星期二, 9月 16, 2008

Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 protection

筆者最不希望見到的結果, 令人傷感的消息終於還是公佈了:

Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the biggest bankruptcy filing ever on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business units.

The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the bank's holding company.

Lehman plans an orderly liquidation of its assets in the coming months, and possibly years.

In London, the administrators who have taken control of key Lehman Brothers' businesses in the United Kingdom said it could take years to dispose of the company's assets to pay off creditors.

Tony Lomas of PriceWaterHouseCoopers said liquidating those assets will be more complex than disposing of Enron's European assets, which took six years after the U.S. energy company's 2001 bankruptcy.

Filing for Chapter 11 protection allows a company to restructure while creditor claims are held at bay. The company most likely chose to file under Chapter 11, rather than a Chapter 7 liquidation, so that it could retain more control over the selling off of assets, said Stephen Lubben, the Daniel J. Moore professor of law at Seton Hall Law School. In a Chapter 7 filing, the court would immediately appoint a trustee to take over the case.

In its bankruptcy petition, Lehman listed Citigroup among its biggest unsecured creditors, with about $138 billion in bonds as of July 2. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. was listed as holding about $17 billion in debt.

Lehman said that as of May 31, it had assets of $639 billion and debt of $613 billion.

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8 則留言:

  1. Yes, very sad. Sigh.
    I know a few people works there for over ten yrs (not banker). Hope they're okay.

    As Mr Market said "在別人恐懼的時候你要變得貪心". Not mentioning any 貪心, I'm quite 恐懼 and sad now. (may be I know some of them and they are very nice people).

    I'm frustrated.

    Cheers.

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  2. 隨著兩房被接管、貝爾斯登、雷曼兄弟、美林相繼出色,究竟代表最壞的金融海瀟出現了嗎?
    財政部最終亦不向買家為雷曼的資產負債表包底。此做法雖受到質疑,但有區別的做法亦反映財政部的拯救行動是克制及針對性。當然華府考慮過機構的市場地位、道德標準及債務量等。

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  3. 回應Bandy : 撇除股價的問題, 對於整個金融業發展到目前的地步, 我的確覺得傷感和沉重.

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  4. 回應Bandy︰我正為市場的恐懼作出了所有資金的準備。我同樣的策略是長線投資、只買不賣,愈低愈買,擅長捕捉市場情緒及價值的高底。

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  5. 回應投資王: 支持, 無需要恐慌. 我都唔會沽出任何一股永久組合.

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  6. 雖然市場正彌漫恐慌情緒,但我們的情況並不太壞,最少我們沒持有摃捍資產。
    人家後欄失火,迫不能已在缺乏考慮基本因素已不理性拋售股票,屬情有可原。
    惟一般散戶,何必人沽你沽,其實反其道人棄我取才是價值投資的精神。

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  7. 回應市場先生 : 我唯一覺得擔心既係上個月已經用我不算多的資金買晒股票(有先生的永久組合), 現已無多餘資金再入~~>.<~~

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  8. 回應投資王: 絕對同意.

    回應小窮神 : 繼續安心持有永久組合

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