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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (374295)	3/16/2008 8:33:32 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575817

Scary, scary shit. And I was just about to hit up a Bear Stearns exec for money this week... -Z

To: Road Walker who wrote (374295)	3/16/2008 8:44:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575817

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. government swiftly approved the all-stock deal, showing the urgency of completing the deal before world markets opened. Short term this is a disaster but long term its actually good news. BSC was one of the weak links that was managing to survive beyond all odds. To get a bottom in the markets, these weak links have to get bought out, broken up or file for bankruptcy.