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Additionally, from 2002 to 2007, the SEC reports that Merrill would charge customers with undisclosed mark-ups and mark-downs by "filling customer orders at prices less favorable to the customer than the prices at which Merrill purchased or sold the securities in the market."

Merrill Paying Millions To Settle SEC Fraud Charges The Huffington Post 2011

It could be that French banks, with more than a little help from the French government, would be able to withstand major mark-downs in the value of their Greek, Portuguese and Irish assets.

France Will Struggle to Keep Core Status Alen Mattich 2011

Alaska Air Group, parent of Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, said hedge mark-downs and fleet-transition items trimmed its third-quarter profit to $77.5 million, or $2.12 a share, from year-earlier profit of $122.4 million, or $3.32 a share.

Hedge Moves Hamper Southwest, Alaska Air Susan Carey 2011

If all else fails and you see your competitor "Jim" about to snag a big raise for closing the Farquahr Fastener deal, drop by your local Victoria's Secret outlet for final mark-downs on intimate apparel.

Biz One-Upmanship 101 Con Chapman 2011

"It's a stable result, with relatively modest mark-downs given the tough market outlook," said Evli Bank analyst Magnus Axen

Investor net asset value falls 26% 2009

The bank said that in the quarter, it took a hit of €2.6 billion related to investment mark-downs, and as a result had written down in full the value of its mezzanine collateralized debt obligation notes, or CDOs.

KBC Gets $2.6 Billion in Capital 2009

Alas, through no miscalculation of his own, the mark-downs on Wall Street created a cash-crunch for Bernie's faithful and redemptions he could not meet, not unlike a run on a bank, which is also a kind of Ponzi scheme that lends 2000% more than it has in assets and cooks its books before being bailed out by the taxpayer in the name of staving off a new Great Depression (think Bank of America)

Daniel Bruno Sanz: Madoff the God of Plunder 2009

However, he is concerned that the company's merchant banking losses and negative mark-downs due to credit-spread tightening will drag Morgan Stanley's first-quarter results well below the consensus estimates.

Analysts Downgrade Goldman, Morgan Shares 2009

The seventy to ninety present mark-downs cut into the cost of innovation and production.

Alex Geana: Fashion Night Out: One Heck of a Block Party 2009

To date we have poured $160 billion into AIG -- this while others see the value of their homes cut in half, the better part of their 401 (k) s wiped out, their government services significantly reduced, and other lending institutions diligently try to work out past due credits, taking significant mark-downs and extending due dates to keep industries and corporations alive.

Raymond J. Learsy: Billions for AIG to Protect the Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley 2009