What’s the damage? Why banks are only starting to uncover their ...

Story date: 2007-11-03 05:59:00
Added on: 2007-11-05 13:38:27

Financial Times - The other big problem that makes it hard to calculate the “real” scale of mortgage-linked losses at banks is that it is often fiendishly hard to get an accurate value for mortgage-linked assets – and thus determine how much prices have fallen ...


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