While there are recent signs that some large institutional investors are warming again to high-risk real-estate funds, many of the biggest remain sour on them after suffering big write-downs.
The former number is big because banks are thriving in the low-interest rate environment, but the latter is small or minus because it comes after the write-offs of bad loans.
His victory was challenged after newspapers reported that he could not read or write - but after he passed a basic literacy test, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled that he could take up his seat.
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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.
Once the hoopla dies down, Goldman Sachs will move on and Greg Smith - no doubt after clinching a deal to write a book that will Blow The Lid Off What We Knew Anyway - will too.
Italy's Generali cut its dividend 56% after taking large write-downs on its Greek bond portfolio and other assets.
After a fan write-in campaign, DC revised the issue numbers to reflect the original starting date of the title, resulting in the next issue being numbered 600.
Lisa Murkowski, who is running a write-in campaign after losing in the Republican primary to Mr. Miller.
Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had been the only one, but was forced to resign her post when she decided to run as a write-in candidate after losing her GOP primary.
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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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Aurore started to write after the break-up of her marriage to Baron Casimir Dudevant with whom she had two children: Maurice, in 1823, and Solange in 1828.
Now--after companies like Bank of America, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have issued billions of dollars in write-downs because of their exposure to mortgage-related securities--investors took the president's proposal Thursday to mean much the same thing.
Mobile phone giant Vodafone has suffered a half-year loss after being forced to write down the value of its operations in Italy and Spain.
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In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.
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.
In the December 2010 tax deal, Congress upped it to a 100% write-off for property acquired and put to use after Sept. 8th, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2011.
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After all, what developer would ever want to write a BlackBerry-only app again?
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She insisted a "big chunk" of the write-down had been due to what emerged about the company after the purchase.
I've just left Libya but have been below the radar for almost a week after an unexpected detour to a Tripoli hospital - I'll write about that little adventure in the next day or so.
Well, I think it's - I didn't write any songs in the old days, but after I met Leonard, he said why aren't you writing your own songs.
The only real difference, after all, between journalists and scholar-historians is that the former write the first draft of history, while the latter write the second.
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This is a company with off balance sheet debt that is over 60% of its net assets, write-downs that are over 25% of net assets, and after-tax profits that have been declining.
After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
At Bank of America, just to continue the example, fourth-quarter profits were down 95% over the previous year, after write offs for credit exposures, trading losses and rising credit costs.
Only after nearly half the votes were cast for some variation of the Sounders name via write-ins did the management team decide to name the club Seattle Sounders FC.
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Although a few big, well-known companies folded after the stockmarket fell, banks have in fact had to write off very few bad loans.
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