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A man enters a Credit Suisse branch on April 24, 2008 in Bern. The bank reported a net loss of 2.148 billion Swiss francs (1.330 billion euros, 2.11 billion dollars) for the first three months of the year. Switzerland’s second biggest bank plunged into its first quarterly loss for five years reporting heavy extra writedowns because of the subprime home-loan crisis in the United States. AFP PHOTO / Fabrice Coffrini