After receiving bailouts in 2008, the banks have struggled to jettison legacy assets, including billions of dollars of underperforming loans, that have weighed on financial performance.
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Now, bankers are facing the prospect of job cuts, as a slack market for deals begins to weigh on performance, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
Why Tesco bought it, as opposed to renting space to it, is not clear and the most recent publicly available accounts show a loss of nearly £5m on sales of £44m as new openings weighed on its performance.
News of derivatives issues of a couple of Chinese companies also weighed on market performance Wednesday.
It is true that ups and downs in neighbors' economies more cyclically affected by commodity prices also weighed on its performance as a consequence of their relevance as markets for Brazilian manufactured products.
Increased employee health care costs also weighed on its quarterly performance.
Among the assets that weighed on Berkshire's performance were its holdings in the housing sector, which include the homebuilder Clayton Homes, the carpet maker Shaw and Acme Brick.
Tougher comparatives and signs of slackening consumer confidence could well weigh on the performance, however, with both UBS and Execution Noble anticipating some slowdown in general merchandise trading.
