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- NATION, Page 47American NotesBANKINGWatch Out, Wall Street
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- As bank profits slumped in recent years, industry leaders
- have searched for ways to expand into new lines of business.
- Last week the Federal Reserve Board granted J.P. Morgan & Co.,
- the parent of the giant bank Morgan Guaranty Trust, the right
- to underwrite stocks through a separate subsidiary. The
- decision marked the widest breach yet in the 1933
- Glass-Steagall Act, which has barred banking firms from buying
- and selling stock. On Wall Street securities firms charged that
- bankers might funnel federally insured deposits into risky stock
- deals. But regulations bar bank holding companies from
- shifting funds from a bank to a securities subsidiary.
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