Some observers called the banks' refusal to sell the so-called legacy assets and the move to repay the government as signs that the worst of the crisis had passed; others countered that any signs of bank profitability rested more on accounting changes than changed business conditions, and that hundreds of billions in new losses lay ahead. The other big part of the Geithner plan, aimed at troubled mortgage-backed securities, was still being prepared, officials said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Big-banks-repay-government-rb-15553312.html?.v=7
You mean that bonds which were marked down (but not actually sold) are now being marked back up? That's a shocker, I thought they only marked bonds down.