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  • JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon faces shareholders tomorrow after the announcement of a $2 billion loss. He'll most likely get to keep his 2011 pay package, but expect changes in leadership elsewhere in the company.

  • How did JP Morgan lose $2 billion on a single bet? Here's some plain English to help understand it.

  • The well-regarded JP Morgan Chase CEO has been talking big talk about how well the bank managed its risk. But this week, we saw he didn't walk the walk.

  • Consumer Reports polled 1,000 U.S. households and found that more Americans are feeling stressed today than at any time since September 2009.

  • U.S. households hold half of all municipal bonds issued by cities and states in the U.S. But over the course of the past year, those investors have been backing away. Why?

  • Marcy Murninghan's unpublished late 1990s interview with former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead illuminates how he tried to bring a moral sense to banking.

  • Citigroup put up a blog post today disputing that the bank had "failed" the Federal Reserve's stress tests.

  • A New York Times op-ed by a former Goldman Sachs executive director illuminates the long, slow slide of Wall Street's culture and the divisions within the industry.

  • A recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis about the health of the economy in the fourth quarter of 2011 shows a 20 percent spike in investment — a sign that businesses are back to spending, not hoarding, their money.

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