Merrill's stock pay play could make Q4 loss bigger
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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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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.  may  look to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP to raise  capital after writing down $8.4 billion of assets last quarter,  some investors have said.
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Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost double its original estimate.
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Wall Street was higher after a better-than-expected profit report at Research in Motion and on word that Merrill Lynch might have lined up a  cash infusion from a Singapore fund.
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How should investors read the huge losses that Merrill may be taking?
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Merrill Lynch confirms that it has sold shares worth $4.4bn (Â£2.2bn) to the Singapore's investment arm.
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Merrill Lynch is expected to report today that it will add about $2.5 billion more to the $5 billion in write-downs it has already announced, a person briefed on the situation said.
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Stocks dropped sharply on Wednesday as a steep quarterly loss at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.  and executives' warnings about possible future problems suggested the worst of the credit crisis may not be over.
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Stock futures fell on Wednesday as Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc  reported its first quarterly net loss in nearly six years and as earnings by Amazon.com Inc  disappointed some investors.
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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 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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Depending on what investors are expecting, layoffs can boost a stock.
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S&P 500 and Dow industrials futures declined on Thursday as Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  reported a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss because of subprime mortgage-related problems.
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Citigroup Inc , Merrill Lynch &  Co  and JPMorgan Chase & Co  may face larger  fourth-quarter write-offs of fixed-income securities than  previously expected, and Citigroup may have to slash its  dividend 40 percent to preserve capital, according to a Goldman  Sachs & Co analyst.
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Stocks headed for a drop at the open on Friday, with financial shares likely to lead a sell-off, on fears that Merrill Lynch & Co  will incur mortgage-related losses of nearly twice what it forecast.
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While the bank predicted that it would make a profit in the fourth quarter, analysts were concerned about the likelihood of additional write-downs.
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NEW YORK -- Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. will proceed with a plan to sell about $800 million of bonds from a money-losing hedge fund run by Bear Stearns Cos. , a day after delaying a similar auction, people with knowledge of the offering said.