Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
The fourth largest U.S. investment bank - Lehman Brothers applied for a declaration of bankruptcy, reported Bloomberg. Thus the bank, which exists in 158 years, wound up and notes the largest bank failure in the U.S. since its debts amount to 613 billion dollars.
The two potential buyers for strapped bank have withdrawn from talks to save the institution that is another victim of credit crisis in the U.S.. Of the negotiations originally issued British bank Barclays, which was a major candidate to acquire Lehman Brothers, but was refused because of lack of opportunity to obtain guarantees from the government or from other major players on Wall Street, against losses from impaired assets to Lehman. Subsequently, about three hours later, the talks went and Bank of America, which announced that it will acquire Merill Lynch.
Last week the bank announced the biggest loss in its history, which amounted to 3.9 billion dollars. This led to disclosure of plans to sell a majority share of the establishment of asset management, separation of assets in the sector of real estate in a separate partition and Crop of planned dividends in an effort to save funds. These efforts, however, failed to lead to the cessation of speculation that the exposures of mortgage market will lead to new losses and may prove detrimental to the bank. As a result, only a week Lehman shares lost 77 of percent of the value of the exchange in New York.
Lehman Brothers difficulties of her becoming the second major investment bank in the U.S., which faces on the edge of bankruptcy. In March, government intervention enabled JPMorgan to acquire it the fifth largest investment bank in Bear Stearns. Even then appeared among investors anticipated that Lehman follow in his footsteps and Bear is just a matter of time to declare bankruptcy. Besides the two giant investment banking in the U.S. since the beginning of the year because of the credit crisis are closed 11 of smaller regional banks.
Late on Sunday the Federal Reserve announced new measures to improve access to emergency appropriations financed companies. In addition, a consortium of 10 investment banks announced a program worth 70 billion dollars that could be used by companies involved in the credit crisis. Each of the banks - Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS, agreed to draw of 7 billion dollars in new program.
Lehman Brothers was founded in 1850 by three German immigrants of Jewish origin. In time it is established as one of the most stable financial banks in the U.S., as has resistance of the biggest crises related to the Great Depression of 1929, two world wars, the big market collapse of 1987, etc. Excessive risk exposure of mortgage market in recent years, however, can lead to the end of the financial institution.
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