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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Yesterday’s Market Plunge Shines Harsh Light on Big Banks and their Derivative Counterparties

Courtesy of Pam Martens

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

As we’ve previously reported, five mega banks on Wall Street hold the fate of the entire financial system of the United States in their crony, frequently soiled hands. Yesterday’s trading action clearly showed the ugly warts between those banks and their derivative counterparties in the insurance industry. And even though their crony regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, allows the banks to trade their own stocks in darkness in their own internal Dark Pools, someone else clearly got the upper hand yesterday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost a whopping 800 points or 3.05 percent but each of the five mega banks outpaced the Dow’s losses on a percentage basis. That’s not a good thing when Congress has left the fate of a nation in such perilous hands – especially when those very same banks caused the greatest financial crash in 2008 since the Great Depression.

Citigroup, the bank that received the largest government bailout in U.S. history in 2008, including a secret $2.5 trillion in almost zero rate loans from the Federal Reserve, led the losses among the Wall Street mega banks yesterday with a decline of 5.28 percent. Bank of America was next with a loss of 4.69 percent. Goldman Sachs lost 4.19 percent with JPMorgan Chase following on its heels with a decline of 4.15 percent.

Unlike the Dow and its four banking peers which continued their losses into the final hour of trading, Morgan Stanley’s stock mysteriously rallied beginning at 2:42 p.m. In a very non-typical fashion, Morgan Stanley had the best showing among the Big Five Wall Street banks, with a loss of 3.34 percent.


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