Bank of America to buy Countrywide for $4 billion
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday that it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.
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Bank of America said to be in talks to buy beleaguered lender Countrywide Financial.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  is  working to structure another strategic investment similar to  the deal Bank of America Corp  struck last month, the  New York Post reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday said it agreed to acquire struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for about $4 billion in stock, a move that could help avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Investors found renewed confidence in a report that Bank of America is close to buying the struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial.
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday it would buy mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for $4 billion in a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Countrywide Financial Corp ,  the battered mortgage lender being acquired by Bank of America  Corp , posted a $422 million fourth-quarter loss on  Tuesday, hurt by mounting defaults in a sinking housing market.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , whose shares have tumbled amid worries about the largest U.S. mortgage lender's survival prospects, on Wednesday said it made more loans than it expected in the fourth quarter, though homeowner foreclosures and delinquencies rose.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10 -- Countrywide Financial shares more than doubled Thursday after reports that Bank of America was in discussions to buy the nation's largest mortgage lender.
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Bank of America Corp, the  second-largest U.S. bank, is in advanced talks to buy  Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, a  person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Bank of America Corp, the second-largest U.S. bank, is in advanced talks to buy Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp   posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its  shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it  expects to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and  has weathered the worst of the housing downturn.
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The fourth-largest U.S. bank said it benefited from the acquisition of Golden West Financial Corp. and higher loans.
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Bank of America will pay in stock for Countrywide Financial, the lender that became a symbol of the excesses that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
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WASHINGTON - Countrywide Financial Corp. , the biggest US mortgage lender, fell for the fourth straight day in New York trading after regulators began an informal investigation of stock sales by chief executive Angelo Mozilo.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. tried to calm depositors and home buyers yesterday with assurances it would continue operating in Massachusetts and nationwide, one day after a $2 billion capital infusion by Bank of America Corp.
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Kenneth D. Lewis has gambled on bold acquisitions to build Bank of America into the nationâs largest bank, but  few of his bets match the acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corporation.