promoting women, but the female contenders for the top job are out of the running.
JPMorgan Chase on Thursday promoted Troy Rohrbaugh and Doug Petno to be co-presidents of the firm, putting them in the best position to succeed CEO Jamie Dimon when he decides to retire. Here's more detail on the two: Troy Rohrbaugh: Rohrbaugh, 56 years old, is considered by some to be the front-runner to replace Dimon.
In 2005, Jamie Dimon was taking over as chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase when he lured a Goldman Sachs foreign-exchange derivatives trader to join him. Troy Rohrbaugh turned into a lucrative hire. On Thursday, Dimon and the board handed Rohrbaugh the title of co-president and gave him responsibility for running Chase Bank and the rest of its sprawling consumer business.
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JPMorgan Chase promoted Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to co-presidents. In addition, Marianne Lake, a longtime lieutenant to Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, is retiring. The moves mark another twist in the saga of who will replace Dimon, who turned 70 this year.
Banks have been going on a dividend spree after sailing through the Federal Reserve’s latest stress test. Major banks rushed to announce increased dividends and buyback programs after acing the Fed’s latest test of their financial health. JPMorgan Chase Morgan Stanley Citigroup and Goldman Sachs all announced divided increases, while JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley also detailed new buyback initiatives.
JPMorgan on Thursday promoted Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to be co-presidents of the firm, named them CEOs of the bank’s two biggest businesses and gave them $30 million retention bonuses to stay around.
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JPMorgan Chase promoted investment bankers Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to copresidents of the bank, elevating two potential contenders to succeed Jamie Dimon whenever the longtime CEO step downs from running the nation’s largest bank. The bank also announced Thursday that Marianne Lake, who had held several top positions in the company including chief financial officer and CEO of the consumer banking division, will retire at the end of the year. The promotion of Petno and Rohrbaugh is a sign that JPMorgan’s board is looking to its commercial and investment banking ranks as it develops the next generation of leadership, even as Rohrbaugh will now move over to run the bank’s giant consumer business.
JPMorgan Chase will significantly expand its national “Community Center” program, the bank said Thursday, with plans to double the number of these specialized branches the bank operates particularly in low-income neighborhoods. Along with doubling the number of Community Center branches, the bank plans to hire an additional 150 employees, known as community managers, and provide additional programming at these locations. The Community Center program focuses on Chase opening branches in low- and moderate-income communities, particularly in areas where residents may be underbanked or unbanked.
🐻 JPMorgan now sees Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, averaging $80 a barrel in the fourth quarter and around $64 a barrel next year. Brent was last around that level in January, when the dominant narrative in the global oil market was that of oversupply. In a note today, JPMorgan analysts cited lower-than-expected drawdowns of oil stocks from OECD countries and weaker global demand.
JPMorgan Chase named Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh as co-presidents of the company, laying the groundwork to find candidates to succeed chief executive Jamie Dimon.
JPMorgan Chase named Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh as co-presidents of the company, laying the groundwork to find candidates to succeed chief executive Jamie Dimon.
Investing.com -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) said its board plans to increase the quarterly common stock dividend to $1.65 per share from $1.50 per share, starting in the third quarter of 2026. The increase is pending board approval at the time of declaration.
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