With the excitement in the market last Friday, chances are you missed the fact that regulators closed Ameribank, which is based in West Virginia. This raises the number of retail banks closed to 12 for 2008.
Ameribank was a small, $104 million dollar, operation that got into trouble with construction rehabilitation loans in low income real estate markets.
It’s all part of the shake out, nothing to fear… yet…
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