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Lehman Bros. Q1 Profits Plunge 57%

Posted Mar 18, 08 8:18 AM CDT in Business 

(Newser) – Lehman Brothers, which yesterday lost 19% of its market value, today reported a 57% drop in net income for the first quarter and a 31% drop in net revenue. But those dire figures still beat analyst forecasts, sending the stock up 12% in premarket trading, the Wall Street Journal reports. The earnings were brought low by a $1.8 billion mortgage writedown.

That writedown knocked the fixed-income figures down 88%, and capital market revenue fell 52%, but other businesses grew, Bloomberg reports. “The game here is confidence,” said one expert. “The profit figures depend on how illiquid assets are marked to market, and investors don't trust those numbers.” Another analyst put it bluntly: “Lehman is not Bear.”

Sources Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg

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Michael McDonnell, center,of Lehman Brothers Market Makers talks to fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Mathew Mandola of Lehman Brothers Market Makers looks to an overhead monitor from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008.   (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Lehman Brothers headquarters is shown in New York's Times Square on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In a file photo Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, Jr., at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2007.   (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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