{"id":71794,"date":"2026-04-15T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/big-us-banks-rake-in-near-50bn-profit-as-iran-war-shakes-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:55:12","slug":"big-us-banks-rake-in-near-50bn-profit-as-iran-war-shakes-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/big-us-banks-rake-in-near-50bn-profit-as-iran-war-shakes-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Big US banks rake in near $50bn profit as Iran war shakes markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six lenders, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan report jump in first-quarter earnings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/15\/stock-markets-iran-war-peace-deal-reeves-bessent-imf-business-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Big US banks raked in nearly $50bn (\u00a337bn) worth of profits in the first three months of the year, as they benefited from stock market turbulence triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street\u2019s largest lenders have reported a jump in first-quarter earnings, reflecting the surge in demand for trading services as investors dumped risky stocks and bonds and sought safer havens for their cash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/15\/big-us-banks-profit-iran-war-markets-morgan-stanley-jp-morgan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six lenders, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan report jump in first-quarter earnings Business live \u2013 latest updates Big US banks raked in nearly $50bn (\u00a337bn) worth of profits in the first three months of the year, as they benefited from stock market turbulence triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran. Wall &#8230; <a title=\"Big US banks rake in near $50bn profit as Iran war shakes markets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/big-us-banks-rake-in-near-50bn-profit-as-iran-war-shakes-markets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Big US banks rake in near $50bn profit as Iran war shakes markets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}