Two senior government officials said on Tuesday that they were now likely to encourage the banks to reveal a range of information, perhaps including the size of losses the banks could suffer under each of the stress assumptions.
"In this respect, the situation of Italian and Spanish banks looks much better in terms both of the size of losses and of the amount of capital raised," Ms. Federico said in a report.
"It just highlights the size of losses and problems with the international business and justifies Joyce's move to split the group," said David Liu, head of research at ATI Asset Management, which owns Qantas shares.
Looming large over the landscape is uncertainty about the size of losses still confronting banks and other financial institutions as they reckon with bad mortgages along with credit card debts, auto loans and the complex detritus of an era of loose money now over.
A significantly smaller computational burden thus motivates the loss of precision if the size of the loss can be estimated.
In its report, Fitch said that the size of the loss and this week's departure of crucial fixed-income executives raised questions about whether Merrill had adequate risk controls in place.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 (AP) — TiVo reported a quarterly loss Wednesday that was seven times the size of its loss a year ago, largely because of hefty legal costs associated with a high-stakes intellectual property patent dispute.
On the casualty side, this analysis often involves quantifying the probability of a loss event, called the frequency, and the size of that loss event, called the severity.
The write-off plunged the British company, known as B Sky B, into its largest quarterly loss, some $1.8 billion, for the period ended Dec. 31, nine times the size of its loss in the period a year earlier.
The size of the loss was not disclosed, and ChevronTexaco will not know how large its expense will be until Dynegy discloses the loss on the sale of the utility, a ChevronTexaco spokeswoman, Bonnie Chaikind, said.
The actual size of the loss, which will be used in sentencing, is still being calculated.
