Economics: Lehman suffers nearly $4 billion loss

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Lehman suffers nearly $4 billion loss

Will any investors help out Lehman or will they meet the same fate as Bear Stearns?

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/companies/lehman/index.htm?cnn=yes

Here's an email that I received about this situation:

"Lehman Brothers’ shares are crashing. The stock closed at 16.20 on Friday. As we write this alert, it’s trading at $9.80, signaling a major new collapse could be on the immediate horizon. If we’re right, this debacle is going to be several times worse than the Bear Stearns disaster of last March. In a last act of desperation, cash-strapped Lehman was in meetings with the state-owned Korea Development Bank trying to sell its profitable Neuberger asset management unit. But those meetings have now broken down. Its last hope for survival seems to be down the tubes. But Lehman isn’t alone ...Washington Mutual to its CEO: “Pack up your desk. You’re FIRED!” Kerry Killinger, the CEO responsible for nearly bankrupting the bank was canned yesterday. At almost the same time, WaMu took the first step towards failure, filing a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision.Unsurprisingly, Washington Mutual stock plunged, bringing its total losses for the year to 70% of its market value.Wachovia admits to bigger woes in its $122 billion options ARMs portfolio. In a shocking revelation, Wachovia announced that 23,600 of its loans are going bad, and a whopping two-thirds of borrowers with options ARMs are opting not to pay the interest and principal due each month."

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