With all the speculation over financial reform swirling, JP Morgan may be wise to wait and see the new rules before raising the yield.

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On Wednesday, a Bloomberg survey said that the six largest U.S. banks, including JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, may post an 11% drop in first-quarter profit, threatening a rally that pushed bank stocks 19% higher this year.

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Roped in together through the various trade channels, the worlds industrial base is now, even in the best of cases, barely ekeing out growth, as can be seen in the fact that the JP Morgan global index registered a mere 50.6 in May, only marginally above the 50 no change level.

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This is why if Mark Moskowitz at JP Morgan is correct that Apple will not launch a tv until 2014, consumers may not wait.

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With neither lead underwriters JP Morgan ( JPM) nor Morgan Stanley ( MS) commenting on the situation we may never know what the final agreement entails.

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