Jag undrar hur många amerikanska banker likt Wachovia nedan har negativt eget kapital med dåliga lån större än tillgångarna? Processen fungerar lite som ringar på vattnet men det verkar som om den amerikanska finanskrisen sprider sig
Wachovia Faces Shallow Reserves but Says It Is Raising More Capital – washingtonpost.com
Wachovia’s stock fell to a 17-year low yesterday after an analyst warned that the commercial bank, which holds more deposits than any other in the Washington region, will face two years of losses arising from the credit crisis and a dramatic restatement of troubled assets on its books.The amount of the bank’s bad loans is growing faster than what the company is stashing away, and its reserves are markedly lower than the industry average, according to bank officials and regulators. Wachovia has enough money to cover about 84 percent of its non-performing loans, the bank said yesterday.
As fears mount over the health of the nation’s banking system, Wachovia will have to take exceptional steps to raise enough capital to meet its obligations, analysts said. This does not mean that the bank will fail anytime soon or that depositors face imminent danger.
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