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Immediate Losers

Most of the costs/losses from this scheme will take time to determine, but there are some immediate losers today: small banks which held significant chuncks of FNM/FRE preferred stock. Forbes provides a good list of such banks here:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/08/bank-gse-exposure-markets-equity-md_0908markets16.html

Submitted by Chip Hanlon on Mon, 2008/09/08 - 1:59pm » 

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