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- <text id=90TT2578>
- <title>
- Oct. 01, 1990: American Notes:Banking
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 01, 1990 David Lynch
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 47
- American Notes
- BANKING
- Watch Out, Wall Street
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- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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