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Chase's Global Risk Management Unit Trips Swaps Cause $38 Mullion Fourth Quarter Hit

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Chase Manhattan Bank announced that its Global Risk Management (GRM) unit, which engages in currency and interest rate swaps as well as commodity and financial futures trading, incurred a loss of $38 million in the fourth quarter. Although officials there say that the positions, that soured have been reduced, another wrong turn could spell further losses.

Sources at thc bank say that the loss was the result of a number of trades, including a sterling swap that was established before Britain

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