Just gonna Google some stuff and read some articles and put important facts and sources here to try to answer the burning question I have: Why did they choose t

Just gonna Google some stuff and read some articles and put important facts and sources here to try to answer the burning question I have: Why did they choose to realize that loss now? > Last week, depositors started pulling out their money and to meet that demand, the bank had to sell its investment in bonds whose value had declined due to rising interest rates. > SVB Bank had last week sold its $21-billion bond portfolio consisting of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities at a loss of $1.8 billion. > Over 95 percent of these mortgage-backed securities were over 10 years in duration, with a weighted average yield of 1.56 per cent. > The bank had invested heavily in Mortgage-backed securities and US Treasuries last year through deposit money to earn higher returns. The bank had seen a huge influx of deposits but struggled to find enough credit demand to deploy that money at desired yields. > As per reports, SVB had over $80 billion worth of investments in mortgage-backed securities. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/mc-explains-what-are-the-mbs-that-landed-svb-in-trouble-a-ready-reckoner-on-mortgage-backed-securities-10242571.html https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/mc-explains-what-... > Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday in one of the biggest US bank runs in more than a decade, according to a Friday regulatory filing. > At the close of business on March 9, the bank had a negative cash balance of $958 million, according to an order taking possession of the bank filed Friday by California’s bank regulator, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. > The scale of attempted withdrawals was so large that the bank ran out of cash and ways to get it. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O_auqz1--9AJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/svb-depositors-investors-tried-to-pull-42-billion-on-thursday&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O_auqz... > The run was sparked by a letter that Silicon Valley Bank Chief Executive Officer Greg Becker sent to shareholders Wednesday. The bank had suffered a $1.8 billion loss on the sale of US treasuries and mortgage-backed securities and outlined a plan to raise $2.25 billion of capital to shore up its finances. > But the root of its demise goes back several years. Like many other banks, SVB ploughed billions into US government bonds during the era of near-zero interest rates. > When interest rates rise, bond prices fall, so the jump in rates eroded the value of SVB’s bond portfolio. The portfolio was yielding an average 1.79% return last week, far below the 10-year Treasury yield of around 3.9%, Reuters reported. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/investing/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-explained/index.html#:~:text=SVB's%20collapse%20came%20suddenly%2C%20following,of%20near%2Dzero%20interest%20rates https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/investing/silicon-valley-bank....