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Company Industry Country Year Fiscal quarter Report date Nominal loss (billion) USD FX rate at period end [36] USD equivalent loss (billion) USD inflation to June 2011 [37] USD real loss (billion) 1: American International Group (AIG) Insurance Financial services United States: 2008: 4Q: 31 December 2008: $61.66 [66] 1: $61.66: 7.37%: $66.2 2 ...
After becoming a public company in August 2005, it was revealed that Phillip R. Bennett, the company's CEO and chairman, had concealed $430m of bad debts. Its underwriters were Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America Corp. The company entered Chapter 11 and Bennett was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Bear Stearns: United ...
Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos were program trading and illiquidity, both of which fueled the vicious decline for the ...
The largest civil-damage award in business history was first rendered in 1985 in the case of v. Pennzoil. However, it was far from certain that the $10.53 billion judgment would stand on appeal
March 2, 2009: AIG reports that it has lost $62 billion in the fourth quarter, which is the largest quarterly loss in corporate history. The government agrees to an additional $30 billion bailout ...
The largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history also made 2008 a record year in terms of assets, with Lehman's size—$691 billion (~$960 billion in 2023) in assets—alone surpassing all past annual totals. [60] The year also saw the ninth-biggest bankruptcy, with the failure of IndyMac Bank. [61]
Company Business Type Loss (Billion USD) References UBS: bank $37.7 bln [1] [2] [3] Citigroup: bank $39.1 bln [4] [5] [6] Merrill Lynch: investment bank $29.1 bln [7] [8] [9] Morgan Stanley: investment bank $11.5 bln [10] [11] [12] Crédit Agricole: bank $4.8 bln [13] HSBC: bank $20.4 bln [14] [15] [16] Bank of America: bank $7.95 bln [17] [18 ...
The company expects to see up to a $60 million loss for the first quarter 2007. [147] August 7: Numerous quantitative long/short equity hedge funds suddenly begin experiencing unprecedented losses as a result of what is believed to be liquidations by some managers eager to access cash during the liquidity crisis. It highlights one of the first ...