Leon Cooperman, chief executive officer of hedge fund Omega Advisors Inc., talks about JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $2 billion trading loss and the performance of Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. Cooperman, a JPMorgan shareholder, speaks with Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Some quotes:
“We live in a very competitive economy, and banks need to take a certain amount of risk.”
“They took the risk and it was a prudent risk.”
On JPM stock, which Omega Advisors own:
“For someone with a two- or three-year time horizon, you would have a nice capital gain,”
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