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Moorefield, WV -- Summit Financial Group here plans to recognize $1.5 million of impairment in the fourth quarter relating to its $5.7 million investment in certain preferred stock of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Summit is the latest in a long line of banks that have taken "other than temporary" impairment charges related to their investment in the GSEs' preferred stock. Summit said the impairment equals $940,000 on an after-tax basis, or $0.13 per diluted share.
Summit continues to own the securities and said it made the decision to recognize impairment "primarily due to the difficulty in accurately ...