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Below are only the latest writedown stories from the web as of June 2nd. If you are linking in from DailyKos and looking for the full timeline of writedown news and the credit crisis, visit my credit crisis timeline, the most comprehensive on the web.
Also see my list of Bankrupt Global Financial Institutions.
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2008 05 19 Crédit Agricole boosts risk controls after writedowns hit €3.3bn2008 05 19 Subprime Losses Top $379 Billion on Balance-Sheet Marks: Table2008 05 19 Banks Keep $35 Billion Markdown Off Income Statements2008 05 19 AIG to raise roughly $20 billion in capital2008 05 20 Credit Crisis Will Extend Into 2009, $170 bn in additional [...]

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Wikipedia has a great entry on the subprime housing bubble for anyone who wants a primer on the bubble and a subprime housing bubble timeline. Follow the link here. This a pretty comprehensive entry with some pretty heady stuff and a lot of good bits of information like:

A timeline from February 2007
A look [...]

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I am now updating the information on my Credit Crisis Timeline here:
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/credit-crisis-timeline
There have been a tremendous number of economic dislocations during the present financial crisis. Initially written off as a sub-prime crisis, leading policy makers said the crisis was contained. It has since spilled over into Jumbo mortgage rates, Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), all asset [...]