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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Callum Jones in New York

JP Morgan chief warns of ‘complacency’ as markets look past credit downgrade

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Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan, in April last year. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

JP Morgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, warned on Monday that investors were being too complacent as markets shook off news that the US has lost its last triple-A credit rating amid fresh concern over the federal government’s burgeoning debt pile.

Credit ratings agency Moody’s dealt a blow to Washington on Friday when it stripped the US of its top-notch rating, downgrading the world’s largest economy by one notch to AA1 and become becoming the last of the big three agencies to drop its triple-A rating for the US.

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