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: I want to make sure I correctly balance what I thinks a cautious tone on credit and reserve building in the press release, the comment by Jamie that we really haven't seen this‐‐ whatever stabilization we have seen last long enough to be confident that it's lasting. With on the other hand, the comment that I think you might have made to the press this morning and forgive me if I didn't get it right that you still think that the end of the reserve building period is near and I want to understand the thinking that goes into those comments : The point is that subject to the economy stabilizing and these trends continuing, which we just don't know and if that were true, we were getting toward the end of reserve building and we have to remain cautious of what does happen from here and if things worsen, we may need to do more reserve actions and that's the message. Not really different from what we said last quarter actually.: Okay, fair enough. And in terms of the gains that you saw, as you pointed out both through the P/L and the corporate side and the AOCI swing, which was pretty significant, you can give us a sense for how much of that might have been actual realized gains? : Preponderance of it is unrealized it, Guy.: Thank you.
: Obviously, there were a few hundred million dollars of gains that were realized related to the AFS portfolio and the rest, you know, were unrealized values.: Another question just on the WSS unit within treasury security services that you referred to, I'm just wondering if you can give us a little bit more color on was driving the contraction in those spreads there. : It's largely customer activity levels and change in appetite on products, but I think that's one business where we'll have to look and see how the rest of the industry performs when we see some other results to get a firm conclusion there.: Thanks for that. Just one final question on cards. You note that the managed margin actually bumped up by, he guess, close to a percentage point to about 910 basis points. Are you still looking for the regulatory changes that kicked in to cost you ultimately about half a billion? I think that was the number that you had : Our last number was half to 750 million after tax, plus or minus obviously. Again, all other things staying the same which we don't know and it's hard to see given everything else go going on in credit. : There's more on foreign card. The card business is going through a substantial adjustment, and you know, we know that we have visibility to early losses next year. We know we will lose a lot of money next year in cards and it could be north of a billion dollars in the first quarter and the second quarter and that number will only start coming down as you see unemployment and charge‐offs come down, and UGAS stuff is ecstatic announcement. We think it will cost that kind of number, but it does relate to how everybody else in the marketplace reacts. You have to do a better job underwriting up front and you have to do if you want to main your clients a better job of what key call marketing and it was rewards, services and things like that to build a business. What we're doing in the card business is we're looking past 2010, and we've asked the people in the card business to build new products, great, new products, clear and simple marketing, you know, to do what a competitive advantage and we have competitive advantage in the cost side we very competitive advantage in the grant side, and we have competitive advantage of the retail distribution, and we think we will come out with a slightly smaller business and people will cut back credit and subprime and places that can't manage the risks properly, but we think it will be a great business coming out of that and you really won't see the results until 2011 and 2012.: Great. Thank you very much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Glen Schor with UBS.: Thank you. First one is for Mike. Curious about interest rate positioning and the thing that brought the question is if you look at your consolidated average balance sheet, the yield on your long‐term debt came
down 51 basis points this quarter. It's only 209 basis points. I'm just curious if we're looking at a net yield or do you have a significant amount of floating rate debt? You know, it's 270 billion strong, but it's an amazingly low number and it's helping support obviously the net interest margin and curious on how your position in this incredibly low rate environment. : Well, I guess we can follow up afterwards on the debt question and generally looking ahead, we‐‐ and holding aside the investment bank, which obviously has its own dynamics that are net interest margin related and what we do in the investment portfolio which is delivered to Susan about how we position the company which we've been open about, the rest of the businesses will run at relatively stable dollar margin spreads, pressures being actual runoff of some of the consumer portfolios and general stability in the rest of the portfolios. On dollars of margin and close to the same in percentage terms. The overall company has a lot of other factors that go into it, but the real dynamics there typically run through the investment portfolio and the investment bank.: Okay. And you said you wanted to follow up on the long‐term debt one? : Sure, yep.: And maybe while we have Jamie there, too. Look, you both commented on some of the regulatory changes that are coming, but I'm just curious on the ones that you might think could have the most impact because cards had a legitimate impact on how the business is managed, but between the formation of the CFPA and the potential changes in the derivative land, are those the two that are front and center given your comments on how you feel about your capital ratios already? : Well, I think the capital is a little different because the reading around the world, people talk about higher capital liquidity and market and risk and size and God knows what and changes in accounting and all of that, we're very well positioned for that we've got plenty of capital. We have now double the tier 1 common that was required in the SCAB test and all of that. You are right. The two main regulatory issues kind of front and Seth center are derivatives and we really don't know how it will turn out. We hope it turns out in a rational way which is we've been a proponent of getting most of derivatives into to clearinghouse so we don't think they should be forced into an exchange and there should be room for over‐the‐counter with proper‐‐ and you always read about they don't have capital and they're unregulated and all of that is untrue. Over‐the‐counter derivatives if you do it through a broker‐dealer regulated by the OCC and the fed, that capital requirements and counterparty credit requirements, reporting requirements and we think it's important that business be allowed to exist so you can service your customers properly. We don't know how that will turn out yet. It's flopping all over the place and you know, with all four in the exchange, that could have a chilled impact on the business and a lot of companies in America because I think that will change the way people do business in that area, and you know, the consumer financial protection agency again, you know, everyone acts like that is a given and it will happen some way. I wish it weren't. I thought
we had a chance to streamline and simplify our regulatory system and instead, we're making it more complicated and more litigious which over time I think will be more damaging to our country than not damaging. We are in favor of consumer protection. We just don't think that's the right way to do it. If you have to have a consumer protect agency, the most important affect the long‐term decisions will be if you have proper preemption of states, and you could draw a scenario where every state had its own rules and own requirements and its own disclosures, how you will run call centers and you know, the disclosure forms for documents could be longer and more confusing, litigation will be higher and remember, all of that will be paid for by the customer. So you know, one of the great lies in this thing is that it won't. Anything like that will be paid for by the customer and we don't know how it will turn out yet. We'll see.: I hear you here. I have more faith on the derivatives side, too. Mike, maybe last question. Just a quickie. I know it's also an involved question, but could you comment on the impact of the falling dollar, both on the balance sheet and income side on the quarter, does it do much, or do you run much of a hedge? : No. Not on the material things so we can show you that if you want off‐line: No worries. Thank you very much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of John McDonald with Sanford Bernstein.: Mike, it looks like you continued to buy securities this quarter. I wonder if you can give us at a high level your philosophy approach to building the securities book when loan growth for the industry is obviously not there and how do you think about the rate risk associated with the growing investment book? : So growing your balance sheet in the investment portfolio is another way of utilizing your capital and managing and straight exposures and other exposures. But it is true that over time we both have that portfolio. We do it to make money. That's what we're here for. We're a profit enterprise, and we do it to down other exposures and we have to have deposits and other exposures and stuff like that and in a simplistic way and we do disclose this in the 10‐K. I don't know what the number is today, but the 10‐Q, it will show for 100 basis points, one‐time move in the curve it will cost us a billion dollars. We don't look at it in essence in such a way. We look at a whole bunch of different scenarios to make sure this company‐‐ in other words, that will show we have a mismatch of $100 billion and that's really simplistic. We move that around pretty quickly so you shouldn't assume it is going to stay in a position like that. But we make other decisions, with we want to buy mortgages and the mortgage basis, and what are the other scenarios this we're protecting against. We don't take a tremendous amount of risk. We did see an opportunity in the last six months to put on some assets of good spreads and the people in the investment office were allowed
to go to credit products and some trading product because we're being paid an awful lot of money to do it and remember, that's what we're here for and not just the simplistic. Mike said that number over time will come down because the portfolio will come down and the capital will probably be used elsewhere.: Okay. Kind of related‐‐ : Remember, you don't lose it all because the capital doesn't go away. You get to do something else. There will be decisions to be made going forward.: On the same kind of philosophy, hedging the MSR, you know, as the bias on rates is up over the next few years that same investment office has an integrated view of how you're hedging the MSR? : The MSR, as you know, is generally‐‐ generally is short duration, short volatility and short the mortgage basis which is mortgage spreads against swaps and treasuries and you know, general premise is that you're hedged against those things. Even when you're hedged, you're hedged against the model. You will always have volatility. There on occasions when we use the MSR to take the position you that want to take on a mortgage basis, volatility or duration and the real question is what is the cheapest way to do it? So the folks in the investment office have the authority to do that when we think it's the best way to do it. For the most part, you will be hedged those three things. : And it is integrated with the rest of the view of the portfolio.: Okay. In card, any idea what the impact of payment holidays and other deferrals and modifications in card are having on delinquencies, and is the payment holiday something you would do again potentially? : No. We're not going to do it again. I don't think you are really allowed to do it anymore. Mike said it will reduce the charge‐off rate by 750 to 75 basis points in the fourth quarter and reduce it by 50 or 75 in the first quarter. Obviously, we think it's the net present value positive, we probably won't do something like that again. A whole bunch of other numbers get affected and we try to adjust for all of that.: To be on that, there are other modification discussions and deferrals and re‐aging that's going on in card? : It's standard. There's obviously more because you have more things to work out and more problems, and the recovery rates are 5% and not 15. There are other things happening in card. Card is having a tough time. So like I said, we will take an opportunity to build a great business.: Last question. The WaMu CD runoff, Mike, should that help the net interest margin at some point going forward? : You did see it in that deposit margin which is on the retail slide, few
basis points improvement as it rolls off : We have great move. They pay very high rates on those.: That's helping and you print that in your deposit Margin? : Yep : Exactly.: Last question on the cost saves for WaMu. Where are you on the realization of that? : WaMu? : Yeah. We're on track It will all be done, like I said, the final conversion and really those saves will be in the run rate as we exit this year.: Thanks, guys. : Yep. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Betsy Graseck with Morgan Stanley.: Hi, thanks. A couple questions. One on just the NFS changes that you made and how you think through managing the business for that. I thought when you bought WaMu, one of the opportunities was to raise the cross‐sell and as you were doing that NSF would come down. I don't know if you are making these changes ahead of cross‐sell improving, or if there's another opportunity for you to morph the business line to get to the ROAs that you were hoping with the change that you're making. : I don't get your question fully, Betsy: Basic questions is NSFs are coming down, right? : Right.: When you bought WaMu you said you were expecting that you would be doing that given that California is a pretty high NSF market and that you would make up for that cross‐sells increasing. I am wondering if you have gotten to the cross‐sell piece part or target that helps you reduce NSF? : Remember, one of the things in the merger, you have to merge the product sets so you have a change in the products and how they're being used. We also had a change in customers and how they're actually using the products and stuff like that you are seeing both those taking place in WaMu branches and the cross‐sell is doing kind of what we expect to do. We are adding the people in the branches and the marketing and I think‐‐
: With the conversions we will get the new products in. That's on its track as it was with bank of New York and Chase before that on introducing other products and think of whatever happens on fee side is independent, but we're doing both‐‐ we're doing both the right way.: I mean, the NSF changes that you're making now, you know, should have an impact on the ROA in the business, no? Will you have any offsets? : The real NSF changes that we announce will be some time in the first quarter. We're going to have opt in and a new set of products and three a day and a whole bunch of different things and that's really the details really being designed now and I think of it as a first quarter item.: Are there any offsets to that in the business model? : I personally don't think it will be a lot. Mike gave you a static number, $500 million, plus or minus. It's not static. It's neat things and everyone else does it, you can change your pricing a Lilt bit you will get back some of it but not all of it: Did you test it with some of the numbers? : We will be testing some of it, but the answer is no.: Warrants, how do we think about that process and how that is going to evolve? : It's in the hands of the government so obviously, we're awaiting what they choose to do. I think they're trying to get their process down to be a universal one and hopefully they get that rolled out and it falls in their court. : It doesn't affect our company at all.: Two other you quick things. One on trust business. How do you think about the normalized range for the trust business? I know back, you know, a couple years back you had target ROAs and pre‐tax margins for the different businesses and it seems like TSS is running way below what your goals had been. : I think our goal is what we said before, 35% margin : 35% retax margin. We put more capital on the business. Pre‐tax margin this quarter is 26. 31 last. And there's nothing wrong with that pre‐tax margin quarter for the business. You get there with what, spreads normalizing? : Growth.: Lastly, overall earnings for the company. How do you think what your franchise should be generating over time?
: We're not going to give you a forecast, but I think Mike was saying that the ID., we wouldn't expect to earn on these levels on a normalized basis necessarily and that corporate line will come down from 1.3 billion to 800 to 500 over time with the decisions that we make. Card, we don't know yet. We have seen a lot that works in normalized earnings and they're kind of all over the place and if you want to think ahead on the company a little bit and almost $32 billion reserves, if that number goes up a little bit or whatever, you know when things normalize and when we're in 2011, 2012, it has to come down to 12, 15, or 10, and it has to come down and with the earnings and you have to know the other businesses some will go from losing money to making money. The underlying earnings power of the company is very powerful. That's what we try to build all the time, more branches, more bankers, more clients, you know, to drive that number in 2012.: Thanks. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Mike may yeah with BLSA.: Good morning. You mentioned the 500 million‐‐ was it after‐tax or pre‐tax, and is that the total amount of your overdraft fees? : No, it's after‐tax and it's an estimate of what changes might do. It's a very static number. Maybe we'll try to get more information on it later. It's a rough estimate.: That's simply related to the overdraft fees. : Changes in the policies in general, yeah.: Okay. And loans were down about 5% linked quarter, 16% year over year. Is that supply or demand, what are the ins and outs there? : So you know, consumer portfolios with the, you know, you got runoff portfolios from Washington Mutual and credit card and large ones in retail, and obviously some tightening up of underwriting standards in those businesses generally. So expect that at the origination levels, but for a period of time here we're going to have downward pressure on those balances. We're in the business of making loans against our, you know, underwriting standards today and so it's active supplies and demand in that score. On the commercial side, commercial bank, you've seen a little bit further decline of loan balance is down a few billion dollars to 102 or something like that this quarter and that's, you know, more‐‐ it's a little bit of everything, but it's demand, clearly, because we see extended credit lines utilized at their lowest levels of all time. So you can see a swing in those kinds of numbers as soon as confidence returns in our commercial clients and they have some use for that money.: Have you seen any tick up? : And the corporate banking, the investment bank, it's mostly corporations
going to the market and paying down their loans. So the loans and investments are night and day 60 billion over a year, and that was probably more than we expected but to be expected.: Can you give any more color on your trading which is a lot greater than I think a lot of people expected? Your trading revenues are flattish linked quarter, but your trades assets are down and VAR is down. Is all your trading benefit through client flows and wider bid spreads? What is going on there? : VAR is a good one‐point measure but VAR is going down because you are dropping off some of the more volatile time periods in the series, but the trading was drawn across most areas. There's a lot of client flow and spreads are still higher than they were at the bottom. So they're not near as high as they were after the crisis, but they're coming down a little bit. A lot of very good client business and something to train around them.: Last question. This is the first phone call since you had the change management of the investment bank. Clearly, your investment bank is doing well. The question is this a good time to change the management when everything seems to be going right? : You know, I guess‐‐ I guess you don't necessarily make the management changes that you think will be heard the next five to ten years because you think you are having a good quarter or a bad quarter or something like that in fact, very often you get caught doing it at the wrong time. You can't do it in the bad quarter. It won't look right and you just try to figure out what the right thing to do to help the company and I don't think it relates at all to whether you are having a good quarter, a good year or a bad one.: All right. Thank you. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Meredith Whitney with Meredith Whitney Advisory Group.: Good morning. I have two questions. My first is on the supplement page 16. It talks about some the changes you that made in terms of your inputs for your evaluation on your mortgage business, and I wanted to know if you could talk‐‐ give a little more color as to what the inputs were, the last major change it looks like you made was fourth quarter of 2008, and how you have the market. It looks like California might have turned down again.: I guess the way to look at it, the model is always being adjusted and you are always updating it for home prices, housing turnover, pre‐payment models, and you do it at a detailed level. You do it differently for 4.5% mortgages than you do at 5.5 and LTV and stuff like that. That's just updating constantly and sometimes those model changes all things being equal have a benefit and sometimes all things being equal have a negative.: I appreciate how it's constructed. I want to get more color from you as
to is there anything in the U.S. housing market that you see differently on a regional basis improving or not improving, or is it rates sinking? : I think it was mostly lower housing turnover and lower pre‐payment rates. Remember we also make judgments on some of those things continue regardless of the model.: Would you go one step further and comment on the California housing market? : On the housing market?: Yeah. : You know the data as well as we do, and you have seen, again, the numbers and of course, it's you can always question them and half the markets in America of the major MSAs, we have seen a stabilization like a little bit of increase and call it stabilization of home prices. That was more true for lower price homes and higher priced homes, but it also happens in places where price is down dramatically and where price is more down dramatically. Florida is still bad. Parts of California are actually seeing some improvement. We have seen those improvements in MSAs and foreclosures in percent of sales and we see them where foreclosures are not as high as percent of sales. It's a good fact not a bad fact.: Okay. All right. One point of clarification. Mike, when you talked about the commercial portfolio and 111 basis points of charge‐off, I was unclear as to where you thought that was going to go? Is it stable at that level? : No, trending a little higher. And remember, so it's the same message, you know, as we continue to see‐‐ our reserves are probably good, but you probably have continued pressure on charge‐offs. : One of the great things about that business and I'm going back to the old Bank One days where 60, 70% of the revenues were loan related and now it's more like, you know, 40 or maybe even less percent loan related. Here we have a commercial bank having a very good return in a very tough time.: Right : They've done a hell of a job controlling their credit loss and of course, you know, we know in tough environments they're going to get worse, but there's been far better than you might have expected and in that type of environment.: Well positioned, too, great state of Texas : We're great in commercial real estate and the losses are 2.3%. We expect those to go up. We just don't think it will be a dramatic impact on our company.
: Will you comment on the last question timing of commercial real estate, if it's been waiting and when do you think it affects the industry? Do you have derivative exposure, meaning derivative to someone else's real estate exposure? Comment on that and that's my last question, thank you. : We have lending exposure that I mentioned in the commercial bank. That was some in the investment bank. We wouldn't put those in the material kind of category and it makes us nervous and commercial real estate and the values have already dropped, and it's going to be recognize over the next couple of years of people's P&Ls and take writedowns and can't refinance properties and stuff like that we believe you are seeing several hundred additional smaller regional based banks go‐‐ you know, not make it and there's also going to be a lot of capital eventually coming into the real estate business and people try to recapitalize and buy properties at good cap rates. It could be an opportunity for us. Not a negative over time.: Got it. Thanks so much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Jason Goldberg with Barclays capital.: Thank you. I was hoping to flush out some comments with respect to the delinquency trends in home lending. I guess you kind of talked to stabilization. Yet on slide 17 in the slide deck, those lines are going up and there are discrepancies to a percentage, delinquencies versus dollars and delinquencies as portfolios come down and talk to that and if you can expand in terms of what impact or quantify what impact foreclosure moratoriums and modifications are having on overall mortgage delinquencies : Right. Clearly on the overall, you know, 30 plus delinquencies, that's where you get the distortion as things stay in buckets longer. I won't try to take that number down too much. And you see that really in both of those buckets so in percentage terms on 17, you do see those affects rolling through. On a dollar basis, it is stabilization that we're seeing across those portfolios and again, it is portfolios coming down. : Ed stuff that is coming in the front end and going bad the first time, that is where you are seeing stabilize and the roll rates are those that de deteriorate over time. We try to adjust. On the delinquency side, we keep all mortgage modifications in delinquencies throughout the trial process. That's driven up our delinquencies and not down, and Mike may remember what that number was. Something like 20%? : Yeah. 20 to 30% higher depending on the portfolio.: Thank you. And then with respect‐‐ you mentioned reserve leases in the investment bank, is that just attributable to markups in leveraged loans and it flows through that line, or more clarification on that? : That's in the total provisioning line. We took $750 million worth of
chargedowns so carrying value of loans written down by $750 million and loan‐by‐loan basis, many of those loans entered the quarter already having reserves up again so on a net of reserves basis, they were already on average carrying at, say, 60 cents on a dollar. It is just a geography swing. We like on a‐‐ particular hypothetical, we like 60 cents on the dollar and we have a charge‐off event and we charge the carrying value down by 40 cents and release the 40 cents of reserves that we had. That's all running through the credit cost line. It's a release of allowance for loan losses.: Okay, and then just lastly, I mean, you know, obviously things in the fixed income market have been extremely wide and I'm sure there's benefit from that, but I guess it feels like it's maybe narrowing at the point. Can you talk in terms of how that's trended over the last six months and you know, at what pace and kind of how that plays out? : It's different with every single product so it's hard to say. If the bench mark was one before the crisis, it's got as high as six and it's come back to two. And it's really different for every product and one may be actually low and it may never come back to one. Obviously, I mean competitors are back, which I think is a good thing for the industry. You know, there's just much more competition today and people are siege the flow and reducing spreads.: Great. Thank you. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of David with Foxx Pitt Kelton.: Good morning. I don't know if you noticed, but we're starting to get the pay criticism thing really heating up again in the press and I don't suspect that it's necessarily going to go away as these bonus numbers kind of pile up through the quarters. How does this affect your thoughts on if there's some more controversy and some more political pressure? How will that affect your discretionary decisions on pay as you head into the, you know, final quarter of the year? : Let me draw you the big picture. If you look at the efforts they spoke about or the financial stability board and we don't have the fed and the fed or the treasury put out the same guidelines and most that are global and if you look at the pay policies of JPMorgan Chase, we already follow them We don't have parachutes or change of control or special severance package. Already pay people substantial amount of their compensation in deferred comp and stock, stock or options. You already have core back on bad behavior and things like that. We already asked the senior people at the company in the operating committee and the executive committee to keep a lot of stock that they get issued to them as long as they have their jobs so they have substantial shares over time. We always look at long‐term sustained performance realizing that the rising tide raises all boats and the lower tide sinks all boat and we look at what is best for JPMorgan, that includes recruiting, how they treat clients and systems and not just all financial results. We maintain those standards and we think we have done it right and fair. We will continue what we are
doing. Industries have to pay for performance over time and we are committed to treat each individual properly.: Great. I know you are probably tired of this question, but you have mentioned in the past that you have a preference for‐‐ correct me if I'm wrong, share re‐purchases over dividends and you seem to go out of your way to mention the kind of dividend outlook and I didn't hear anything about buybacks. : Let me mention one thing about comp and we call back the operating committee and we can call back any region from the operating committee member, and we want to get clarity instead of getting asked a lot of questions. We wanted to give clarity. Shareholders rely on it and the first goal became to protect the company, but once we're convinced that's gone, you know, we're going to obviously want to re‐establish the dividend. We always said that stock buyback and that's the thing. We buy back when we think it's cheap or it's the best thing to do with our capital and we won't buy back if we think the stock is expensive or better use for the capital. It will be unrelated to dividend and dividend is a long‐term decision you should make to the shareholders.: Great. Thank you very much Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Moshe Orrinbach: Thanks. I was wondering as we look at the overall numbers, they can be a little confusing as to any pointing to the economic outlook, but as you kind of get the data firsthand from people who are running the businesses that are dealing with the small business‐‐ smaller businesses, mid‐sized businesses and consumers, I mean, what does it tell but economic outlook? : Look, you actually see what we see, and there seems to be stability in the environment in terms of consumer spending, confidence, in terms of delinquencies, a little bit of improvement in home price. Those are actual data and that can be forming the base of a recovery or not. We won't spend a lot of time guessing about that. And the only thing I say anecdotally and you get very consistently now is that the business, small business, middle market, large corporate, they are kind of poised and waiting to see that the recovery is taking whole because they do have plans, expansion plans and growth plans and to me it would be a good sign if that's true because maybe people get a little more comfortable and start taking a little more risk and making more investment in the future.: Thanks. Just a somewhat related, you made a lot of announcements in new products in the like in the card business recently. Can you talk a little bit about how, you know, aggressive you are willing to be from a competitive standpoint there given the weakness‐‐ relative weakness of some of your exit percent other businesses that you see where you can do the same sort of thing? : The first thing is to get our own model right, our own products and
services and make sure we adjust to the new laws and things like that. You know, if we think we have that right, yeah, we could be very aggressive in the market in time. We're willing to make adjustments to our business once we're convinced that we're building the right kind of business. So our marketing budget so far for 2010 in card is up by several hundred million dollars. It's not down. We'll spend that money when we actually feel we're going to get a good return on it.: Are there other businesses like that where you see a competitive opening here? : Almost every business is making investments. Investment bank is still making investments in Asia and prime broker and systems and you know, commercial bank is building in the west coast, California, Atlanta, Washington, Florida because of the WaMu acquisition. Retail is still opening branches. PSS is putting out products. Credit card is gaining products. Asset management is adding products and the bankers. Almost everywhere the underlying growth, banker, branches, systems, that we're still doing and we never stopped. : Next question. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Ed Nagarian with NSI group.: My questions have been asked and answered. Thank you very much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Nancy Bush with NAB Research.: Good morning, guys. A couple of questions. On the loan loss reserve, could you just clarify. If you build the reserve and then, let's say in 2010 or 2011 that you don't need a substantial portion of it, will it be available to repatriate into earnings? Because I heard both views from various regulators. : The answer is yes.: Okay. Secondly, the mortgage mods, you can tell us, you know, has the process smoothed at this point. What the pipe line looks like and how long do you think it looks to get the pipe line wholesaled? : The answer is just growing pains in these processes so we obviously have been very active in getting modifications started. I would say one of the things it is still early to see how effective people are in making their payments, which is obviously one important thing. But other issue is there is just people complying with all the terms of what is required under the government's guidelines in terms of amounts and types of documentation before it can be declared. So there's still I would call them growing pains in in the process. It's a little early to really say that it's stabilized and worked through. A lot of energy going into it. Adding a lot of people to it, us and across the industry.
: Mike, do you see this as something that is going to be permanent in the business? I mean, is this an emergency measure that two, three years from now will be over with, or is this something that you guys are going to have to live with and to some degree or another permanently? : The right way to look at it is it is so large, the problem in housing today that we hope to never see something like this ever again. We always had workouts in departments and re‐own departments and just trying delinquencies are ten times what you would have expected or losses ten times what you expected in any environment. Lit come down to a much more normal thing eventually and you will delinquencies and charge‐offs and foreclosures that are just much smaller than they are today. It will probably never be this big again in our lifetime.: Okay. That sort of leads into the final question. On the 1.1 billion addition to the allowance for prime mortgage and the purchase portfolio, in looking at that subgroup, was that mainly an issue, an unemployment issue, underwriting issue? Can you add any color to that? : The same factors that drove through subprime to our own prime portfolio, you know, causing dynamics that look the same in terms of weakness in prime. It's home price declines and stress of unemployment, even reaching up into a prime segment to put stress on losses.: Thank you. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Chris with Oppenheimer: My questions have been asked and answered. Thank you. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Phil‐‐ I'm sorry. Ron Mandell.: Anyway, in regard to the 1.1 billion reserve and carry over to your own portfolio where you haven't changed your‐‐ I guess, I'm just really wondering what the difference is. : It's no difference. Our guidance is, I think, 600 million in quarterly losses or five or six on that slide for prime which is consistent with what we've said before.: Right. I know it's consistent, I'm just wondering why the‐‐ : Why the difference?: Why there was a change in one and not in the other. : No particular explanation on that one. They're just different
portfolios, and we've been watching them and standards of looking at them are a little different between the two.: You know, if you exclude the 1.1 billion which hopefully is, you know, totally nonrecurring then, you know, your only other major reserve build was in the credit card portfolio and so two things related to that, number one, you know, if the loan loss "Nightly News" card portfolio is he going to be down in the fourth quarter because of the holiday you mentioned and then up again next year, you know, is this reserve build now for next year so there shouldn't be any further reserve building in the card portfolio? I guess I'm wonder hog you to think about those factors. : In general, you have the 12 months and nine months plus of stress and that's what your reserve is and what you said is true. And for that to be true you will have to see a little bit of improvement in charge‐offs if this stay where they are, we will are reserves and if they stay in reserves, we won't have much: I guess where I was going there shouldn't be much reserve building because you have taken care of cards going into next year and 1.1 billion is nonrecurring. And I hope you're right and I think you said, Jamie, in answer to an earlier question no normalized charge‐offs are in the 12 to $15 billion area and under‐‐ go ahead. : I was just sage that the 32 billion would come down a lot. : That's reserves too. : And one of the criticisms of this whole thing is a lot of the policies are all pro‐cyclical unless with the reserving. We went from 7 billion to the reserves to 32 and we will go way back down again and a predictable thing once you start seeing improvements. : We don't know where the level is going to bottom out at, but we hope it's less pro‐cyclical a regime once we get to that cycle anyway, and you mentioned that under current accounting you could bring it down. Do you see any changes being talked about on the regulatory or accounting front that would change your ability to bring down the reserve? : Well, not really but it comes to loan losses and if I was regulator I would change loan loss reservings to not be so pro‐cyclical and back out loan losses or petitions and reductions and more rational changes and they're going to do it F they do it, it might lead to higher on average reserves : With less volatility : That would be fine with us. : Okay. Thanks very much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of David Conrad with KBW.
: Good morning. Just a quick follow‐up question on mortgage banking. You had the negative revenue in the mortgage production, line item, just a little more color if you could on warranty reserve. I'm sure that is what was impacted in the number. : Right. That was going back to the point of making sure we're taking the P/L impact early of some of these problems, getting our re‐purchase reserves fully caught up and consistent across our portfolios was several 100 million impact that swallowed up the production revenues in the quarter. It won't run at that high level: Okay. Thank you. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Matthew Brothernel with Wells Fargo Securities.: Most of my questions have been asked and question. Let me ask an administrative question. What were your total debt restructurings at the end of the quarter? I know you put that in the 10‐Q. If you do, what are your expectations for those balances going forward? : I believe it's going to be flattish to where it was but you will see that in the Q, and that's a little bit of a function of you need more time for things to move into that categorization, like something like six months after the reserve is‐‐ after the restructuring is on the books and performing and then it will move, but we can follow up with you off‐line on that one.: Great. Thanks very much. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Matt O'Connor with Deutsche bank.: Good morning. If we look out over the next year or so and we continue to get this rebound in the economy in the market, you are going to have the combination of both very strong capital, which you talked about with respect to dividend and buyback, but also very, very strong liquidity. I guess I just wonder how you think about using those two from an offensive point of view because as we all think about normalized earnings many years out, there's a lot of stuff that will happen between now and then. Does it mean you are going to have very strong loan growth at some point? Does it mean your deposit rates can be much lower than others? Can you have liquidity? How do you think about that eventually working itself through the statement over time? : You know, it's different than anything we said already. We long had a management philosophy of running a company across all these businesses that are very strong liquidity and very strong capital, thinking of it as a strategic imperative. So not worried about the‐‐ where you can run your
returns if you lightened up on that because we're just not going to. We think we can always run these businesses for a good return with that kind of approach if we do everything else right with the kind of franchises we have and so really what that translates to is just the investments that Jim referred to earlier, the consistent. That advantage that Jamie referred to earlier. That advantage that we have is we don't get distracted in growing across all of our businesses across thick and thin and when things are a little thin, that's often the best time. That's why we're actively doing all the things to inject growth into the existing businesses and hopefully you see that in healthy growth when you go out two, three, five years across all these businesses. That's. That's where it translates into P/L.: On page 12 you reiterated the impact of quality balance sheet assets would reduce tier 1 standpoints and any talk about pushing that out or changing what the implementation would be and two, if we continue to get credit stabilizing and improving is there an opportunity to use reserves that you currently have versus having to increase reserves which I think is driving that 40 basis point drag? : You are cutting out a little bit, but I think in terms of the FAS1666, 167 stuff is expected January 1st, 2010, that's when we expect it. Obviously, until that data is here, the authorities there could just decide to delay, but that's not our expectation. For us, it's very manageable at these ratios.: Okay. Thank you. Operator: There are no further questions. : Great. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate you dialing in and look forward to next quarter. Operator: Thank you for participating in today's conference. You may now disconnect.