a view of the exterior of the jp morgan chase  co corporate headquarters in new york city may 20 2015 reutersmike segar july 14 reuters  jpmorgan chase  co reported a fall in secondquarter profit on thursday as americas largest bank set aside more money to cover potential losses in the face of growing risks of a recession the bank recorded 11 billion in loan loss provisions compared with last year when it released 3 billion from its reserves the four biggest us banks are expected to record 35 billion of loss provisions bracing for a sharp economic slowdown as the us federal reserve makes aggressive interest hikes to control runaway inflation read more  jamie dimon chief executive of jpmorgan warned that geopolitical tension high inflation waning consumer confidence the neverbeforeseen quantitative tightening and the war in ukraine are very likely to have negative consequences on the global economy sometime down the road the bank posted a profit of 86 billion or 276 per share for the quarter ended june 30 compared with 119 billion or 378 per share a year earlier analysts on average had expected earnings of 288 per share according to refinitiv it was not immediately clear if the reported numbers were comparable to estimates other large us banks including citigroup and wells fargo  morgan stanley will report results this week while goldman sachs and bank of america bacn will round out big bank earnings season next week analysts have forecast a sharp decline in secondquarter earnings from a year ago when banks released loan loss reserves and benefited from a boom in dealmaking reporting by noor zainab hussain and niket nishant in bengaluru and david henry in new york editing by saumyadeb chakrabarty