Lacking Pangloss
18 October 2011

Forget the reported $6.2 bln profit. Both the commercial bank and the Wall Street operations fared worse than rivals in the third quarter. Even a very low tax rate couldn’t help. Strip out the accounting funnies and the CCB sale gain and BofA lost money again.
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