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Merckle's investment company, VEM, owes banks €5 billion. For the past two months, Merckle had been entrenched in negotiations with some 40 banks, including Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and public bank Landesbank Baden-Wüerttemberg, to get a bridge loan to keep VEM afloat...
...played a high-stakes game, at one point threatening the banks that he would file for bankruptcy, which would have left creditors empty-handed. Merckle seemed to have a chance of refinancing his business when at the end of December banks granted him a reprieve on loans that were due to be repaid at Christmas, pending the outcome of further refinancing talks in January. According to a report in the Finanicial Times Deutschland on Monday, banks had promised Merckle a €400 million bridge loan...
...Because what we have is not a crisis of liquidity but rather a crisis of confidence. With tremendous excess reserves, it is obviously not the case that banks are not lending money because they do not have the money to loan. Instead, they are afraid that other institutions, including other banks, will not pay it back. The banks do not have confidence in each other. Businesses, too, are disinclined to borrow money and take risks. And consumers are not spending because they are afraid they could lose their jobs...
...Bush authorized for Chrysler and GM will buy Chrysler some time, there are difficult issues ahead. Unless labor costs can be brought down to parity with the foreign transplants, and without the restructuring of Chrysler's debt, the company cannot be restored to long-term health and the government loan will be unlikely to be fully repaid. (Read about GM's, Ford's and Chrysler's bailout plans...
Chrysler also eliminated 25% of its salaried- employee positions on the day before Thanksgiving, and plans to press ahead with demands for more cuts from the United Auto Workers. Cerberus has agreed to utilize the first $2 billion of proceeds from Chrysler Financial to backstop the loan allocated to Chrysler automotive...