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To: TobagoJack who wrote (30922)3/16/2008 4:12:17 AM
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Ripples across the pond...

UK tycoon Joe Lewis loses $800m on Wall Street
Bear Stearns on brink of break-up

March 16, 2008
Dominic Rushe, Iain Dey and David Smith

JOE LEWIS, the secretive British billionaire, has lost an estimated $800m in the collapse of the American investment bank Bear Stearns.

The 71-year-old currency trading tycoon, who runs his empire from the Bahamas, holds almost 10% of the bank's shares. Bear’s shares fell 40% on Friday to $27, after it secured a 28-day credit lifeline to stave off collapse.

Lewis began building a stake in Bear last September, when the shares were changing hands for more than $100.

The huge paper losses could force Lewis to sell out of some of his other positions, according to traders, in order to meet margin calls from his lending banks.

business.timesonline.co.uk
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