Merrill rallies after fire sale
Merrill's decision to sell off $5.7bn of CDOs at 22 cents on the dollar galvanized its CDS price, which rallied 70bp. But does a writedown of this magnitude bode ill for other banks caught in the teeth of the credit crunch?
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