Conventional wisdom has been if oil goes higher, its a good day for the market and if oil goes lower, sell, sell, sell. Its a bad one. So, it went down two bucks. Got hammered. We saw the urgency of that formula writ large today because we learned jpmorgan has 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Thats 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Kind of like making it the exxon of banking with hopefully exxons discipline. Oddly given the plumeting price of oil, only 15 million in loan loss reserves. Even though 19 billion is loan portfolios. Say firms with junk bond status. Boo. And 39 of it was made to Exploration Production companies. The wos f the worst when it comes to who is paying anybody back. Jpmorgan said the Energy Company hey. 20 billion. But to me, having lived tlau low loss sickle i can only say give me a break. Im not buying it. Oil retreats hard here, they could double that number and i wouldnt believe it. Sorry. I didnt like anything about this discussion. Yeah, reported a littl
Old smokestack. Let me set the scene. Conventional wisdom has been if oil goes higher, its a good day for the market and if oil goes lower, sell, sell, sell. Its a bad one. So, it went down two bucks. Got hammered. We saw the urgency of that formula writ large today because we learned jpmorgan has 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Thats 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Kind of like making it the exxon of banking with hopefully exxons discipline. Oddly given the plumeting price of oil, only 15 million in loan loss reserves. Even though 19 billion is loan portfolios. Say firms with junk bond status. Boo. Exploration production companies. The wos f the worst when it comes to who is paying anybody back. Jpmorgan said the Energy Company could cost them. Hey. 20 billion. But to me, having lived tlau low loss sickle i can only say give me a break. Im not buying it. Oil retreats hard here, they could double that number and i wouldnt believe it. Sorry. I didnt like anything about this disc
Of oil, only 15 million in loan loss reserves. Even though 19 billion is loan portfolios. Say firms with junk bond status. Boo. And 39 of it was made to Exploration Production companies. The wos f the worst when it comes to who is paying anybody back. Jpmorgan said the Energy Company could cost them. Hey. 20 billion. But to me, having lived tlau low loss sickle i can only say give me a break. Im not buying it. Oil retreats hard here, they could double that number and i wouldnt believe it. Sorry. I didnt like anything about this discussion. Yeah, reported a little more than a month ago. Why didnt they Say Something then . It was low. Being hopeful. Im not jamie diamond just plunked down 26 mill to buy five shares. Got enough cash. Oil goes much lower from here. Believe me. Buy some even lower. This oil and gas exputs a new swin. Before you freak autoout and say, wow, all under reserve, it is a really big bank. Its got billions and billions of dollars in goods and were not watching the d
Its a bad one. So, it went down two bucks. Got hammered. We saw the urgency of that formula writ large today because we learned jpmorgan has 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Thats 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Kind of like making it the exxon of banking with hopefully exxons discipline. Oddly given the plumeting price of oil, only 15 million in loan loss reserves. Even though 19 billion is loan portfolios. Say firms with junk bond status. Boo. And 39 of it was made to Exploration Production companies. The wos f the worst when it comes to who is paying anybody back. Jpmorgan said the Energy Company could cost them. 20 billion. But to me, having lived tlau low loss sickle i can only say give me a break. Im not buying it. Oil retreats hard here, they could double that number and i wouldnt believe it. Sorry. I didnt like anything about this discussion. Yeah, reported a little more than a month ago. Why didnt they Say Something then . Not like oil was flying in january. It was low.
Walk us through just how big a deal this merger would happen, and how close the scrutinizing has been. One of the longest deals weve had running. Its been more than the year. It would have been a very big deal. Halliburton and baker hughes were looking to merge to better compete against slumber j which recently acquired cameron. They dont fly. Its been very seldom that a market can be down to a duopoly. Lisa baker hughes shares not moving much. However insurers also not moving that much. Why . This has been dragging on so Long Committee of investors may have already been expecting this. Halliburton and baker hughes have been trying to make concessions, trent to offer up settlement for a long time now trying to offer up settlement for a long time now. Theyre facing regulators in europe and brazil as well. Theyve been trying to make this work, weeks and weve seen halliburton trying to offload a bunch of assets. Antitrust officials will be talking about the global reach. It is a huge deal