Originally, regulators disagreed, saying that expected losses should be counted in the asset base.
The governing body of English rugby sets aside money for three years to cover expected losses in the fourth.
Like many internet companies, it has yet to make a profit but it is making smaller than expected losses.
"We're urging all institutions to make sure their reserves are large enough to cover expected losses, " the FDIC's Bair said Thursday.
But banks have kept precious little data about expected losses after default.
Economic-capital models, which calculate the use of capital based on assumptions about expected losses, will be more widely used to set bankers' pay in future.
Because they have counted this as a cost, they say that minimum capital requirements should be calculated on the basis of credit-card assets net of expected losses.
And the key there as I see it is that local banks are cutting back on their willingness to lend because of their expected losses on commercial real estate.
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While the fourth quarter of 2011 marked wider than expected losses for U.S. Steel with low realized steel prices and a slump in demand, Q1 results should easily show sequential improvement.
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Late Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service said it might downgrade Ambac's all-important triple-A financial-strength credit rating after the company forecast significantly higher-than-expected losses from insuring credit derivatives, many of them tied to subprime mortgages.
Sony shares sagged Wednesday morning after it announced worse-than-expected losses in its fiscal third quarter and drastically cut its year-end forecast, a day after announcing that Sir Howard Stringer will step down as CEO April 1.
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Many of these small savers have taken to the streets to protest their expected losses in recent months, claiming they were misled into believing that that they were buying low-risk savings products, not risky bonds or shares.
Late Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service said it might downgrade Ambac's (nyse: ABK - news - people ) all-important triple-A financial-strength credit rating after the company forecast significantly higher-than-expected losses from insuring credit derivatives, many of them tied to subprime mortgages.
That starts with creating a consumer-credit culture in the first place, plus many of the things lenders take for granted in North America, like individual credit histories, and finely tuned risk-based pricing where the riskiest customers pay the highest interest rates, to cover expected losses.
Local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar said news of the expected job losses were "extremely disappointing".
Stocks gained in spite of the U.S. Labor Department's report of greater than expected job losses in September.
Both Nokia and Research in Motion have expected earnings losses.
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Japan is one step closer to a full-blown financial crisis, after Tokyo shares fell to 18-year lows Feb. 5 and are expected extend losses for the fourth straight day Feb. 6.
Harry Hanley, Unison branch secretary, said he expected the job losses to be greater than predicted.
Mr Orcel is in the process of overhauling the investment business, with 2, 000 job losses expected.
Some goods news though: Wall Street expected greater revenue losses with EPS closer to 20 cents.
The FDIC, like other bank regulators, has been encouraging banks to raise capital levels to buffer against the expected rise in losses and write-downs.
It reports fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, with losses expected to continue.
The negative corollary to these bailouts is that certain institutions have not been allowed to fail, and, those who knowingly took certain risks are no longer expected to take losses when those risks go bad.
The Solyndra case represents less than 2% of total loan commitments made by DOE, and will be easily covered by a capitalization of eight to ten times larger than any ultimate losses expected following the bankruptcy proceedings.
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Which is why Tesco is agreeing with City analysts that in the current year, group profits will barely increase at all, even with further growth in Asia and Eastern Europe, and an expected reduction in losses at the group's controversial US business, Fresh and Easy.
Most of the job losses are expected to be at RBS's offices in Edinburgh.
While the losses were expected, many investors seemed uncertain about the future health of Citigroup.
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