{"id":194311,"date":"2008-10-06T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/menage-a-bank\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:16:00","slug":"menage-a-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/menage-a-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Menage \u00e0 Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like Citi and Wells are going after it hammer and tongs over who gets wachovia.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/05\/business\/05bank.html\">Citi got a NY state judge to grant an injunction against Wells proceeding<\/a>, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=arQtN175Y75U&amp;refer=home\">Wachovia went to Federal Court to overturn that<\/a>, and he <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2008\/10\/ill-see-your-new-york-supreme.php\">vacated the lower court ruling<\/a>, as <a href=\"http:\/\/calculatedrisk.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/wachovia-battle-appellate-court-rules.html\">did a New York state appellate court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Citi was going to pay $1\/share, and getting money from the FDIC, and Wells is offering $7\/share with <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">no<\/span> FDIC involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what Citi&#8217;s motive is, but they seem to be eager to spend this money, for reasons that are unclear to me, particularly since they have lost money in the past few quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like Citi and Wells are going after it hammer and tongs over who gets wachovia. First, Citi got a NY state judge to grant an injunction against Wells proceeding, and then Wachovia went to Federal Court to overturn that, and he vacated the lower court ruling, as did a New York state &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1004,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}