Thursday 24 January 2008

The cost of capital, America edition

Bank of America that is.

BofA is marketing $13B of securities according to Bloomberg:

The sale will be split between $5 billion to $6 billion of perpetual securities that may yield 8 percent, and $6 billion to $7 billion of convertibles that may yield 7.25 percent to 7.75 percent, said the person [familiar with the offering]

Why so much? Their writedown was only $5B. What do they need the other 7 for?

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Blogger The Social Pathologist said...

There is a lot more hurt coming.

10:55 pm  

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