Last year during the same quarter, the company posted a net loss of $291 million.
Net sales dropped to $194.8 million, down from $233.1 million during the same quarter last year.
Yet the banks paid out a combined $13.7 billion in compensation during the same quarter.
Revenue for the period climbed to $9.98 billion, from $9.27 billion during the same quarter last year.
There were 140,151 stops from October through December, up from 109,855 during the same quarter a year earlier.
During the first quarter, A.I.G. said it lost $4.35 billion, or $1.98 a share, compared with $7.81 billion, or $3.09 a share, during the same quarter last year.
The company showed a first-quarter profit of $238 million, down nearly 31percentt from the $349 million it recorded during the same quarter last year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost more than 17percentt during the same quarter, while the pension fund lost 7.6percentthethe spokesman, Bernard Kavaler, said.
At Expedia during the same quarter, the company booked 2.8 million merchant hotel room nights and showed income from operations of $42 million.
The number of foreclosures in the first quarter of 2008 jumped to 73, compared with 47 during the same quarter last year.
A year ago during the same quarter leading up to the end of October, the Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report estimated BlackBerry's share at 8.5 percent.
