• 29 Sep 2008 at 11:45 AM
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Checking It Twice

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IndyMac
Lehman Brothers
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National City Drops 52% as Market Wonders Who’s Next [CNBC]

Comments (32)

  1. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM

    AIG?

  2. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM

    No AIG?

  3. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM

    No AIG?

  4. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM

    I still don’t understand why NatCity has dropped like a rock over the past few days. They are in MUCH better shape than WaMu or Wachovia.

  5. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM

    merrill?

  6. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:50 AM

    AIG is not a bank, you nitpicking gonifs.

  7. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:50 AM

    MER?

  8. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM

    @6…neither are/were Bear and LEH, technically.

  9. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM

    @6 hey turdo, bear stearns and lehman brothers weren’t banks either, they were brokerage houses. “investment bank” is a misnomer.

  10. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    what’s the deal with the WB pref stock?? Anyone knows and willing to share?

  11. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    @6…neither are/were Bear and LEH, technically.

  12. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    And $29/share does not put MER on this list either. As much as EP gets slammed around here, you’d think you lot could follow along easier than this.

  13. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM

    it must be the short sellers!

  14. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM

    HBAN is gonna get drubbed too.

  15. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM

    trups are being assumed by citi. regular pfds are staying at whatever is left of wachovia corp.

  16. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM

    @10 go back to yahoo finance, k?

  17. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 11:59 AM

    #9 – I’ll grant you (or at least the more polite #11) that, but the point is, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a fucking zebra. AIG is the zebra here, in case my metaphor went by as fast as EP’s apparently did. This is a list of, if not ducks, at least feathered bipeds.

  18. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM

    Nat City is based out of Ohio, which is reeling from the loss of manufacturing jobs. Housing prices are falling fast as people move out of the state. There is a ton of supply on the market. Check out this link. http://www.ncmcreo.com/PropertySearchResult.asp
    Notice how they are a ton of properties under $50,000 that Nat City owns.

  19. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM

    ‘It’s all gone Pete Tong’
    -C

  20. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM

    How much reg pfds is out there?

  21. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM

    the fundamentals of the economy are strong.

  22. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM

    AIG can’t fall, hankie pankie needs them to prop up goldie…
    “A collapse of the insurer threatened to leave a hole of as much as $20 billion in Goldman’s side, several of these people said.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28melt.html?scp=1&sq=goldman%20aig&st=cse

  23. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    @17…I see your logic and I see EPs…but if EP includes Wachovia which did not fail like the others on the list…Bear would’ve went 11 without JPM it was a foregone conclusion – WB maybe not – at least not imminent.
    But based on having WB on there, CFC should be on that list as well, EP.

  24. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM

    @17…I see your logic and I see EPs…but if EP includes Wachovia which did not fail like the others on the list…Bear would’ve went 11 without JPM it was a foregone conclusion – WB maybe not – at least not imminent.
    But based on having WB on there, CFC should be on that list as well, EP.

  25. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM

    Nasty City
    @21 big fat liar

  26. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:15 PM

    COF – Capital One Financial. As financially strapped borrowers start leaving higher balances on their credit cards, COF and other issuers record more “income” (despite posting some measly – and insufficient – “reserves”). The math is that the reserve amount is the result of a multiplier which includes a default estimate and a recovery estimate whereas the income has no such multiplier. Of course once these defaults come home to roost, COF will claim they had no idea their modeled defaults and recoveries were wrong – EXACTLY what AIG said. Sigh.

  27. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:21 PM

    26 “other issuers” = C, JPM, BAC. So stop picking only on COF (although they deserve it if only for plastering those stupid ads all over the subway showing that big red pushpin crashing through the hood of a yellow cab).

  28. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:27 PM

    27, look at YTD performance. C down 31%, BAC down 16%, COF up (!) 5.71%.
    I’ll concede JPM is up 6.67% but that’s due to their special role as the Fed’s right hand (which is bestowing untold wealth on them).

  29. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM

    27, look at YTD performance. C down 31%, BAC down 16%, COF up (!) 5.71%.
    I’ll concede JPM is up 6.67% but that’s due to their special role as the Fed’s right hand (which is bestowing untold wealth on them).

  30. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM

    Sovereign and Fifth Third are also tanking. There go the regionals.

  31. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM

    Drexel Burnham Lambert

  32. Posted by guest | September 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM

    Hows Pierce and Pierce holding up?

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