Lehman status-Sunday afternoon
Reports coming across Barclay's has walked away from deal.
Most Asian markets have holiday tomorrow-closed.
London opens 3am.
USD...problems galore.
Reports coming across Barclay's has walked away from deal.
Most Asian markets have holiday tomorrow-closed.
London opens 3am.
USD...problems galore.
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Barclay's walking away
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/mon…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/business/14lehman.html?hp
http://www.cnbc.com/id/26704405
BOA still involved
Just spoke off-record to someone working in the M&A team at one of the banks advising BofA; said BofA currently unlikely to go ahead with full acquisition for similar reason to BARC - unable to guarantee all the credit losses etc won't blow up tomorrow. Seriously think its going to go under in next 24hrs now.
=== 23yr old Associate
He just rang saying they're drafting a LEH Chapter-11 bankruptcy filing. I kid you guys not.
=== 23yr old Associate
I believe you--they have been working on the paperwork for a couple of days. I keep waiting for Paulson to call chicken first.
This situation is now becoming extremely critical given the fact that foreign markets open tonight. If a deal is not reached by tonight we could quite possibly see Lehman go bankrupt by end of trading in New York on Monday.
http://www.isda.org/
Assuming this information is correct and not speculation in the least, are you sure it's chapter 11? I could swear that banks could not file for Ch. 11, but chapter 7 due to liquiditation means on assets when paying creditors.
=== 23yr old Associate
Fuld must be beside himself. Going from 650 on paper to 14 on friday to ?? at midnight. Amazing and so disheartning to watch this unfold for all involved. 158 year old company. Shit. Not a pretty sight tomorrow.
According to the NY Times The Lehman Holding company can file Ch 11
But the arguement against chapter 11 is the liquidity play. Derviatives being exempt and all, unless the street agrees to do business with Lehman while they are in Chapter 11 and honor counterparty trading, you will be looking at everyone trying to liquidate positions with Lehman, implying Chapter 7. Either way, Monday is just going to be a very down day. I would not be shocked if we saw at least 1 trading barrier broken on monday and had a minimum of a half hour of stoppage.
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