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Dimon's comments Wednesday come as Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on products from Mexico and Canada by February 1 and a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports. Earlier Wednesday, Trump also teased the notion of imposing "taxes, tariffs, and sanctions" on Russia if it doesn't end its war against Ukraine.

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Dimon was benchmarked not only on the performance of the Wall Street giant, but the board's options for his successor.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon’s pay to $39 million for 2024, a year in which the biggest US bank beat its own record for the highest annual profit in the history of American banking.

The P/E ratio measures a company's stock price relative to its earnings per share. A high P/E suggests that a stock has become expensive compared to its earnings - a crucial fundamental for a company - and is potentially overvalued.

In the past Dimon, had warned tariffs have “unpredictable outcomes, you hurt your allies maybe more than you hurt anyone else"

The 8.3% boost in compensation – after JPMorgan reported record profit – puts Dimon’s pay on par with that of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon’s pay to $39 million for 2024, a year in which the biggest US bank beat its own record for the highest annual profit in the history of American banking.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, isn't shy about calling it how he sees it. In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday Morning, he spoke about income inequality, the state of the economy and what's broken – and what's not.