JP Morgan Chase warns of second quarter trading shock

Thursday 2 June 2005 at 16:00

Jamie Dimon, president of JP Morgan Chase, has delivered a stark warning that the Wall Street giant's trading profits in the second quarter could be "the worst the firm has experienced in some time". In the second quarter of last year trading revenues were $968m.

In the first three months of this year, JP Morgan Chase reported trading revenues of $1.86bn, the highest for a year.