JPMorgan's $13 Billion Settlement: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?

By Alison Southwick – Oct 21, 2013 at 7:30PM

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Just how bad is a $13 billion fine for a cash-generating machine like JPMorgan?

The following video is from Monday's edition of Investor Beat, in which host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM 0.15%) has reached a tentative deal with the Justice Department to pay out $13 billion to settle a number of investigations into residential mortgage-backed securities that helped usher in the financial crisis, according to The Wall Street Journal. In our lead story on Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger discuss how much this will affect JPMorgan and how much more pain is in store.

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