Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Financial news

With the recent financial crisis dealing with Banks and the 500 point drop on the Dow, here are some news stories from the past few days:

Fed bails out AIG lending the insurance giant $85 billion loan for 2 years. Fed gets 79% equity stake in AIG.

Barclays buys some of the core assests of Lehman Brothers for $1.75 billion. Move could save as many as 8-10 k jobs in the U.S. Sounds like a steal to me.

Russian stock market dropped 17% yesterday and then suspends selling. It dropped 6.4% today and has already been suspended for a second straight day. Wow.

Samsung makes a $5.85 billion bid on SanDisk.

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