Bank of America to buy Countrywide for $4 billion
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp in a $4 billion transaction that could help avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.
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Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, will compensate as many as 4,500 black and Hispanic borrowers under an agreement announced yesterday with New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer.
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Countrywide Financial Corp, the mortgage lender that agreed this month to be acquired by Bank of America Corp, posted a larger-than-expected $421.9 million quarterly loss on Tuesday, as more homeowners fell behind on payments.
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Bank of America agrees to buy the troubled mortgage lender for ''bargain-basement'' price of around $4 billion.
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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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Bank of America Corp.  Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis pledged on Thursday to complete the $21 billion acquisition of all of LaSalle Bank from ABN AMRO Holding NV  early in the fourth quarter.
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Stocks rose on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report that Bank of America  is in talks to buy mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  sent financial stocks higher.
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Bank of America Corp  said on Friday it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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British estate agency firm Countrywide  is in talks to be acquired by U.S. buyout group Apollo Management, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest US bank, said it will retain the U.S. Trust name for its private wealth-management business when it buys the business from Charles Schwab Corp. in July.
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Similar deals are expected to follow  Bank of America Corp's  agreement on Friday to acquire  battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for  a knock-down price of $4 billion in stock.
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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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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the battered mortgage lender being acquired by Bank of America Corp , posted a $421.9 million fourth-quarter loss on Tuesday, hurt by mounting defaults in a sinking housing market.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Thursday that it had lined up $12 billion of secured financing to help cope with a housing slowdown that has reduced loan demand and will lead to widespread layoffs.
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Countrywide Financial, the nationâs largest mortgage lender, said yesterday that it had lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that it expects to lead to widespread layoffs.
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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.