Nov. 13, 2007 Bank of America said it will take a pretax write-down of about $3 billion in the fourth quarter to reflect a drop in value of securities related to mortgages and will spend $600 million supporting in-house money market funds that are exposed to troubled financing entities called structured investment vehicles. Bank of America shares rallied more than 3% on the news.
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