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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (148408)	9/20/2008 5:05:58 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Shareholders got jobbed, a weekend late and a dollar short... Judge says Lehman can sell units to Barclays news.yahoo.com NEW YORK - A bankruptcy judge decided just after midnight Saturday that Lehman Brothers can sell its investment banking and trading businesses to Barclays, the first major step to wind down the nation's fourth-largest investment bank. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck gave his decision in a courtroom packed with lawyers at the end of an eight-hour hearing, which capped a week of financial turmoil. The deal was said to be worth $1.75 billion earlier in the week but the value was in flux after lawyers announced changes to the terms on Friday. It may now be worth closer to $1.35 billion, which includes the $960 million price tag on Lehman's Midtown Manhattan office tower. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history Monday, after Barclays PLC declined to buy the investment bank in its entirety. The British bank will take control of Lehman units that employ about 9,000 employees in the U.S. "Not only is the sale a good match economically, but it will save the jobs of thousands of employees," said Lehman lawyer Harvey Miller of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Barclays took on a potential liability of $2.5 billion to be paid as severance, in case it decides not to keep certain Lehman employees beyond the guaranteed 90 days. But observers have said Barclays' main reason for acquiring Lehman is to get its people and presence in North America, making widespread layoffs less likely. "It's unimaginable to me that they can run the business without people," said Lehman's financial adviser, Barry Ridings, of Lazard Ltd. Barclays had little competition to land the deal. Miller said that before it filed for bankruptcy, Lehman had negotiated with just one other bidder, Bank of America Corp. BofA instead announced Monday that it would buy Merrill Lynch & Co., saving it from a fate similar to Lehman's. That deal was originally valued at $50 billion. Miller said that since Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Barclays had been the only buyer to express interest in acquiring even parts of the 158-year-old investment bank.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (148408)	9/20/2008 5:12:05 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

AFA I'm concerned, they can axe MM's alogether and let the dough flow back to passbooks and T-bills exactly. you cut out the riskier investments that allowed them to pay a higher yield? ooops no more higher yield... and their raison d’être would then be? but as george bailey said to the folks doing the run on the 'building and loan' your money isn't here! "your money's in joe's house...right next to yours. And in the kennedy house, and mrs. macklin's house, and a hundred others." only not quite...the money is invested in pieces of paper DERIVED from the value of those assets, and they are unwinding 3.4 Trillion invested in MM as 'liquid' and the light goes off the money isn't there....i don't even want to think about what happens when people pull their MM 'cash' at once...it will make the ARS debacle look like a minor hiccup as people start projectile vomiting their cash from 'risky' MM accounts