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JPMorgan: Prime Loans Form Dark Cloud

Stock quotes in this article: JPM , WFC , C , NCC , WB , BBT , PNC  

Updated from 2:55 p.m. EDT

JPMorgan Chase(JPM Quote) has found a new source of trouble -- its prime mortgage portfolio.

The banking titan said Thursday that it could see losses as high as $300 million a quarter by sometime in 2009 in its $47 billion prime loan portfolio, triple from current levels.

CEO Jamie Dimon attributed the rise in prime loans written off to a surge in high loan-to-value jumbo loans gone bad as a result of the poor housing markets. ...

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