JPMorgan Chase reports its highest quarterly profit ever, driven by a strong increase in trading and investment-banking activity. According to Bloomberg, second-quarter equities revenue rises 86% year over year to $6.03 billion, contributing to record profitability. Quartz similarly reports that equity markets revenue jumps 86% to about $6 billion. Quartz also says investment banking fees increase 30% and reach their highest level since 2021, indicating broader strength beyond equities trading. Yahoo Finance frames the results as a record profit supported by a trading surge, aligning with the other outlets’ focus on sharply higher stock-trading revenue. Across the reports, the central theme is that JPMorgan’s second-quarter performance improves markedly versus the prior year, with substantial growth in equities markets revenue and higher investment banking fees. The outlets describe the gains in present terms and provide the same broad figures for the size and magnitude of the revenue increases, though not all sources include additional detail beyond the headline profit and the major revenue components.