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J.P. Morgan Chase, reporting today, the first of the financials out with their results for the

first quarter not good first quarter profit fell 6.7% lower trading lower

investment banking revenue however cutting costs enabled Jamie Diamond to report earnings per share of a dollar

thirty-five better than the dollar twenty-four that had been the consensus forecast and

J.P. Morgan shares in pre-market trading are up 2.6% because you know well

because US Coal Company P-Buddy Energy for bankruptcy, a sharp fall in coal price is leaving

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