<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">>ICharles: Who'd they lose it to ?<BR>
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The people who borrowed the money who can't pay it<BR>
back.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Charles: That would be 60 billion for our side, wouldn't it ? ( small businesses are with us when the rev comes )<BR>
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>>Japanese banks hemorrhage<BR>
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>>By Shane Green, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo<BR>
>>May 27 2003<BR>
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>>Japan's troubled top seven banks reported a combined<BR>
>>record loss of about ¥4.62 trillion ($60 billion)<BR>
late<BR>
>>yesterday, reinforcing warnings from the country's<BR>
>>central bank that the world's second largest economy<BR>
>>could plunge into crisis at any time</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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