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...billion in loan losses in the pool it has insured. Citi also has $277 billion in other, nonhousing consumer loans, such as credit cards and student debt. Roubini estimates that about 17% of consumer loans will go unpaid nationwide. That translates into a $47 billion river of red ink. Add in everything else (commercial real estate, corporate loans), and Citigroup will have to swallow $106 billion in loan losses...
...still falling, many of those WaMu loans are going unpaid. JPMorgan has $105 billion in credit card loans, which could cost the company some $18 billion. And there is an additional $262 billion in corporate and commercial loans, which, according to Roubini, could tally $26 billion more in red ink. All told, it's a $97 billion loss for JPMorgan...
Czar or no czar, Obama has a genuine crisis boiling up in Detroit. Without major changes in the structure of the industry, the auto business is going to sink under mountainous waves of red ink. GM and Chrysler were in trouble even before the recession tore the bottom out of sales - and Ford's slightly better financial picture has been clouded by nearly $15 billion in losses last year...
...this point, none of the large global car companies have been able to avoid red ink. While the numbers may be worse as GM, Ford, and Chrysler. the viability of more stable firms with better balance sheets could be threatened if the depression in car sales stretches to the end of this year...
Amazon today unveiled Kindle 2, the next iteration of its pioneering e-reader. While fans clamoring for a radical overhaul will doubtless be disappointed - the first-gen Kindle was awkwardly designed and limited by its black-type-on-gray E-Ink display - Amazon has given the device a modest redesign that appears to address some of its more glaring problems. (See the top 10 gadgets...