J.P. Morgan Outlines 'London Whale' Hit

2012-08-11 — wsj.com

``The largest U.S. bank admitted Thursday in a federal filing that it pushed back a plan to resume share buybacks, scaled back several key measures of capital at the request of regulators and lost money on 28 trading days in the second quarter. The developments came as the New York company tried to unwind a series of problematic positions taken by a trader in the bank's Chief Investment Office nicknamed the "London Whale" for his outsize market bets.''

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