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Report: BofA Investing $2 Billion in Countrywide
By: PAUL JACKSON
August 22, 2007
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Bank of America is making a $2 billion equity investment into troubled mortgage giant Countrywide Financial:
Bank of America will purchase $2 billion worth of preferred Countrywide stock yielding 7.25%, and that can be converted into common stock at $18 a share, those people said.
Remember when rumors were flying earlier in the year that BofA was going to buy Countrywide? Something tells me the purchase price just got a whole lot cheaper.
Update: Countrywide has since confirmed the investment, characterizing the investment as a “vote of confidence.”
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