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JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share




Topic started on 16-3-2008 @ 11:20 PM by OmniVersal


JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share


biz.yahoo.com

Just four days after Bear Stearns Chief Executive Alan Schwartz assured Wall Street that his company was not in trouble, he was forced on Sunday to sell the investment bank to competitor JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of $2 a share, or $236.2 million.
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reply posted on 16-3-2008 @ 11:20 PM by OmniVersal


"At Friday's close, Bear Stearns's stock-market value was about $3.54 billion." (Link)

Now that's a steal. It's good to see the true value coming out. With the size of the derivative market this should send a few more shock waves through the world economy.

Using Bear as a benchmark....

$3,540,000,000 to
$236,200,000

That's about 15 to 1. That's not going to be pretty.

biz.yahoo.com
(visit the link for the full news article)



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reply posted on 16-3-2008 @ 11:23 PM by OmniVersal


I'm late on this. The other thread is www.abovetopsecret.com...



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