Word: bankes
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Companies, for their part, can be oblivious. "I was talking to a senior executive at a major bank, and he was very proud about their generous severance package," says Columbia's Brockner. "I said, 'That's great. What have you done for the people who have remained?' It was a conversation-ending question." The anguish may be real, but good luck talking about...
...Bank of America's shares have similarly traded down since it landed its own loan guarantee deal from the government. In that bank's deal, the government agreed to pick up nearly $100 billion in losses. That hasn't stopped the bleeding at Bank of America, either. Bank of America stock, like Citigroup's, has continued to fall. The company's shares closed on Friday at $6.53, down from $7.18 in mid-January when it announced its deal with the government...
...clear why the loan guarantees are doing so little to shore up confidence in the two banks. Some say it's because investors fear the problems at the banks are larger than the guarantees they received. What's more, both guarantees involve the two banks taking more losses before the government insurance kicks in. In Citigroup's case, the bank will have to swallow $29 billion more in bad loans before it is protected from further losses...
Nonetheless, the idea of new loan guarantees as the solution to fix the banking crisis appears to be gaining momentum in Washington and abroad. Earlier in the week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner seemed to have struck a deal between the FDIC and the Federal Reserve to roll out a new phase of the bank bailout plan that would include both guarantees and direct asset purchases. The latter plan is favored by the FDIC and is often called the "bad bank" approach, because the government would set up an institution to buy up all the loans or bonds that are backed...
...Friday, reports surfaced that Geithner was thinking about shelving the bad bank approach for now, and just moving forward with the loan guarantee program. If it does, Washington officials would not be alone. Last week, Britain rolled out its own loan guarantee program as part of that country's effort to help its struggling banks...