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Archive for Januar 11th, 2008

Financials … insider buying or just desperation?

Freitag, Januar 11th, 2008

Here we go …
- Bank of America buys Countrywide Financial in a stock deal for 4 bln$.
- JP Morgan is rumoured to snap up Washington Mutual or somebody else. CNBC says, they want to do something!
- Buffett is said to consider buying a troubled bond insurer.
Ok, we used to see Asian and Arab money buying […]

Subprime … round 2

Freitag, Januar 11th, 2008

NY Times has a story, that Merill Lynch will have to take Q4 write offs of around 15(!!!) bln $ … just double of expectations …
AXP takes surprisingly another charge and trades down close to 8% … showing, that subprime really spills over now.
As I mentioned yesterday, the BoA story is NOT positive at first […]