WASHINGTON — The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has renewed calls for stricter oversight of Wall Street banks. Two years after Congress passed an overhaul of financial rules, many of those changes have yet to be finalized.

JPMorgan’s misstep gives advocates of stronger regulation an opening to argue that regulators should toughen their approach.

The Obama administration has argued that it went as hard on banks as possible without further upsetting global finance. Now Democratic lawmakers and administration officials say JPMorgan case proves that more change is needed.

Still, many in the industry warn against reading too much into one trading loss. They say losing money is an inevitable part of taking risk, as banks must.

Some fear that after JPMorgan’s announcement, regulators will greet industry concerns with more skepticism as they flesh out key parts of the overhaul law.

Here’s a look at four key parts of the financial overhaul and how they might be affected by JPMorgan’s losses:

THE VOLCKER RULE

This provision restricts banks’ ability to trade for their own profit, a practice known as proprietary trading. It is named for former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

_ Battle lines: Banks say it disrupts two of their core functions: Creating markets for customers who want to buy financial products and managing their own risk to prevent major losses.

They say proprietary trading was not a cause of the 2008 financial crisis and the rule is a means of political revenge on an unpopular industry. Advocates of stronger regulation argue that the rule would have prevented JPMorgan’s loss. They say the trades were made to boost bank profits, not to protect against market-wide risk.

_ State of play: A draft of the rule satisfied neither side. It includes exceptions for hedging against risk and for market-making, but banks say they the exceptions are too narrow and difficult to enforce. It’s nearly impossible to tell whether a bank bought or sold something for itself or for customers.

_ JPMorgan effect: Attitudes about the Volcker rule are likely to shift as a result of JPMorgan’s disclosure, experts say. Even if JPMorgan’s trades truly were a failed attempt to protect against risk, the resulting loss strengthens the argument that regulators should err on the side of scrutinizing trades.

ENDING `TOO BIG TO FAIL’

During the 2008 financial crisis and the bailouts that followed, the government was unwilling to let the biggest banks fail, for fear of upending the financial system. As part of the overhaul, Congress created a process to shut down financial companies whose failure could threaten the system.

_ Battle lines: Most players agree that this is a good idea, despite some differences on the details.

_ State of play: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the agency responsible for closing smaller banks that falter, has taken the lead on writing rules to shut down big firms. Most observers believe that the FDIC, under acting chairman Martin Gruenberg, is on track toward creating a system that markets would trust to close a big bank.

Banks have been working with regulators to create “living wills” detailing how they would wind themselves down without disrupting markets. This exercise has forced them to look more deeply at their operations — a defense against the accusation that banks have grown “too big to manage.”

However, U.S. regulators can’t do it alone. A big problem after the failure of Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008 was what to do with its overseas operations. It wasn’t clear which regulators were in charge, or whose bankruptcy court would control the disposal of Lehman’s assets.

Regulators are negotiating with their European counterparts, but it could take years before they agree on rules that would allow a global company to dismantle itself without spreading confusion through the financial markets.

_ JPMorgan effect: Like other banks, JPMorgan supports giving the government the power to dismantle a failing bank. CEO Jamie Dimon said so clearly in an appearance on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. JPMorgan’s loss probably doesn’t affect the likelihood that regulators will break up a bank in the future. The loss wasn’t nearly big enough to threaten JPMorgan with failure.

REGULATING DERIVATIVES

JPMorgan’s bets involved complex investments known as derivatives whose value is based on the value of another investment. Before 2008, many derivatives were traded as individual contracts between banks and hedge funds, without any transparency for regulators. The financial overhaul sought to bring more derivatives onto regulated exchanges and force derivatives traders to put up more cash in case their bets turned against them.

_ Battle lines: Overhauling the rules governing this market, estimated at $650 trillion, has proved as complex as the investments themselves. Banks support many parts of the overhaul but generally argue that forcing too much transparency would make it harder and more expensive for companies to use derivatives as a hedge against risk. They say it is an unnecessary cost that would be spread across all types of companies.

The agency most responsible for implementing these rules, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, faces the threat of a much smaller budget than it says it needs to write the rules and increase its oversight of the derivatives market.

Advocates for stronger regulation argue that the new rules apply to the sorts of derivatives believed to have magnified the financial crisis — and JPMorgan’s losses — but do not threaten investments like energy futures, for example, which airlines use to control fuel costs. They say banks are just trying to protect a lucrative business that other companies can’t compete in today.

_ State of play: About half the rules are done, but many crucial questions have yet to be decided. The rules will be phased in this fall through next spring. Banks are lobbying hard to protect their hold on this profitable business. Banks support pending legislation that would limit U.S. regulators’ control over derivatives trades by their overseas affiliates.

_ JPMorgan effect: Fairly or not, JPMorgan’s big loss on derivatives trades is likely to revive scrutiny of that market. That could give advocates of tighter rules some juice in ongoing negotiations with regulators. It also could empower those who believe the budgets of the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission should be increased to reflect the need for broader oversight.

BANK OVERSIGHT

The overhaul calls on the Federal Reserve to oversee the biggest and most important financial companies and apply a stricter set of standards for financial fitness. For example, the companies must hold more capital as a buffer against future losses. Before, the biggest banks were overseen by a patchwork of regulations.

_ Battle lines: Industry officials say they’re working with regulators to fine-tune how big companies will be overseen. They are concerned, for example, about the extra costs imposed on the big companies to offset the extra risk they create in the financial system.

_ State of play: Industry officials say many of these changes were happening behind the scenes even before the financial overhaul was passed in 2010. They say banks already are better capitalized and meet other standards laid out by regulators.

It’s still not known exactly which financial companies will fall into this category. The biggest banks are included automatically. Regulators have more discretion when it comes to what are known as non-bank financial companies, such as huge insurance companies. Companies on the margin reportedly are lobbying hard to avoid this designation.

_ JPMorgan effect: As the nation’s biggest bank, JPMorgan automatically will face stricter oversight. The trading loss there is unlikely to affect detailed negotiations about how exactly such companies will be overseen.

Daniel Wagner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/wagnereports .

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The New York Times on Sunday outlined legal methods used by Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in federal and state taxes.

One approach highlighted in the report: Even though the company is based in California, Apple has set up a small office in Reno, Nev. to collect and invest its profits. The corporate tax rate in Nevada is zero. In California, it’s 8.84 percent.

While many major corporations try to reduce their tax bills, technology companies like Apple, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others have more options to do so.

That’s because some of their revenue comes from digital products or royalties on patents, which makes it easier for them to move profits to tax-friendly states or countries, the Times said.

In contrast, it’s tougher to shift the collection of profits from the sale of a physical product — like groceries or a car — to a tax-friendly haven.

The 71 technology companies in the S&P 500, including Apple, Google, Yahoo Inc. and Dell Inc., reported paying global cash taxes over the past two years at a rate that’s, on average, one-third less than other S&P 500 companies, the Times said.

Apple has legally allocated about 70 percent of its profits overseas, where tax rates are often much lower than in the U.S., according to company filings.

The Times cites a study by former Treasury Department economist Martin A. Sullivan that estimates Apple’s federal tax bill would have been $2.4 billion higher last year without such tactics.

The newspaper says Apple paid $3.3 billion in cash taxes globally on $34.2 billion in profits last year. That’s a tax rate of 9.8 percent.

In a statement, Apple told the Times that it has complied with all laws and accounting rules, and says that its U.S. operations generated nearly $5 billion in federal and state income taxes in the first half of fiscal 2012.

Wall Street analysts predict Apple could earn up to $46.9 billion in its current fiscal year, according to FactSet.

by Brett Eversole, analyst, True Wealth Systems Thursday, April 19, 2012

Do you think people are ready to give up their coffee? Do you think they’re going to stop wearing T-shirts? No? Then it’s time to look at a couple of “soft” commodities. Soft commodities are simply things that are grown. You don’t grow a barrel of oil or a ton of coal. But you do grow coffee and cotton. The other commodities get a lot more attention, so you might not have heard: In the past 18 months, the world has turned its back on these commodities. Prices have plummeted… But we could be on the verge of an explosive reversal. Let me explain… Since March 2011, the price of cotton is down an incredible 58%… Coffee has fallen 39%.    As prices fall, investors get scared. Jason Goepfert tracks just how scared investors are on his website, SentimenTrader. Right now, Jason’s numbers on soft commodities are off the charts… According to Jason, coffee has never been this hated in the eight years of data he has. Sugar is a similar story… Today’s public opinion on sugar is at the bottom end of its long-term range. Orange juice and cocoa are the same. Investors hate just about all soft commodities right now. When an asset gets this hated, the market for sellers becomes full. From here, demand has nowhere to go but up. As more buyers appear, prices move higher. And when people realize it isn’t the end of the world, prices can absolutely soar. For example, sugar was this hated in December 2008 and April 2010. In the nine months after those extreme hated conditions, sugar prices soared by 122% and 124%, respectively. Another tailwind for soft commodities is what Steve Sjuggerud calls the Bernanke Asset Bubble. In short, Bernanke’s “zero percent” policy is going to ignite bubbles in all kinds of asset prices, including commodities. In Monday’s DailyWealth, Steve mentioned that top fund managers Bill Gross, Jeffrey Gundlach, and Dan Fuss all expect the Federal Reserve to start another round of quantitative easing (QE)… better known as money printing. If that happens, soft commodities could soar. As a whole, soft commodities rallied 59% in just four months after the Fed announced its second round of QE in the fall of 2010. I’m positive we’ll see a similar rally if the Fed decides to turn the printing presses on again. If you’re interested in trading soft commodities, you can do it simply, through JJS, an exchange-traded note that owns futures contracts in sugar, coffee, and cotton. There is a big catch here: Because JJS tracks futures, not spot prices, it doesn’t track the spot prices of these commodities very well. In the last eight years, the spot prices of soft commodities are up 210%. But an index based on futures prices is up only 40%. So JJS is NOT appropriate for a long-term holding. Over time, it will drastically underperform the actual commodities. But in the short term… say six months or less… you can make BIG returns. Shares of JJS increased 88% in the six months after QE2 was announced. I believe we could see a similar gain if the Fed fires up the printing presses again. To be clear, we’re not yet buyers of soft commodities like coffee and cotton… yet. And this idea isn’t based on the fundamentals of where soft commodity prices “should” be. It’s a bet on a Fed-assisted rebound from a hated condition. Add shares of JJS to your radar screen. I bet people will continue to wear clothes and drink coffee. And if the trend turns up and the Fed fires up the printing presses, the gains could be huge. Good investing, Brett Eversole

Further Reading:

“Last year, corn and soybean prices declined 20% off their highs,” Larsen Kusick writes. That translated into a classic “bust” year for certain fertilizer companies… But if demand improves, we could see 25%-40% gains in just a few months. Read more here: An Update on a Classic “Boom and Bust” Sector.

Derivatives are the “meat and meat by-products” of the financial markets. They look, smell and taste just like regular securities, but almost no one understands why we need them in the first place. After all, what’s wrong with actual meat? Or to re-phrase the question: Is Spam really an advancement over ham?

More importantly, can we trust the derivatives markets? Or might they be toxic? Might they subject the financial markets to devastating side effects?

No one really knows…and since lab rats refuse to eat them, we must assess the risks of derivatives by relying on suppositions, theories and conjecture. Therefore, as a public service, your California editor will offer a few suppositions, theories and conjectures about the rapidly expanding derivatives markets.

The worldwide marketplace of financial derivatives is enormous. No one disputes that fact. But the potential destructive impact of these arcane, opaque securities is very much in dispute.

The apologists for financial derivatives usually say something like, “Sure, the derivatives markets are huge on a gross basis, but relatively small on a net basis.” According to this logic, a bank that purchased $1 trillion worth of Spanish interest rate swaps from one-party, but also sold $1 trillion worth of Spanish interest rate swaps to another party, has zero “net exposure.”

Mathematically, that statement is correct. Realistically, it is a delusion. If the financial markets should hit a pothole or two, that “zero net exposure” has the potential to behave a lot more like the $2 trillion of gross exposure. How could that happen? Very simple. One or more of the parties to these enormous transactions would have to renege on its obligations, thereby triggering a domino effect. Very simple…and not difficult to imagine.

In fact, we’ve already seen the trailer for this horror film. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was not only the demise of a prestigious investment bank, it was also the demise of a major counterparty to numerous derivatives contracts. Without Lehman, billions of dollars’ worth of “zero net exposure” suddenly became billions of dollars of plain, old exposure — i.e., unhedged risk.

But that’s when the US Treasury stepped into the path of the falling dominoes with trillions of dollars of newly printed cash and government guarantees. As a result, the dominoes did not merely stop falling, but Wall Street banks were also able to take their fallen dominoes to the Fed and trade them for cash. Pretty nifty, no?

But what happens next time? Will the US government’s power of credit and collusion be sufficient to prevent a disaster in the derivatives markets?

No one knows — least of all the folks who are sitting atop this big, steaming pile of risk exposure. Here’s a bit of background…

In the derivatives markets, the term, “net exposure,” conveys a sense of certainty and reliability — a sense of finely calibrated balance. In fact, “net exposure” more closely resembles the image of two drunks leaning against one another. The net balance between the two drunks is the only pertinent risk factor, the apologists argue. As long as the two drunks are leaning towards one another, the two of them can toss back as many tequila shots as they wish. On a “net basis,” they behave as if they are completely sober.

But what if one of the drunks should keel over backwards, instead of merely leaning toward his fellow drunk? “That won’t happen,” comes the practiced response from the derivatives industry. “That won’t happen. Don’t worry about it. The four largest banks operating in the derivatives markets maintain very manageable levels of net exposure.”

Your California editor is not convinced. He suspects these levels of net exposure are only manageable…until they aren’t. Furthermore, these exposures are growing rapidly. Since 2000, the notional value of US derivatives outstanding has multiplied ten times faster than world GDP. At last count, American banks had conjured more than $200 trillion of financial derivatives into existence, according to the Options Clearing Corporation — a staggering sum that is equal to roughly three times world GDP!

Even scarier, this mind-blowingly enormous pile of risk is highly concentrated inside the finance industry. A mere four banks hold 94% of all derivatives contracts outstanding. JP Morgan’s exposure, alone, is larger than the entire world’s GDP…while the gross exposures of Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs do not trail very far behind.

The story becomes even more frightening when you take a closer look at what these “little derivatives are made of.” Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails would be an improvement.

“In its 2011 annual report,” reports James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, “J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. discloses that the great bulk of the bank’s [derivatives]…are classified as ‘level 2’ assets, i.e., they are valued, in part, by analogy.”

JP Morgan’s derivatives book is not unique. A whopping 97% of all derivatives trade “over-the-counter” where illiquidity and opacity are the norm. In other words, they do not trade on a public exchange where buyers and sellers continuously exchange cash for securities, thereby establishing real-world, real-time values for the securities they trade.

Let’s summarize:

What could possibly go wrong?

To begin answering that question, let’s take a closer peek at JP Morgan’s exposure — specifically, the calculation of its “Derivative Receivables” relative to its tangible equity capital (TEC).

“Derivative Receivables” represents the money other folks owe to J.P. Morgan, based on the current pricing of the derivatives on JP Morgan’s books. These are Morgan’s “winning bets” in other words. But as every gambler knows, a winning bet is not automatically a moneymaker. You must also collect the bet from the loser. Thus, the “Receivables” line item on the balance sheet represents uncollected bets.

So, what would happen if a couple of the losers didn’t pay…just like Lehman Bros. didn’t pay its bets a few years ago? Would that be a problem? In a word: yes.

Obviously, the size of the problem would depend upon the size of the reneged bet or bets. So just for kicks, let’s imagine that almost everyone made good on their bets with J.P. Morgan. Let’s say that 19 out of 20 repaid their bets, while only one out of 20 refused to answer his phone.

If something like that occurred, Morgan would be short roughly $90 billion — a shortfall that would completely wipe out Morgan’s tangible equity capital. In other words, just one deadbeat gambler out of 20 could imperil the bank’s very existence. Morgan would be insolvent…at least until the Treasury and the Fed flew in their “financial medevac” choppers to airdrop billions of dollars onto the disaster scene.

We aren’t saying a disaster is likely to strike. We are merely saying that it is not unimaginable.

And here’s the really crazy thing; there aren’t even 20 gamblers in the derivatives markets to diversify the risks, there are only four that matter — all four of whom are also “the House.” In other words, because only four big banks hold 94% of the derivatives, they all owe money to each other in virtually incalculable ways.

Yes, they can each count the actual receivables and payables, but they still cannot quantify the “what ifs” they could ensue if one piece of this multi-trillion daisy-chain breaks down. “The high concentration of derivatives among the top four players,” warns Reggie Middleton of the Boombustblog, “strongly suggest that they may be subject to extreme levels of counterparty risk towards each other. JPM is the largest player in derivative markets accounting for approximately 40% of total notional value of derivatives in US. JPM’s notional value of derivatives as of March 31, 2009 stood at 39.0 times its total assets and 959 times its tangible equity.”

These spectacularly large data points concern us. Enormous, opaque and illiquid risk exposure is rarely a good thing.

That said, we would quickly add that we have no axe to grind with J.P. Morgan…or any of the other big banks. Maybe they are great banks in every way, maybe they aren’t. We have no idea. We are all about hating the sins, not the sinners. And we are concerned about the sizeable risks that linger just beneath the surface of the world’s financial markets.

Any fool can see that the four big derivatives banks should be dialing back their exposures before the next credit crisis, rather than necessitating the next mega-bailout. But Fed Chairman Bernanke is no fool. He’s got enough education and advanced degrees to understand that two drunks leaning against one another are actually “net sober.”

We aren’t that smart…and probably never will be.

Regards,

Eric J. Fry,
for The Daily Reckoning

Ed. Note: What to do if/when the “mother of all bubbles” bursts, you wonder? Addison has some thoughts on the matter in this presentation. If you haven’t already seen it, now’s the time. Check it out here.

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