No way. And there I was about to jump from the window dressed in my suit. Lucky I live on the ground floor hey.
Now the question for ML's is what more is to come? Two scenarios as far as I can see -
1. They have been ultra conservative and have written off everything bar the photocopier and the water cooler; or
2. There is more sitting on or off balance sheet which will come back to haunt them (& us, goddam them) at some future point.
Please let some sanity have prevailed and it be 1!! Otherwise I will most definitely be leaping from my window into the flower bed. Man and I just had my suit dry cleaned. Oh brother...
And ML is going to release an updated report this morning saying that the actual writedown of $7.9b exceeded expectations but not fears and that earnings from operations were better than expected.No why wasn't that reported at the original report?