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...efforts to 'de-risk' Wachovia's problem loans may help in the near term, we still expect losses to exceed management's expectations," wrote analyst Paul Miller, who follows banks at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent report to clients. Miller, who rates Wells' shares "underperform," expects Wells' stock to fall by half its current price to $12. "Given our macro outlook ... we just can't get comfortable with Wells' balance sheet...
...Merging AOL with Time Warner in 2000 could have and should have been a brilliant move, not just for Case, who made zillions by converting high-flying Internet stock (and a bit of fuzzy accounting) into real money, but for the world's biggest media company too. By the turn of the century, it had become apparent that the value of content was plummeting as more and more media were digitized. Time Warner's video, music and print, and especially its cable company, could have and should have rallied around AOL as the solution. AOL and Time Warner Cable...
...company put Saab, Opel, Saturn and Hummer up for sale, then killed Pontiac. (Marchionne promptly entered fire-sale bids for Opel and Saab.) As the expected bankruptcy filing approached, plans were under way for a complicated stock deal that would render existing shares essentially worthless. Secured bondholders were being offered full payment in new company stock, while others were being told to expect far less...
...money, they were in no position to irritate the Treasury Department. GM's debt is more widely dispersed, however, which makes it harder to muscle a settlement. To avoid a morass in court, the task force agreed at the 11th hour to fully repay GM's secured lenders, using stock in the reorganized company...
...Spinning AOL off is a good move for AOL. With his Google pedigree, Tim Armstrong appears to be the right person for the job. AOL can soon sell its own stock and raise money to do what big Internet companies must do, especially now: buy the great (undervalued) start-ups that are creating the future. The only question that remains is, What happens to the rest of Time Warner? That's another story...