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Dan Davies On What Brought Down Silicon Valley Bank

Odd Lots

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SVB's Unrealized Bond Portfolio Losses Are Bigger Than Your Shareholders' Funds

There were big unrealized losses on this security portfolio because they'd kept that interest rate risk there. If you're hanging around with an unrealized loss, that's bigger than your shareholders' funds. The former bank regulator in me says, if you're doing that, then something bad is going to happen sooner or later. How worried should we be about other banks versus how much of this is maybe an SVB specific story?

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