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This excerpt taken from the C 10-Q filed Aug 1, 2008.

Additional Write-Downs on Subprime-Related Direct Exposures

        During the second quarter of 2008, the Company's S&B business recorded losses of $3.4 billion pretax, net of hedges, on its subprime-related direct exposures, bringing the total losses year-to-date to $9.3 billion. The Company's remaining $22.5 billion in U.S. subprime net direct exposure in S&B at June 30, 2008 consisted of (a) approximately $18.1 billion of net exposures to the super senior tranches of collateralized debt obligations, which are collateralized by asset- backed securities, derivatives on asset-backed securities or both and (b) approximately $4.3 billion of subprime-related exposures in its lending and structuring business. See "Exposure to U.S. Residential Real Estate" on page 30 for a further discussion of such exposures and the associated losses recorded during the second quarter of 2008.

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