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Financial Planning Write-Down Countdown: March 27

By Stacy Schultz
March 27, 2008


Global credit losses due to the current financial crisis in the United States could reach $1.2 trillion with half of the losses coming from Wall Street, Goldman Sachs economists said in a note to investors on Monday.

Goldman expects financial institutions, including banks, hedge funds and brokers, to see losses of $460 billion, $120 billion of which it calculates as already having been written off by firms worldwide. It predicts half to come from residential home loans and 15%-20% to come from commercial mortgages. The rest will come from credit card loans, car loans and commercial and industry lending.

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