"They took a large bottom-line loss that will make them more profitable going forward, " Ticonderoga Securities analyst Chris Allen says of the firm's accelerated write-offs on sign-on bonuses.
It does not help that insurers have lost their appetite for insuring private equity, after some well-publicised write-downs on banks' private-equity portfolios.
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Ms. JAMIE PETERS (Equity Analyst, Morningstar): A lot of their write-downs at Citigroup and the others have talked about are actually write-down on very complicated securities backed by subprime mortgages.
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This tax provisions denies you a write-off on a security you buy back immediately.
These forced write-downs on securities that are intended to be held to maturity exacerbate the crisis.
Business also got a bung, in the form of a faster write-off on investments.
The bank takes a big write-down on assets, of 30% or 488 billion, reflecting their fair value.
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Italy's Generali cut its dividend 56% after taking large write-downs on its Greek bond portfolio and other assets.
Their handsome dividends (in the neighborhood of 5%) are largely sheltered by depreciation write-offs on the pipelines and machinery.
ADIA's investment will offset expected write-downs on subprime-related investments in the fourth quarter.
It believes that eurozone governments will have to take a hair cut and accept a write-down on their loans.
What is more, it is becoming ever clearer that the big banks face a wave of write-offs on their loans.
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Additionally, the company witnessed high inventory write-offs on account of increased production of its Haswell products prior to the qualification for sale.
Zoe Cruz lost her job at Morgan Stanley in December after that firm took billions of dollars worth of additional write-down on its mortgage holdings.
Write run-on sentences like Joyce or strikingly simple ones like Hemingway.
America's bail-out plan could even accelerate the pace of write-downs on structured credit if it sets a price below today's European valuations for nasty assets.
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Mr. Albanese isn't the only one with write-downs on his hands.
Even if they accept a huge write-down on their loans, servicing these will require a budget surplus (before interest payments) far bigger than this year's target of 2.5%.
The L.A. Times also had a good write-up on Pyros.
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The carmaker said the write-down on assets totalled 4.7bn euros.
Vodafone has also suffered serious write-downs on its businesses in Turkey and Ghana due to adverse changes in the macroeconomic assumptions the company made when sizing up acquisitions in the markets.
Take a huge write-off on its great new pill?
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Zoe Cruz lost her job at Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) in December after that firm took billions of dollars worth of additional write-down on its mortgage holdings.
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The re-write has focussed on two key areas - under what circumstances contracts can be handed out without competition and to what extent anti-competitive practices are allowed.
What else were they supposed to write on -- rocks, using carving tools?
Some people figure home-office write-offs based on the number of rooms in their home nine rooms, for example, works out to one-ninth of pro-rated expenses.
He even quietly condoned a write-in effort on his own behalf in the New Hampshire primary, which garnered a surprising number of votes and sent his stock upward.
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