The pain was partly cushioned by a boom in trading, with JPMorgan fixed-income trading revenues surging 99 per cent. Fixed income trading also rose sharply at Citi, with trading revenue climbing almost 60 per cent in the quarter.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, which reported a record $10.5bn of loan loss provisions in the quarter, said charges could rise if the economy worsened. “We don’t know what the future is going to hold. This is not a normal recession,” he said, adding that the bank was “prepared for the worst-case scenario”.
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