dann muß ich feststellen, daß AIG sich doch sehr gut gehalten hat.
Zu gestern sogar ein leichtes Plus. Denke der Boden hat sich
gebildet. Es kann nur noch aufwärts gehen.
Eure Einschätzung bitte!!!
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By Paritosh Bansal NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some buyers interested in American International Group's assets see the U.S. government as a potential source of financing, but such help is not likely to be forthcoming. Several AIG assets are worth billions of dollars, and with the credit markets still frozen and stock prices swooning, potential buyers will find it hard to come up with the money to buy them, investment bankers and lawyers said. But the government is heavily invested in the future of the erstwhile insurance giant, so some advisers see financing from the United States as a possibility, they said. The government has not said it would finance any asset sales and it will be reluctant to do so, even more so after easing the terms of its loan to AIG, these experts said. But they added that there may be little choice when it comes to selling at least some of the bigger units of the troubled insurer. "In some circumstance if there were no other choice, the government may say it's a better credit risk to take the buyer's debt and in effect trade out," said William Bates, a mergers partner at law firm King & Spalding. "But again, their interest in going into AIG was to keep the system from failing," he said. "And I am not sure seller financing supports that rationale." AIG, once the world's biggest insurer by market value, averted bankruptcy in September with an $85 billion federal bailout. Last week, the government revised its bailout package, raising its support to $150 billion. It eased the terms of the loan and put in place a plan to stem the cash drain at AIG. AIG has said it plans to sell everything except for its U.S. property and casualty, foreign general insurance and an ownership interest in foreign life operations. The new bailout package is designed to give AIG breathing room, with a cheaper loan and more time to pay it back, but the company still needs to sell assets to repay the government debt. If credit markets do not thaw, some assets such as AIG's U.S. life insurance may be beyond the reach of any one company without government help. Bernstein analysts estimated in early October that the U.S. life unit could be worth $23.4 billion to $33.8 billion depending on the multiple to book value used. "Very few buyers have excess cash, and certainly that much excess cash," said Gary Parr, deputy chairman of Lazard Ltd, referring to large AIG assets in general. "It is a logical discussion to say to the government, which is the primary owner and creditor, 'We'd like some financing please.' Whether they would provide it or not, time will tell," Parr said at the Reuters Global Finance Summit last week. "I am quite sure the government would rather not provide financing," he added. A government financing, which could be come in forms such as taking a buyer's preferred or common stock, would raise many contentious issues, like who gets funding and on what terms. Moreover, seller financing would still leave the government exposed to AIG when it may want to get out of the insurer. "The political pressure would be for them to get out," said Barnabas Reynolds, head of financial institutions advisory group at law firm Shearman & Sterling. "The question then is, 'What's their appetite for compromise? Will they compromise on price? Will they compromise on financing?'" Potential buyers are likely not working on the assumption that government help will be there. They are searching for other ways to find financing for deals such as talking to sovereign wealth funds, but the market may not be too promising. The new bailout package for AIG may take away the urgency to sell assets, allowing the insurer to wait for credit markets to recover, but the rescue by itself does not change the issues faced by would-be buyers. "It doesn't surprise me that people are trying to talk about seller financing," Bates said. But he added, "I can't imagine the government getting more deeply involved in that respect." (Editing by Matthew Lewis) © Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved
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Also wenn`s morgen, resp. heute wirklich zur grossen Party kommt, bin ich selbstverständlich dabei. Aber diesen Schock von heute muss ich erstmals verdauen...
noch so nebenbei, wenigstens haben wir Schweizer gewonnen, 1:0 gegen die Finnen... wenigstens ein erfreuliches Ereignis für mich :-)
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