Wednesday, 19 March 2008

JP Morgan and Bear Stearns

Just a very quick post on the very interesting deal that is JP Morgan's offer to buy each Bear Stearns share for 0.05473 JPM shares.

At close on 18/03/08, JPM closed at US$42.71 (notional value of the offer is $2.338), while BSC shares closed at $5.91 (and I'm sure the hedge funds have already taken their positions to arbitrage this).

Does this really improve BSC's chances of attracting a higher bid (from JPM or someone else)?

And with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers announcing results better than or in line with expectations, will there be someone out there thinking we might be out of the woods, and the window of opportunity is slowly narrowing?

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