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Analyst Caren Meyer says the company is lowering its long-term growth rate to 15% from 20-25%; guidance for loan growth has been lowered significantly for the rest of 2001. She notes management subsequently said it changed its bankruptcy chargeoff policy on June 18. She says the net effect was to understate loss rate by 30 basis points. Meyer thinks the timing of the change is suspicious, and she notes management didn't disclose the change during its Q2 conferance call, and she thinks this impacts the company's credibility. Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
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