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CFCI welcome the Bank of America (BAC) acquisition of Countrywide (CFC), as for the first time I can remember BAC acts as a contrarian investor. I really don't know what CFC is worth but I know it is worth more in BAC's hands than as a standalone company.

BAC will be able to provide CFC with liquidity and staying power to survive through the current crisis. In other words it brings continuity to the table. Customers and partners that were having second thoughts about dealing with CFC are likely to stick around now.

I applaud this deal because typically these are done at the top of the market, but BAC found the restraint to wait till things went to hell. Yes, it was early with its first purchase, but picking bottoms is not easy, even for almighty BAC.


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  1. Marcus Kelley on January 13, 2008 5:16 am

    More likely this is a face saving or government encouraged deal, BoA could probably have picked up the stock for free in the looming bankruptcy plus now the lawyers will have a fat carcass to feed on for all the predatory lending suits.

  2. Dean Parisian on January 13, 2008 7:53 pm

    This deal is about saving their original 2 billion dollar investment they made, nothing else.

    I doubt if Mr. Lewis likes to buy shoddy merchandise any more than than the rest of us but he is putting the house’s money on the line to save face and to bail out his original purchase of Countrywide shares.

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