JPMorgan Chase is facing inflationary pressures and is implementing efficiencies to counteract it, while maintaining flat headcount through 2025. The company remains optimistic but has not observed a significant loan growth yet.

How JPMorgan Chase performs in 2025 will largely depend on how economic conditions evolve. A backdrop of a firm labor market and durable credit conditions would support the bank's income growth. Investors comfortable with this baseline scenario have good reason to buy or hold the stock.

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said in a statement alongside the bank's fourth-quarter earnings that the U.S. economy “has been resilient” and that businesses appear more upbeat.

US stocks surged higher Wednesday after an encouraging inflation report and blockbuster profits for some of America’s biggest banks.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) shares are trading nearly flat premarket after it reported fourth-quarter FY24 results. Reported revenue rose 11% year-on-year to $42.8 billion. Net revenue (managed) was $43.

Sheer size doesn't guarantee future growth, though. Indeed, the bigger the organization gets, the more difficult it can be to find new ways to tack on even more size. For any company to be the basis for a life-changing investment, it must be able to firmly outpace the mere rising tide of inflation and population growth.

Corporate earnings are coming in strong. Investors are also seeing the Trump administration take a less aggressive approach to tariffs than some had expected.

JPMorgan Chase's annual profit rose to a record as its dealmakers and traders reaped a windfall from rebounding markets in the fourth quarter, it reported on Wednesday.

The risks of a broad implementation of tariffs have "likely increased," given recent reports that members of President Donald Trump's economic team are considering raising them by 2% to 5% per month,

In the bond market, Donald Trump’s first week, at least, turned out far less destabilizing than feared. Traders hope the same goes for the latest shift from the Federal Reserve.

WITH uncertainty swirling around the outlook for inflation and interest rates, there’s been one dependable catalyst keeping Wall Street’s spirits lifted: Corporate America’s bottom line. Read more at The Business Times.