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What does the term writedown means in the finance world/?

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recently citi and merrill has big writedown worth billions of dollar...what does write down mean?

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  1. WriteDown = Declare to Wall Street that some of their loans have gone bad, and that they will not be receiving the payments they thought they would.


  2. Writedown means that an investment has lost a significant part of its value.
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