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John Pierpont Morgan, founder and owner of the IMM Co. As the shipping industry prospered in the late 19th century, some sought to create a trust that would monopolize U.S. shipping companies. However, all negotiations in this regard in the 1890s fell short. The intervention of John Pierpont Morgan, one of the richest men in the world, changed ...
May 9, 1901, headline in The New York Times. The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway.
The J.P. Morgan & Co. logo before its merger with Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000 Influence of J.P. Morgan in Large Corporations, 1914 The J.P. Morgan headquarters in New York City following the September 16, 1920, bomb explosion that took the lives of 38 people and injured over 400 more
In 1902, J.P. Morgan & Co. financed the formation of International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMMC), an Atlantic shipping company which absorbed several major American and British lines, in an attempt to monopolize the shipping trade. Morgan hoped to dominate transatlantic shipping through interlocking directorates and contractual arrangements with ...
The troubles at JPMorgan Chase keep on mounting. In the video below, Motley Fool contributor John Maxfield discusses the latest setback for the nation's largest bank by assets. With big finance ...
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JPMorgan Chase is reportedly close to settling charges stemming from its relationship with now-jailed schemer Bernie Madoff. Charges suggested that the bank didn't alert authorities about their ...
Members of the family amassed an immense fortune over the generations, primarily through the work of Junius Spencer (J.S.) Morgan (1813–1890) and John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan Sr. (1837–1913). Morgan members dominated the banking industry during their time. J. P. Morgan was the de facto leader of this dynasty, having been the most prominent ...