Many of the write-downs will be made on loans originated by Countrywide Financial Corp.
Though the agencies do not have to suffer giant write-downs, they have paid a high price.
If IBM recorded major acquisition-related write-downs in the past five years, please remind us.
Some investors were looking for production, not write-downs, from both of these dry holes.
With such write-downs, Deutsche Bank alone would need at least 13 billion euros more in capitalization.
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These forced write-downs on securities that are intended to be held to maturity exacerbate the crisis.
Not surprisingly, asset write-downs are hard to find and require expertise in financial footnotes to identify.
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Merrill Lynch's latest fund-raising campaign comes as the embattled firm faces the threat of future write-downs.
Write-downs, as I have underscored in the past, are a clear sign of management failure.
We're going to see very big write-downs, like the billions of dollars we've heard about.
Lehman officially will report the loss on Monday along with additional details of its exposures and write-downs.
This would drag down the value of securities the monolines have guaranteed and increase the banks' write-downs.
Italy's Generali cut its dividend 56% after taking large write-downs on its Greek bond portfolio and other assets.
The pain is not over for Merrill but the risk of further big write-downs has been considerably reduced.
The resignation of Kvalheim is not being seen as a sign of further significant write-downs at Barclays Capital.
Clearly, the top funds do a better job of steering clear of investments that result in write-downs or write-offs.
The bank confirmed there was no likelihood of future write-downs, with exposure to further losses contained through risk management.
Write-downs are expected to spread to areas previously untainted by the subprime contagion.
Clients continued to flee and creditors refused to lend to the firm, which had suffered from major credit-related write-downs.
Chief executives at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch lost their jobs following billions of dollars in write-downs of mortgage-backed securities.
Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and UBS each have taken billions of dollars in write-downs.
ADIA's investment will offset expected write-downs on subprime-related investments in the fourth quarter.
The first is that in some extreme cases, when a large debt reduction is needed, orderly write-downs are necessary.
Banks continue to be under extreme pressure as talk of major write-downs grows.
They don't like mark-to-market accounting, which has forced billions of dollars in write-downs.
Our recent article on Management Failures explains why investors need to beware large asset-write-downs like those incurred by NYX.
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These could take the form of tax write-off provisions for mortgage write-downs and a tax exemption on the shared appreciation.
The loss was mainly due to asset write-downs which Peugeot took to reflect the worsening state of Europe's car market.
"Huge write-downs caused the ouster of Stan O'Neal and Charles Prince, " speculated Peter Cardillo, a market analyst at Avalon Partners.
But the write-downs have continued, further pressuring capital as banks are forced to hold more in reserve against the distressed assets.
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