Jamie Dimon, chairman and president of JPMorgan Chase & & Co., speaks throughout the Institute of International Finance (IIF) yearly subscription conference in Washington, DC, United States, on Thursday,Oct 13, 2022.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon stated Monday that while the U.S. economy is succeeding, it would be a “huge mistake” to think that it will last for many years.
Healthy customer balance sheets and increasing incomes are supporting the economy in the meantime, however there are threats ahead, stated Dimon, who was speaking at a monetary conference in NewYork Topping his issues consist of reserve banks checking liquidity programs through “quantitative tightening,” the Ukraine war, and federal governments around the globe “spending like drunken sailors,” the executive stated.
“To say the consumer is strong today, meaning you are going to have a booming environment for years, is a huge mistake,” he stated.
The world’s biggest economy has actually defied expectations for a decline for the previous year, consisting of from prognosticators like Dimon, head of the greatest U.S. bank by possessions. Last year, he alerted that a prospective financial typhoon was on the method, mentioning the very same issues around reserve banks and the Ukraine dispute. But the U.S. economy has actually shown durable, leading more financial experts to anticipate that an economic crisis may be prevented.
“Businesses feel pretty good because they look at their current results,” Dimon stated. “But those things change, and we don’t know what the full effect of all this is going to be 12 or 18 months from now.”
While JPMorgan and other banks have actually been “over-earning” on loaning for many years since of traditionally low default rates, stress were emerging in parts of property and subprime car loaning, Dimon stated.
“If and when you have a recession, which you’re eventually going to have, you’ll have a real normal credit cycle,” Dimon stated. “In a normal credit cycle, something always does worse than” anticipated, he included.
Dimon on guidelines, markets, China
Dimon struck a note of care throughout the panel conversation. JPMorgan is redeeming stock at a “lower level” than previously, a rate which may last through 2024, he stated, as the bank spouses capital to abide by approaching guidelines.
He called the brand-new regulative requireds “hugely disappointing” and promoted higher openness from regulators, stating that JPMorgan would need to hold about 30% more capital than European banks.
“Is that what they want? Is that good, long term?” Dimon asked. “What was the goddamn point of Basel in the first place?”
When inquired about whether the IPO and merger markets were getting offered the upcoming Arm listing, Dimon stated he motivated CEOs to act instead of waiting too long.
“I think the uncertainties out there ahead of us are still very large, and very dangerous,” Dimon stated.
Among those threats is the degeneration in relations with China, he stated. Prospects for JPMorgan operations in China went from looking brilliant to just “just OK” since of the increasing threats, he stated.
“I don’t expect war in Taiwan, but this can go south,” Dimon stated.
