Merrill's Bombshell

Risk management comes under criticism after big writedown

October 28, 2007

Think the credit crisis is largely behind us? Think again. Only days after preannouncing third-quarter financial results that were surprisingly poor, Merrill Lynch hit the market with a second blow last Wednesday when it actually reported its quarterly numbers, which turned out to be far worse than the firm had initially thought.

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