Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Banks still underestimating scope of crisis

Certain American banks, it appears, didn't get a very important memo: Losses tend to rise, not fall, during a recession.The Wall Street Journal reports some large banks, contrary to what seems logical in an economic slowdown caused by massive amounts of bad debt, aren't raising loan-loss reserves as fast as their loans are souring.

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