Lehman gone by the weekend!

The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are engineering a sale of Lehman Brothers through a consortium of private firms. The details are not finalized, but sources familiar with the matter say the purchase is expected to be completed and announced this weekend before Asian markets open Monday morning.

Lehman Brothers, which had been anxious to show it could weather the credit crisis that contributed to the firm's $3.9 billion third-quarter loss, said Wednesday that it would sell a majority stake in its investment-management division, slash its dividend and spin off about $30 billion of real estate assets.

The announcement did little to calm investors' concerns that Lehman, the smallest of the four major Wall Street investment banks, might suffer the same fate as former rival Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in a deal regulators brokered in March after a bank run that shook the securities industry.

Lehman's share price fell nearly 40 percent to $4.22 at the end of trading today, continuing a precipitous fall from more than $60 a share as of February.

Goldman Sachs Group reduced its rating on the company, with one analyst saying that the restructuring "fell short of what was necessary," the Bloomberg news service reported, while Moody's Investor Services argued that the firm faced a cut in its credit rating unless it quickly enters a "strategic arrangement" with a stronger partner.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102580.html?hpid=topnews

Finally. Another $2 name, and we won't hear Fuld's BS anymore! But Fuld still pocketed $466 million for dumping stock!

Between 1993 and 2007, Mr. Fuld took home about $466 million in compensation, including base salary, bonuses, long-term incentive plan payouts and the value of stock options he exercised. That’s according to calculations from Equilar, an executive compensation research firm.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/counting-the-cash-for-lehmans-chief/?scp=3&sq=fuld&st=cse

http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2008/06/morgan-stanley-upgrades-lehman-after.html

http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2008/06/lehmans-latest.html

http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2008/06/time-to-test-bernanke-put.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7575cc0a-003c-11dd-825a-000077b07658.html

http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2008/06/lehmans-fuld-dumps-stock-at-highs.html

Finally done with Fuld, the biggest liar on the street!