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[ID:nBNG130098] "The downside of building their capital ratio is going tobe significant amount of dilution," analyst Darst said. The Greenville, South Carolina-based bank posted net lossavailable to common shareholders of $111.5 million, or $1.23 ashare, compared with a loss of $16.8 million, or 23 cents ashare, last year. Operating loss available to common shareholders was $1.12 ashare. Analysts expected the company to post a loss of 78 cents ashare, excluding items, according to Reuters Estimates. In June, the bank offered 75 million of its common sharesat a discount as part of it plans to raise up to $315 millionvia an equity offering and conversion of preferred and hybridsecurities.
"While credit will remain challenging, we have prepared forit by building our capital position and loan loss reserves,"Chief Executive Lynn Harton said in a statement. "Their non-performing loans will peak at the end of 2009and credit losses will peak at the end of 2009 or early 2010,"he said. To cope with the string of losses, the company has soughtvarious options to boost their capital position. The deterioration of core earnings power over the past yearis due to the rise in credit costs and higher non-performingloans, Darst said. Treasury, has taken a huge hit fromits exposure to bad construction loans and is aggressivelylooking at curbing its non-performing assets and returning toprofitability. South Financial, which has received a $347 millioninvestment from the U.S. "We expect them to continue to lose money until the end of2010," Fox-Pitt analyst David Darst said, adding that theincreased losses in the second quarter were related toconstruction and real estate.
* Q2 loss $1.23/common share Stocks | Bonds * Loan loss provisions rise more than two-fold (Adds details, background, analyst comments) By Abhinav Sharma and Supantha Mukherjee BANGALORE, July 21 (Reuters) - Financial services firmSouth Financial Group Inc (TSFG.O) posted its sixth straightquarterly loss, weighed down by higher provision for creditlosses. In contrast, Intel, saying consumer PC demand wasimproving, projected current-quarter revenue far above WallStreet forecasts. The shares of Sunnyvale, California-based AMD fell morethan 12 percent in after-hours trading after closing down 2.16percent at $4.08 on the New York Stock Exchange.(Reporting by Clare Baldwin in San Francisco; editing byEdwin Chan and Andre Grenon) Stocks Media France. Revenue slid 13 percent from a year ago to $1.18 billionfrom $1.36 billion, a tad above expectations of $1.13 billion.
AMD, which has effectively split itself into a chipdesigner and a semiconductor foundry, said revenues from thechip arm would be "up slightly" in the fiscal third quarter. Excluding certain items, AMD posted a 62 cent loss,compared with the 53 cent loss forecast by analysts, accordingto Reuters Estimates. Also on Tuesday, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) blew past quarterlyexpectations. [ID:nN20471555] But AMD, which has struggled to safeguard its market shareagainst Intel, reported a net loss in the second quarter endedJune 27 of $335 million, or 49 cents a share.
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