20.03.2014 - Banks and commodities never mixed
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s decision to sell its commodities trading unit ends a chapter of anything-goes banking that dominated the 2000s after the so-called financial modernization laws passed a little over a decade ago. The bank on Wednesday said it agreed to sell the unit for $3.5 billion cash to Mercuria Energy Group Ltd., the Swiss trading giant. J.P. Morgan’s move follows similar sales or shuttering of commodities units by Deutsche Bank AG , Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley to name a few. Exiting what amounted to a more-than-a-decade experiment in the nation’s banking system wasn’t without costs...............................................Full Article: Source
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