Summary
Losing a lot of money for shareholders is the surest way to end a career on Wall Street, as Merrill Lynch & Co.'s Stan O'Neal found out this month after the embattled chief executive officer delivered the worst news in the firm's 93-year history.
The third-quarter loss of $2.24 billion, or $2.82 a share, was about six times more than O'Neal acknowledged on Oct. 5 and derived from $8.4 billion of writedowns for the subprime mortgages, asset- backed bonds and loans gone bad under his watch.See the full content of this document
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Big Losses Doomed Ceo at Merrill Lynch
Merrill's result, coming during a credit market shakeout that triggere...
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