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Morgan Stanley

May 16, 2008

HSBC in new sub-prime writedown

“I am encouraged by the way we have increased pre-tax profits in every one of the major countries in which we operate in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America”

Europe's biggest bank HSBC has written off $3.2bn in the first three months of 2008 as a result of its exposure to the US sub-prime market. via BBC

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