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To: Wade who wrote (9699)	3/10/2009 10:19:01 AM
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Five biggest U.S. banks are 'dead men walking' gata.org Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-03-10 02:56. Section: Daily Dispatches By Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo News Monday, March 9, 2009 news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON -- America's five largest banks, which already have received $145 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, still face potentially catastrophic losses from exotic investments if economic conditions substantially worsen, their latest financial reports show. Citibank, Bank of America, HSBC Bank USA, Wells Fargo Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase reported that their "current" net loss risks from derivatives -- insurance-like bets tied to a loan or other underlying asset -- surged to $587 billion as of Dec. 31. Buried in end-of-the-year regulatory reports that McClatchy has reviewed, the figures reflect a jump of 49 percent in just 90 days...more