WHO Mad Money February 24, 2016
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 t...