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JP Morgan Buys Washington Mutual

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)– JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) acquired Washington Mutual Inc. (WM) via a bidding process, after the thrift became the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, regulators announced late Thursday. “With insufficient liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound condition to transact business,” the Office of Thrift Supervision […]