Word: marks
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...they had to mark all of their loans down to what they would be worth, there would be no equity left in the company," says Ellman...
...equity companies on leveraged buyouts. As part of that business it lent money to the companies in such transactions. Now many of those deals look over-leveraged and ready to default. Those bonds are off 19% since the end of September. Citigroup holds $23 billion in leverage loans. So mark down that stake by $4.4 billion...
...these potential losses are based on the value that Citi is putting on its loans. And Citi has no obligation to write down all of the loans on its books. In fact, it recently said that it was going to stop taking so-called mark-to-market losses on an additional $80 billion in assets of its loan portfolio. So even if the value of its loans continues to fall, it may not have to take a hit to its equity. And as long as most of Citi's borrowers keep paying, as most are, Citi will be just fine...
...Lastly, the government could make some regulatory changes and hope for the best. First of all, get rid of mark-to-market accounting. Some observers say it doesn't make sense for loans that are performing, and the banks have no intention of selling anyway...
...cartels, which run a $25 billion-a-year trafficking industry in Mexico, have also intensified their campaign of co-opting police. Not that Mexico's woefully undertrained and underpaid cops are that hard a mark. But the relentless revelations of the breadth of the corruption - including allegations that officers under Mexico's Public Security Minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, were involved in high-profile kidnappings - seem to make a mockery of Calderón's efforts to stamp it out. "This is Calderón's Iraq," says Sergio Aguayo, a security expert at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City...