OMB Talks Preceded Sallie Mae Stock Sale
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Congressional investigators yesterday disclosed that Sallie Mae executives met with Bush administration budget officials in December, less than two months before the company chairman sold $18.3 million of Sallie Mae stock. Three days after the sale, President Bush unveiled a budget that included...
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Sallie Mae , the largest U.S.  educational lending company, said it sold $1 billion of  convertible securities and $2 billion of common stock, raising  more money than it had expected to pay off bad derivatives  bets.
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Student lending company SLM Corp  , or Sallie Mae, said on Wednesday the U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission is investigating the company's  disclosures in December 2007, before and after executives and  directors traded in its stock.
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Bank of America Corp is in advanced talks to buy struggling Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, several people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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The consortium that had agreed to buy Sallie Mae for $25 billion may scuttle the deal if it is unable to negotiate a lower price.
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Shares in US mortgage giant Countrywide soar on reports that it is in talks to be acquired by Bank of America.
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Sallie Mae, the Reston student loan company, said yesterday that it would try to raise $2.5 billion by issuing new stock and use the proceeds to help it satisfy a standing agreement to repurchase its shares.
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Danversbank is headed to Wall Street. The $1.2 billion-asset bank has applied to the state Division of Banks to become a publicly traded company. The bank filed an application last week to convert from a mutual bank, owned by its depositors, to stock ownership. Sandler O'Neil and Partners LP, an investment bank, will handle the stock sale, which must be ...
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TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.   has been talking to rival online brokers about potential deals,  its CEO said the day after the company disclosed that two hedge  funds had pushed it to pursue a merger.
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Business & money: Shares jump more than 12% after embattled bank reveals takeover offers.
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U.S. stocks gained on Thursday after news Bank of America  is in advanced talks to buy struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp .
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Dow Jones & Company board members met with Ronald W. Burkle and Brad Greenspan, who are interested in buying a piece of the company.
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Banks led European equities lower on Friday, but bid activity helped keep the market afloat after Nasdaq made an offer for Stockholm bourse operator OMX.
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Sallie Mae , the largest U.S. educational lending company, said it sold $1 billion of convertible securities and $2 billion of common stock, raising more money than it had expected to pay off bad derivatives bets.
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Countrywide Financial, the troubled lender that became a symbol of the excesses that led to the subprime mortgage crisis, is negotiating a sale to Bank of America.
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Sallie Mae chairman Albert L. Lord acknowledged that he was facing a potentially hostile bunch yesterday when he addressed shareholders for the first time since his effort to sell the student loan company collapsed.
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A group of private equity firms and banks have threatened to scuttle their planned $25 billion buyout of Sallie Mae, the student lender said on Wednesday, in the most dramatic sign yet that a once-booming takeover market may be cooling.