MarketFoolery: 05.14.2012
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🗓️ 14 May 2012
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
JPMorgan Chase makes some big changes. Yahoo! gets a new CEO. And Cheseapeake Energy gets a boost from an activist investor.
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| 0:13.1 | It's Monday, May 14th. This is Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio Charlie Travers from Motley Fool Special Ops. Mike Olson from Motley Fool Inside Value, Joe Meger. Gentlemen, happy Monday. |
| 0:14.2 | Howdy. |
| 0:15.2 | Earnings Palusa is over, I think it's fair to say. |
| 0:18.0 | There's still some companies that will be reporting earnings, |
| 0:20.2 | but a couple weeks ago when it was just all earnings all the time they yeah that's not today |
| 0:23.4 | today it's I guess it's like all executives all fireings all the time yeah exactly so we're gonna talk |
| 0:30.6 | about Yahoo we're gonna talk about Chesapeake Energy, but we will start with the continued fallout |
| 0:36.4 | from the J.P. Morgan Chase story. |
| 0:39.2 | Shares down slightly this morning. |
| 0:41.2 | The CEO, Jamie Diamond, is under fire on a couple of fronts. |
| 0:45.7 | Some calls for him to step down from his seat on the New York Fed, some calling for him to give up his chairmanship of the company. |
| 0:54.6 | And Aina Drew, who was the firm's chief investment officer, announced that she is retiring, |
| 1:00.8 | and ironically she was in charge of J.P. Morgan's risk management. |
| 1:05.3 | So Joe, there's a lot here. |
| 1:07.2 | There's a lot going on. |
| 1:08.2 | It's obviously a story that's very much in flux. You sort of took exception the other day on Motley Full Money when I mentioned that |
| 1:17.8 | Simon Johnson, the economist, suggested that Jamie Diamond's got to resign. And not only he should resign. that Let's keep some perspective so there are about 2 billion in the whole on this |
| 1:35.0 | trade or series of trades in the strategy that's obviously a problem and somebody's |
| 1:39.4 | head should roll for that but it's a hundred and fifty billion dollar |
| 1:42.0 | business and diamonds done a fantastic job |
| 1:44.9 | of turning J.P. Morgan into one of the strongest banks on Wall Street in the world. |
| 1:49.5 | I think it's a very well-run institution despite this hang-up and I know that everyone |
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