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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon faces shareholders tomorrow after the announcement of a $2 billion loss. He'll most likely get to keep his 2011 pay package, but expect changes in leadership elsewhere in the company.

How did JP Morgan lose $2 billion on a single bet? Here's some plain English to help understand it.

The well-regarded JP Morgan Chase CEO has been talking big talk about how well the bank managed its risk. But this week, we saw he didn't walk the walk.

Consumer Reports polled 1,000 U.S. households and found that more Americans are feeling stressed today than at any time since September 2009.

U.S. households hold half of all municipal bonds issued by cities and states in the U.S. But over the course of the past year, those investors have been backing away. Why?

Marcy Murninghan's unpublished late 1990s interview with former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead illuminates how he tried to bring a moral sense to banking.

Citigroup put up a blog post today disputing that the bank had "failed" the Federal Reserve's stress tests.

A New York Times op-ed by a former Goldman Sachs executive director illuminates the long, slow slide of Wall Street's culture and the divisions within the industry.

A recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis about the health of the economy in the fourth quarter of 2011 shows a 20 percent spike in investment -- a sign that businesses are back to spending, not hoarding, their money.