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this morning the olympic committee responds. newsroom begins right now. good morning. happy friday 13th. i m carol costello. we begin this hour with a very bad day for the nation s biggest banks. jpmorgan chase and its ceo jamie dimon are opening their books and telling us just how much money the firm lost in a bunch of risky trades. the blunder stunned the financial world and fueled more debate on whether banking regulations are tough enough. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange and has been listening to a jpmorgan conference call this morning. alison, what have you heard? if you re totalling up the losses so far this year from those trading losses from the risky trades, what it adds up to is $5.8 billion. that s almost triple what was originally thought. but jamie dimon said they could get bigger by another $1.7 billion. keep in mind just because the trades were discovered and announced to everybody, you know, they can t just suddenly be stopped. so what has
it is $5.8 billion and counting. that s how much the nation s biggest bank said it lost so far from a complex trading scheme that was supposed to hedge against risk. the updated figures came in as the ceo jamie dimon personally briefed analysts on second quarter earnings which still managed to beat expectations. team coverage this morning, alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange to explain how this could impact all of our wallets. let s start with felicia taylor. you re at jpmorgan chase headquarters in new york. we have a healthy bank, o do we have a healthy bank i guess judging by overall earnings? reporter: actually, we do. the point is let s look at the numbers and what we know now as a result of that risky trade. as you mentioned, a $5.8 billion loss. nevertheless, the company was able to absorb the losses and make $5 billion in the second quarter. so when you talk about the health of the bank, no question about it, they had earnings that outpaced expectation.