Merrill posts worst quarter in its history
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc reported about $16 billion in mortgage-related writedowns and adjustments on Thursday in the worst quarter of the company's history.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  shares  slumped to a nine-month low on Thursday after Merrill Lynch  lowered its rating on the stock, citing concerns over slowing  sales and a tough economic outlook.
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Merrill Lynch  is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost twice the company's original estimate, the New York Times reported on Friday.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  ousted  Chairman and Chief Executive Stan O'Neal on Tuesday, just days  after reporting the biggest quarterly loss in the company's  history.
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A slowing economy and a fresh batch of financial problems for banks put the major indexes on track for one of their worst yearly starts.
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Citigroup expects a $15 billion fourth-quarter  write-down at Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  and said  CDO/subprime exposures will decline by 50 percent to 70 percent  in aggregate.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Thursday said it took a $14.1 billion write-down in the fourth quarter on bad subprime mortgage bets plus other charges that have forced the brokerage to sell pieces of the company to foreign investors to raise capital.
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A good year ends with a bad quarter.
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Citigroup and Merrill Lynch each announced outside investments to shore up their ravaged balance sheets as Citigroup revealed a $18.1 billion write-down and a $9.83 billion fourth-quarter loss.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  on  Thursday said it took a $14.1 billion writedown and adjustments  in the fourth quarter as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the  brokerage to sell pieces of the company to foreign investors to  raise capital.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc's  move to accelerate vesting on previously awarded stock-based pay to employees could add to the huge fourth-quarter loss already expected by analysts.
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U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch &  Co. MER.N on Tuesday said third-quarter profit fell 8  percent, hurt by reduced trading in debt and equity markets,  which pushed revenue below expectations.
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Money managers are growing more pessimistic about the economy, corporate profits and US stock market returns, according to a monthly survey by Merrill Lynch released Tuesday.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Thursday said it took a $14.1 billion writedown and adjustments in the fourth quarter as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the brokerage to sell pieces of the company to foreign investors to raise capital.
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. stock market Thursday sustained its worst damage this year as major banks announced they were writing off billions of dollars in additional bad debt and signs emerged of even more trouble ahead for the financial and manufacturing sectors.
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Merrill Lynch  is expected to  suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage  investments, almost twice the company's original estimate, the  New York Times reported on Friday.
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Stocks dropped sharply on Thursday as a plunge in regional factory activity and a hefty loss at Merrill Lynch further clouded an increasingly dire view of the economy.