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Home 2. Markets 3. The Tell The Tell Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan is sitting on about $500 billion in cash, waiting to invest in higher rates Last Updated: June 14, 2021 at 6:15 p.m. ET First Published: June 14, 2021 at 3:53 p.m. ET By Joy Wiltermuth Comments 'I do expect you will see higher rates and more inflation today,' Dimon says [im-353775] JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon helms the biggest U.S. bank by assets. Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images * Email icon * Facebook icon * Twitter icon * Linkedin icon * Flipboard icon * Print icon * Resize icon Referenced Symbols Advertisement [ ] JPM -1.70% TMUBMUSD10Y 1.498% COMP +0.74% SPX +0.18% DJIA -0.25% Article corrected throughout to reflect Jamie Dimon said the bank has $500 billion in cash, not $500 million, per an incorrect transcript. Banking giant JPMorgan has been sitting on about a half-trillion-dollar stockpile of cash, waiting to invest in higher rates in the coming months, instead of buying Treasurys or other securities, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said Monday at a virtual banking conference. "We do expect rates to stay low for a bit longer; the Fed has told us that," Dimon, the longtime boss of JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPM, -1.70% said Monday at the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financial Services Conference, per an initial transcript of the talk. But "if you look at our balance sheet, we have like $500 billion in cash and we've actually been stockpiling more and more cash waiting for [an] opportunity to invest in higher rates," Dimon said. The plan aims to position the bank to "benefit from rising rates both from the short end and the long run and long rates," he said, adding that it will hinge "on the decision we make over the next six to nine months." "But I do expect you are going to see higher rates and more inflation today." The yield on the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.498% rose about 3.7 basis points on Monday to 1.499%, well off the 1.749% high for the year hit in March, but still up about 60 basis points on the year, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Federal Reserve's rate-setting gathers for two days this week, starting Tuesday, with investors awaiting a policy update Wednesday to see how the central bank is grappling with evidence of surging inflation in recent months, but also slack in the job market during the COVID pandemic recovery. Check out: Inflation scare? Check out this chart before freaking out Investors also will be listening to any hints of change in terms of the Fed's outlook for rates and around future plans for its monthly asset purchases, viewed as a first step to tightening its easy-monetary stance. Read: Paul Tudor Jones sees 'green light to bet heavily on every inflation trade' if Fed ignores price pressures Wednesday The U.S. central bank at present buys about $80 billion of Treasurys and $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month, while keeping benchmark interest rates between 0% and 0.25%. But while inflation has been surprisingly hot, many economists and strategists expect the Fed to wait until the fall to see how the labor market responds to the inflation spike. Read: Don't be fooled by some of the hawkish sounds coming out of the Fed this week Stocks finished mostly higher Monday ahead of the Fed update, with the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.74% and the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.18% closing at fresh records and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.25% ending off the day's lows. Read Next Read full story Read Next Barron's: 21 Stocks for the Next Phase of the Oil Rebound Goldman Sachs offers up how to play the sector going forward. 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