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The Associated Press Deere Posts 4Q Loss On Big Writedowns; Beat Views Wall Street Journal (DE) reported a big fiscal fourth-quarter loss from charges in its landscaping ...  - RTT News all 232 news articles » View post: Deere Posts 4Q Loss On Big Writedowns; Beat Views - Wall Street Journal Technorati Tags: associated, bare-minimum, farm-machinery, its-landscaping, news-articles, ...

... VW will reportedly purchase 49 percent of Porsche by year-end for 3.9 billion euros ($5.8 billion US), with hopes of obtaining the outstanding Porsche shares by 2011.Porsche suffers $6.6B loss thanks to VW share writedowns originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Moody’s is estimating that banks still have about $336B in write-downs to take next year, with $186B of that stemming from commercial real estate. While residential real estate is widely assumed to have peaked, and is spread across a large number of banks, commercial real estate losses remain on the back burner and are concentrated amongst a

... 5.0 173.6 Asset impairments and other writedowns - 0.2 0.2 Operating loss ... 9.4 205.1 Asset impairments and other writedowns - 50.1 50.1 Operating ...

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... 9. A Nokia Siemens spokesman confirmed that the letter had be sent, according to Reuters. Analysts have openly speculated about the companies' long-term commitments to Nokia Siemens after both reported large writedowns related to the joint venture. Nokia reported a $1.35 billion writedown of its stake in NSN, and Siemens' writedown totalled $2.39 billion. In the wake of weak performance ...

Excellent post on the economy and saving it (or not) by Edward Harrison at Credit Writedowns. (My yellow highlighting) – Ilene Stop the madness now! This is a post I ... happy picture up at the great blog New Deal 2.0 where he now writes.  Earlier, when Credit Writedowns was hosted at Blogger, he used a picture best described as a mug shot in his profile, but he has changed that one ...

... has risen 26 percent this year after banks worldwide recorded more than $1.7 trillion in writedowns and losses and governments committed about $12 trillion to shore up economies. "The ... 39;Brink of Failure' Dubai World's more than 70 creditors face the prospect of writedowns on as much as $60 billion of debt if they haven't unloaded their holdings and the state-owned company ...

... told Thomson Reuters LPC. But the numbers pale in comparison to the $2.8 trillion in writedowns the International Monetary Fund estimates US and European lenders will have made between 2007 and ... Reuters. Bank exposure The Dubai news raised fears that some major banks could face yet more writedowns in addition to those already triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008. US bank debt and ...

... Index combines all sub-indices, encompasses both FRM and hybrid ARM collateralRunning fixed couponCDS trading convention: Seller pays applicable percentage of Interest & Principal Shortfalls as well as writedowns and implied writedowns on swap notionalRunning fixed coupon: Set by the dealers during the roll process prior to launch dateUpfront PV exchange of the observed market value of risk ...

... market expectations”—analysts expect full-year EBITDA to be in the region of £64 million (via Reuters). For 2008, the company made a £429 million loss after huge writedowns on the value of its portfolio. Johnston staff should beware: the company says it needs to save another £50 million in this financial year. You could be forgiven for thinking the huge cost cuts across the ...

... represent conventional wisdom there. And that means the officialdom has gained perilous little insight from this disaster.Henry Blodget (somebody who knows about bubbles; he was a cheerleader in the dot.com era) Interest Rate Roundup (short and angry) Financial Post / National Post Jesse's Café Américain Seeking Alpha Agnes Crane at Reuters The Big Picture Market Talk Credit Writedowns

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Credit Writedowns has a populist interpretation of the latest Boom-Bust cycle. It’s an interesting analysis of the way the US economy is working. Bono writes for the NY Times about Rebranding America. He praises Barack Obama suggesting a different reason to believe that the peace prize is deserved and describes what he believes to be the world’s hope for the US. IsMyBlogWorking.com ...