A news item today in the NYT says JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) is in the midst of multi-billion dollar negotiation with various governmental agencies to settle litigation arising from mortgage securities that it sold in the years preceding the great financial crisis.
A settlement figure of between $3B to $7B is being bandied about, but this is in a state of flux.
Yet, notwithstanding all the bad news, JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) is one of the top performing financial stocks today, up 1.76 percent to $51.21 at the time of...


