Nissan, however, had much smaller unrealised profits than the average: its equivalent book value is around 19, 900.
Although almost all life insurers still have a cushion of unrealised profits on equities, it has been getting thinner.
Unrealised gains from their equity portfolios are fast disappearing as the stockmarket slides.
And even though they have been doing that in droves, most estimates show total unrealised home equity has continued to grow.
Dividends are low and the cushion of unrealised profits that banks could rely on has dwindled with the decline in the stockmarket.
Japan, for instance, managed to let its banks count some of their unrealised gains on their huge equity portfolios towards their capital.
As prices have sunk, unrealised profits on bond portfolios have probably evaporated.
This matters because banks have counted unrealised gains on equities towards the capital which, under international standards, they must set aside against lending.
Beneath all this is the peculiar British combination of bragging and bewilderment, an air of expectations great but unmet and of unrealised specialness.
In order to tap into this unrealised potential, the IBM team came up with software that works by using geometrical patterns to represent words.
The possibility of an all-English final at the Nordbank Arena in Hamburg went unrealised after Atletico's away-goals victory over Liverpool in the other semi-final.
To some extent, the banks have been able to disguise their ills because of the unrealised equity gains that they have on their balance sheets.
This matters more and more because Japan is due to introduce market-value-based accounting this year meaning that unrealised securities losses will start being deducted from their capital.
Many companies have large, unrealised losses in their equity portfolios.
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Moreover, it would run smack into what appears to be a gap in Softbank's strategy: most of his unrealised gains are in America, but Softbank is listed in Japan.
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Japanese companies, which have been net sellers of equities for the past six years or so, are still selling them in order to avoid further unrealised losses on their equity portfolios.
And since Mitsubishi is a young company spun off from Mitsubishi Heavy in 1970, it has fewer unrealised gains on its assets than Nissan, which was established before the second world war.
In the bubble era, with unrealised gains on securities portfolios acting as a buffer, and eager bankers a mere phone call away, companies had few incentives to keep more than minimal financial accounts.
The government is also proposing to strengthen banks by buying preference shares and subordinated debt and by approving some new accounting tricks, such as not deducting unrealised losses on equities from banks' capital.
The Times of India , one of the most widely circulated dailes, says from hunger to illiteracy, disease to deprivation, superstition to strife, the history of India's freedom has been one of unrealised promise.
Low interest rates, a mass cancellation of policies (which eats into cashflow) and a sinking stockmarket (which eats into unrealised gains on their equity portfolios), already mean that they are suffering a severe shortage of available funds.
Throw in deregulation, which gives depositors other places to place their cash, and a weak share market, which eats away at banks' unrealised gains on their equity portfolios and thus at their capital, and it is clear that many banks are in dire straits.
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