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NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co is due to place an increase in first-quarter acquire of more than 50 percent on Wednesday, as the slope weathers a slowdown in trading and less borrowers choice on assign bill loans.

Analysts on average wait the second-largest U.S. slope attained $1.16 a share, according to composer Reuters I/B/E/S. That compares with a year-earlier acquire of 74 cents a share.

JPMorgan is the prototypal of the field U.S. banks to inform earnings and is due to ordered an upbeat talk for the sector, display an transformation in assign calibre and exclusive moderate trading losses. The slope is closely watched for its panoptic danger to both consumer and assets banking.

A bounteous utility for the reinforced action is due to be JPMorgan's assign bill business, which lost $303 meg in the prototypal lodge of 2010, but seems to be motion around. In the fourth quarter, it attained $1.3 billion.

"It's not same assign is strange correct now, but we're agitated the correct artefact pretty quickly," Jeff Harte, a slope shrink at Sandler O'Neill, said in an interview on Tuesday.

JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is ofttimes praised for avoiding the worst of the assign manducate finished careful venture direction in immobile income trading. But the slope suffered bounteous losses from mortgage loans and other types of consumer credit.

The mortgage losses haw move for some time, but assign bill disposition appears to be rising and it was the bank's second most juicy organisation in the fourth quarter. Financial restrictive improve haw crimp forthcoming profits in this business.

Investment banking was the most juicy area, with a $1.5 1000000000 profit. The playing was thickened in the prototypal quarter, analysts said.

European debt fears, high lubricator prices and the thermonuclear crisis in Japan hit made for a overstrung trading environment. With the Dodd-Frank financial improve accumulation limiting a bank's ability to ingest its own capital to change for profit, Wall Street income and trading revenues are likely to hit slipped.

JPMorgan beefed up its commodities trading with the acquisition of the non-U.S. assets of RBS Sempra terminal year. Strength in that playing could support dampen imperfectness elsewhere, Sandler O'Neill's author said.

JPMorgan's assets banking playing should also goodness from accumulated joint debt issuance and it is using its equilibrise artefact to win assets banking business, said Apostle Miller, a slope shrink at FBR Capital Markets.

"They've been very beatific at attractive advantage of the liquidity in the system," said Miller.

JPMorgan attracted tending terminal period when it agreed to be the exclusive slope making the initial commitment on a $20 1000000000 denture loan to support direction AT&T Inc's acquisition of T-Mobile army from Deutsche Telekom AG.

The analysts with the best track record are forecasting earnings of $1.17 a share, according to composer Reuters StarMine SmartEstimate.

JPMorgan shares hit risen nearly 8 percent over the instruction of the quarter.

(Reporting by Clare Baldwin; editing by Dan Wilchins)

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