Commonwealth Bank Profits?

errol43

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Nowhere in their balance sheet do you see their Derivative exposure! Why? It is what is referred to in big banking circles off the book accounting! $15 trillion exposure? Bank's capital $950 billion. London to a brick is the bet!

Betting on the nod :) Paint your painted pony let the spinning wheel ride.. Banks are the gamblers in the World Casino.

$9.5 billion profit on $950 billion capital = 1% on my reckoning. Even a drovers dog could do nearly as well. :D

Regards Errol 43
 
1%,

Bloody greedy I reckon, come the revolution the blood sucking capitalists will be up against a wall the next day.

OC
 
Said on the radio they had a profit write down on bad loans to resources companies. Poor buggers.
 
Time to fire THE BOARD! ;-)

And I read that the "Provisions for Bad and Doubtful Debts" is 0.19%

That is VERY low and the Banks are usually comfortable with anything less than 1%. Anything over and they begin to worry, and anything near 2% and they call in the CEO to explain.

As for 'Derivatives' in the Balance Sheet. I last checked about 2 years ago in the WESTPAC annual report and they had about 500 Billion on EACH side of it, so I can only assume losses and gains may well cancel each other out, but cannot guarantee that. I had never heard of a derivative until maybe 5 years ago.


OC
 
#3,

The accepted 'spread' for borrowings interest cost, and loans interest return, was/is about 2%, needed to cover basic costs, staff, premises, losses, tax, CEO benefits!

OC
 
You can't put price on dreams. They have transcended the world of profit and loss.

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