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"Managers don't want to show high cash balances after such a strong year, but at this point, they also want to lock in gains, " she said.

That's likely to include requiring the Fed in an accounting sense to see a significant accounting loss.

It certainly seems as though Minmetals would be getting a good deal: the assets are going for a $400m discount to book value.

Lately, they'd found a source of steady income by taking loans off the books of banks and packaging them up as trust products.

Military trucks carrying what appeared to be multiple rocket launchers were seen heading to a marine base on the island Monday.

The company might have to write down its stake in the unprofitable Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) [NSN. UL] venture, Kaeser said.

"But we always seem to be broke at the end of the month, " she says. "On paper you look well off, when in practice you can be struggling" .

That would be enough to restore it to profitability if there were no further write-downs on its holdings of Greek government bonds.

The only condition would be that the four big banks would have to convey the assets at year-end, audited book values.