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3 wood5/26/2009 4:18:36 am PDT

The One is not going to like this:
JPMorgan $29 Billion WaMu Windfall Turned Bad Loans Into Income

May 26 (Bloomberg) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. stands to reap a $29 billion windfall thanks to an accounting rule that lets the second-biggest U.S. bank transform bad loans it purchased from Washington Mutual Inc. into income.

Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. are also poised to benefit from taking over home lenders Wachovia Corp., Countrywide Financial Corp. and National City Corp., regulatory filings show. The deals provide a combined $56 billion in so-called accretable yield, the difference between the value of the loans on the banks’ balance sheets and the cash flow they’re expected to produce.

I expect to see Barney Frank and Geithner jump all over this one, making a profit is so taboo now, you know.