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...Asian countries are growing at least three times as fast, most analysts view Nomura's acquisition of Lehman's Asia assets for $225 million as a steal. MUFG, too, was already looking beyond Japan for growth. In August, it paid $3.5 billion to buy the remaining 35% of Union Bank of California that it didn't already own. Union Bank of California has a relatively healthy balance sheet and its stock is undervalued, analysts...
...hasn't just been Japanese companies that have been looking greedily West. Before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy it was in negotiations with the state-owned Korean Development Bank, which was contemplating an investment of up to $6 billion. But partly due to political pressure at home, KDB backed off. Koreans questioned why the country's investment arm should bail out a failing Wall Street firm. Asked an Internet blogger: "Didn't we see what happened to the Chinese...
...that does not mean the Chinese aren't interested. CIC bought 9.9% of Morgan Stanley in December for $5.5 billion; last week Gao Xiqing, CIC's chief investment officer, was in New York for talks with Mack about expanding that stake. But buying 10% or more of the investment bank would have required a U.S. government review, a process that would be much easier for a private deal coming from a close U.S. ally than one coming from a government controlled sovereign wealth fund from China. "You have the [U.S. Treasury Department]asking the taxpayers to absorb...
...That left an opportunity for MUFG, and it took it. Time will tell if the Japanese bank made the right move. In the 1980s, when Japan was booming, its companies bought a series of U.S. assets - from movie studios to the Pebble Beach golf course - that subsequently plunged in value, generating a fair bit of xenophobic resentment in the process. Now, it's Tokyo to the rescue on Wall Street. The Japanese are hoping that having learned the hard lessons of their own banking disaster a decade ago, they can now make some money navigating the one unfolding across...
...told the News that the increase is costing the school about $8,000 per day. With nearly eight times as many variable-rate bonds issued, Harvard could potentially be losing significantly more. The rate increases at Princeton can be partially attributed to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that underwrote the bonds issued by the New Jersey university. Harvard refused to disclose the name of the firm that underwrote their outstanding public debt, but the University has had at least two fixed-rate bond issuances in 2008, both announced Jan. 23 at sums of $243 million...