• 22 Aug 2008 at 9:50 AM

KDB To Buy Brothers?

richardbove.JPGReuters reports that woodland creature Dick Bove may have been on to something yesterday when he upgraded Lehman Brothers to a buy due to a possible takeover. A spokesman from state-run Korea Development Bank confirmed today that they are “studying a number of options and are open to all possibilities, which could include (buying) Lehman.”
Bove told CNBC this morning that Fuld has taken too long to figure out what to do with the place and “if something doesn’t happen this weekend, game on.” He also noted that, unlike The Brow, John Thain has been doing a great job at Merrill Lynch. So that’s nice. Humanity and all that.
KDB says buying Lehman a possibility [Reuters]

Comments (8)

  1. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

    Koreans running an investment bank…………………give me a break.

  2. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM

    Bove told CNBC this morning that Fuld has taken too long to figure out what to do with the place and “if something doesn’t happen this weekend, game on.”
    - wonder what that means

  3. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 10:08 AM

    Is that North Korea or South Korea?

  4. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    How much was BSC up on the Friday b/f JPM’s $2 bid?? Bueller?
    “If something doesn’t happen this weekend…..” That sounds like an entity that should be paid up for.

  5. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM

    Loved the “woodland creature” remark.

  6. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    Dick Bove was such a convincing Ewok in Star Wars

  7. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    Bess – any chance you could put a picture of one of the Ewoks up instead of Bove for your next post on him? Or maybe a side by side?

  8. Posted by guest | August 22, 2008 at 12:11 PM

    @7– he looks like an ewok so it’s not necessary.

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