How To Use Write-down In A Sentence

  • While a 60 to 70 percent debt write-down seems extreme, it actually represents the market expectation, with most Greek debt now trading below 40 cents on the dollar.
  • It announced a loss of £2.8m, on a turnover of £13.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressed property market.
  • The write-downs were made all the greater because of the company's policy in previous years of treating start-up losses in these businesses as ‘assets’ and therefore capitalising them in the balance sheet.
  • Elsewhere, Murdoch's empire was hit by huge reorganisation costs and write-downs at its interactive media division, which includes the social networking website MySpace.
  • Wachovia Capital Markets analyst Douglas Sipkin believes that potential write-down following recent results could hurt Merrill's stock in the near term.
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  • The "bait and switch scheme," whereby by the FED would buy and warehouse (I was actually tempted to use the word whorehouse here) worth-less or worthless securities for financial entities at their booked carrying values to preclude write-down and forestall inevitable insolvency, will buy some time, but it doesn't fix anything. Financial Sense Newshour
  • Throw in the write-downs on Imperial Holly and Greencore has incurred €310m worth of exceptionals since 2000, a sum equivalent to almost 50% of its current market cap.
  • The Swiss life and nonlife insurer, which during the past two quarters had been hit by property asset write-downs and litigation costs that have dented its bottom line by about $500 million, said Wednesday that it will buy as many as 280 million new shares of China's third-largest life insurer, allowing Zurich Financial to maintain a 20% stake in the company. Zurich to Invest $420 Million in New China Life
  • And it may be forced to write-down the value of some of its magazine mastheads by an as yet unquantified amount.
  • Until now, Goldman's Level 3 assets -- or illiquid, write-down-prone securities -- weren't increasing as much as at rivals such as o buy back the nonbank, aed commercial-paper holdings of most of its retail clients likely will mean an overall restructuring of the frozen 33 billion Canadian dollars (US$32. 5 billion) nonbank ABCP market will be approved at an April 25 investor vote. Worry Returns, Boosting Treasurys
  • These included a €144 million write-down related to its investment in Italian unlisted holding company Telco, the financial vehicle that controls 24.5% of Telecom Italia SpA, and a €63 million write-down tied to its RCS Mediagroup SpA stake. Mediobanca's Net Sinks 84%
  • The IMF organises bailouts, the effects of which tend to minimise the costs of write-downs to the Western lenders, whilst extracting huge social costs in the country that was the original recipient of these loans.
  • If I did my math right, the gross security gains and I think it was just reiterated on the call was about $186 million and look at the MSR was another $28 million kind of net right up with the hedging gains on top of the valuation write-down. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development.
  • Having a similar effect as write-downs, share buy-backs also normally depress shareholders' equity proportionately far more than they depress earnings.
  • It announced a loss of £2.8m, on a turnover of £13.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressed property market.
  • Critics said mark-to-market accounting can exacerbate market swings, or be "procyclical," by forcing write-downs and emergency capital raising precisely at times when the economy is weakest. Regulators Draw Fire in Congress
  • The cost to Greece of default is relatively trivial compared to the cost to its creditors, mostly European banks uneager to take large write-downs. Everything's Fine With Greece, Just Ignore Some Facts

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