When the market crashed in 1990, some companies were left with huge unrealised losses.

But in most continental countries this test excludes unrealised losses.

Unrealised losses at Household already amount to $34bn and could plausibly increase.

However, the draft legislation is silent on how unrealised losses will be treated.

Falkengren said the unrealised losses are expected to be reversed over time.

Banks' unrealised losses on their shareholdings will continue to increase as the stock market falls.

No wonder it increased its provisions and impairments for unrealised losses to £248m, nearly four times the figure a year earlier.

Unrealised losses due only to administrative expenses of these recently created funds will however be ignored.

How could the transfer of unrealised losses be overcome?

The bank said the results could be attributed to unrealised losses on its portfolio of structured credits.

It also flagged a A$1.3 million unrealised loss arising from interest swaps.

Cash generation and unrealised losses move in right direction Cashflow at holding company was small (£22m) positive.

The second number relates to unrealised losses on available-for-sale debt securities.

The fact that regulators don’t look at unrealised losses on bonds has been key in keeping insurers alive.

Analysts say many Japanese investors are likely facing unrealised losses from their emerging market investments.

It blamed the gap on $7 million unrealised loss on foreign exchange options.

Investors were also unnerved by the jump in unrealised losses on debt securities “available for sale”.

When stocks fell, though, they caused unrealised losses, which have to be deducted from tier one capital.

The replacement cost figure excludes unrealised losses or gains from changes in the value of inventories.

The IMF has estimated that unrealised losses may amount to another $1,000bn.

Secondly, some regulators don’t include unrealised losses on bonds in their solvency calculations.

A 10 per cent appreciation in Australia's dollar could result in an unrealised loss of about $3.43 billion, he wrote.

However, we also note that Iksil then recommended to enter into further long positions to offset "the current unrealised loss."

This includes unrealised losses of 3.96 million dinars.

Many Japanese individual investors now have unrealised losses on overseas assets they bought when the yen was much weaker.

About $1.8 billion of those securities have been in an unrealized loss position for more than 12 months.

Unrealized losses can be carried forward for up to eight years.

In the first six months of this year, realized and unrealized losses were only $12.8 million.

Continued growth in earnings would also offset those unrealized losses.

Michael - Are these changes in the forward volumes (unrealized losses).

At the least, the unrealized losses that many investors are sitting on will shrink.

The company also said unrealized loss from its investment portfolio rose by about $22.7 million at Sept. 30.

That holding swung to a net unrealized loss of $2.3 billion by the second quarter.

This was primarily due to an unrealized loss on oil and gas derivatives.

Negative variance of $0.1 million related to unrealized loss on short term investments.

"If there are large gains, people may want to take unrealized losses in their portfolios."

However, last year's rise in interest rates has left the portfolio with sizable unrealized losses.

As financial markets came back, the unrealized loss on its securities investment shrunk by $30.2 million.

An unrealized loss is a loss on paper and not in actual cash.

The unrealized loss on the conduits was $530 million at the end of the fourth quarter.

Notably, unrealized losses on investments increased in the first quarter of 2008.

These unrealized losses are typically excluded by the investment community in published estimates.

The company recorded $23.6 million of unrealized losses due to write-downs.

Debt securities account for 78% of the unrealized loss.

No unrealized losses on interest rate swaps were recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2007.

Just before the deal closes, Countrywide will total up both its realized and unrealized losses.

At the same time, State Street also has $3.2 billion in unrealized losses on its investment portfolio.

It reported a $34.4 million unrealized loss as of that date, which it considered temporary.

Gross unrealized losses reflect the difference between the fair value and amortized cost.

His argument is that the unrealized losses on the financial unit's balance sheet are greater than most investors understand.