Japan’s largest securities company Nomura Holdings Inc. will post a pretax loss of $620 million, its first quarterly loss in four years, caused by troubled residential mortgage-backed securities. It was also announced that Nomura will cut 400 jobs in the U.S. and shut down its residential mortgage-backed securities business. According to CEO Nobuyuki Koga, “the pace of the collapse” was quicker than expected. Japanese banks Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. also reported losses on investments in securities backed by subprime mortgages.
In the U.S., Merrill Lynch and UBS expect to report substantial losses with their third-quarter results, related to home-loan investments. Citigroup revealed a 57% drop in third-quarter profit, including higher-than-expected losses of $1.56 billion on mortgage-backed securities. No wonder that no one wants to originate subprime anymore.
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