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New Crisis Threatens Healthy Banks

The Washington Post has a story on regional and healthy banks that I highly recommend. Essentially, we are past the first wave of writedowns and are moving into phase two where it won't be about derivatives and RMBS's as much as underlying…

Citigroup to slash jobs

Rumors are that Citigroup is also going to have another big writedown.Citigroup Inc., in the latest sign of bloodletting on Wall Street, is set this week to embark on an aggressive round of layoffs within its investment-banking division,…

22 Jun 2008: Latest Writedown News

The following are the links regarding the global credit crunch that have been recently added to the Credit Crisis Timeline. The full timeline is accessible here2008 06 09 Lehman Brothers to post $3 bln loss; sets $6 bln stock sale2008 06 09…

Banco Santander is very confident

Banco Santander, to date, has looked very robust as a financial institution in weathering the credit crisis. Despite significant exposure to bubble markets Spain and the UK, the company has not been required to write down a large amount of…

Fifth Third to raise $2 billion

and cut dividend. Regionals across the country are now suffering. The second leg down for financials has truly begun. I warned on Fifth Third this past Thursday in What's happening at Fifth Third? See new story here. Update: 9:19 EDT…

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