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...loan losses. And banks don't have the option to pass those losses off on the new money they got from the government. They have to write down their common stockholders' equity first. And as that capital falls, so go the bank's shares. Some are alarmingly close to zero...
...take money from its shareholders' equity account to make up the difference. That's a big deal for a company's investors. If shareholders' equity is wiped out, their stock is effectively worthless. So investors watch this account intensely; if they think shareholders' equity is headed to zero, so too is a bank's stock...
...help out common shareholders. That's because holders of preferred shares can demand their money back before holders of common stock can. As a result, bank stocks continue to plummet. And no matter how much total capital a bank or any firm has, if its stock goes to zero, it can't really operate...
...Fiat cruises into the ownership roundabout, Daimler is clearly looking for the exit. The German automaker owns a 19.9% stake in Chrysler but wrote down the value of the shares to zero last autumn (how's that for pessimism). Negotiations begun by Cerberus back in September to purchase Daimler's stake broke down. However, Daimler could transfer the Chrysler shares to Fiat for non-cash consideration such as patents or technology. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...felt in towns whose skies weren't that dirty to begin with. Those that began with the very lowest levels still saw health benefits from small improvements. The evidence isn't yet there to determine whether those benefits would continue growing until the fine-particle pollution got down to zero; one of the cities closest to that, Albuquerque, N.M., still hovers around 5 micrograms per cubic meter. But at this point, it doesn't seem that the benefits taper off. "If it continues to follow what we've observed, it appears that there are health benefits down to very...