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How Lehman Brothers Busted the World Economy I Episode 02
Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers remains the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history with Lehman holding over $600 billion in assets.
The Dow Jones closed down just over 500 points (?4.4%) on September 15, 2008, at the time the largest drop by points in a single day since the days following the attacks on September 11, 2001. (This drop was subsequently exceeded by an even larger ?7.0% plunge on September 29, 2008.)
Lehman’s bankruptcy is expected to cause some depreciation in the price of commercial real estate. The prospect for Lehman’s $4.3 billion in mortgage securities getting liquidated sparked a selloff in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market. Additional pressure to sell securities in commercial real estate is feared as Lehman gets closer to liquidating its assets. Apartment-building investors are also expected to feel pressure to sell as Lehman unloads its debt and equity pieces of the $22 billion purchase of Archstone, the third-largest United States Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). Archstone’s core business is the ownership and management of residential apartment buildings in major metropolitan areas of the United States. Jeffrey Spector, a real-estate analyst at UBS said that in markets with apartment buildings that compete with Archstone, “there is no question that if you need to sell assets, you will try to get ahead” of the Lehman selloff, adding “Every day that goes by there will be more pressure on pricing.”
Several money funds and institutional cash funds had significant exposure to Lehman with the institutional cash fund run by The Bank of New York Mellon and the Primary Reserve Fund, a money-market fund, both falling below $1 per share, called “breaking the buck”, following losses on their holdings of Lehman assets. In a statement The Bank of New York Mellon said its fund had isolated the Lehman assets in a separate structure. It said the assets accounted for 1.13% of its fund. The drop in the Primary Reserve Fund was the first time since 1994 that a money-market fund had dropped below the $1-per-share level.
Putnam Investments, a unit of Canada’s Great-West Lifeco, shut a $12.3 billion money-market fund as it faced “significant redemption pressure” on September 17, 2008. Evergreen Investments said its parent Wachovia Corporation would “support” three Evergreen money-market funds to prevent their shares from falling. This move to cover $494 million of Lehman assets in the funds also raised fears about Wachovia’s ability to raise capital.
Duration : 0:19:57
Should You Buy Shares of American Airlines Stock – Ch 11 Bankruptcy
American Airlines has filed for Ch 11. bankruptcy. Does that make purchasing their stock a good deal?
Duration : 0:2:39
Crystal Cathedral Declares Bankruptcy
Sheila Schuller Coleman and James Penner speak out on the bankruptcy of the Crystal Cathedral.
Video by Mark Eades (c) OCRegister 2010
Duration : 0:2:20
Lehman Brothers collapse. Sep. 15, 2008. Stock Market Reactions
Sep 15, 2008.
The venerable Lehman Brothers investment bank said early Monday that it will file for bankruptcy, while Bank of America unveiled plans to buy Merrill Lynch — two pieces of news that profoundly alter the American financial landscape.
The fast-paced changes capped a roller-coaster Wall Street weekend and threatened to stir up U.S. financial markets already reeling from woes at other major financial firms and mortgage financing titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
“This crisis is clearly deeper than anybody had imagined only a short time ago,” Peter Stein, an associate editor at The Wall Street Journal in Asia, told CNN.
Lehman Brothers said in a statement early Monday that it plans to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The 158-year-old investment bank had been undermined by bad bets on real estate — the value of its shares declined 94 percent this year.
The fall of Lehman followed a wild, three-day scramble by top Wall Street executives and federal regulators, who worked around the clock to come up with a solution to a still-unfolding financial crisis.
By the end of the weekend, the Federal Reserve had stepped in to try to calm the markets by announcing plans to loosen its lending restrictions on the banking industry.
A consortium of 10 leading domestic and foreign banks agreed to create a $70 billion fund for loans to troubled financial firms.
Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/09/15/banks.bigchanges/index.html
Duration : 0:2:20
What Is Chapter 13 Bankruptcy?
Leading Bankruptcy Attorney Richard A Check answers this question from the perspective of Wisconsin State Law.
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Duration : 0:0:54
