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Huntington in Ohio sells debt securities at $20 million pretax loss

Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio, restructured its securities portfolio.

The company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it sold about $1 billion of corporate debt investment securities and associated hedges, resulting in a pretax loss of about $20 million.

Huntington intends to reinvest the proceeds from the sale in 0% risk-weighted investment securities. It should take about two years to earn back the loss from the securities sale.

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