rale

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Société Générale, the French bank that lost billions from a rogue trader, disclosed today that it had restated quarterly income figures for last year to account for the unauthorized trades.

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  1. noun An abnormal respiratory sound characterized by fine crackles.

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  • Société Générale, the French bank that lost billions from a rogue trader, disclosed today that it had restated quarterly income figures for last year to account for the unauthorized trades. —  Floyd Norris
  • Société Générale, a favorite market strategist among Investment Postcards 'readers, said: —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The news that a rogue trader at Société Générale, the French bank, somehow ran up a 4.9 billion euro loss in stock index futures without management noticing is provoking incredulity at the World Economic Forum here. —  Floyd Norris
  • When AIG received U.S. taxpayer dollars to prevent them from going into bankruptcy, they put $6.9 billion in a brown paper bag and gave it to gamblers at Société Générale -- in France. —  FRAMESHOP
  • The top three recipients are Société Générale, at $11 billion; Goldman Sachs, at $8.1 billion; and Deustche Bank, at $5.4 billion. —  Cincinnati.Com - All Local News
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  1. French râle, from râler, to make a rattling sound in the throat, from Old French racler, to scrape, rattle; see raclette.
 

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