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Several money funds and institutional cash funds had significant exposure to Lehman with the institutional cash fund run by The Bank of New York Mellon and the Reserve Primary Fund, a money market fund, both falling below $1 per share, called "breaking the buck", following losses on their holdings of Lehman assets. In a statement The Bank of ...
According to bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas, the seeds of Lehman's Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy were sown in 2006, aggressively fertilized throughout 2007 and 2008's first two quarters, and ...
By early 2008 asset-backed and financial-sector commercial paper made up 56% of its portfolio. The September 15, 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers raised concern about Reserve Primary's holdings of Lehman-issued paper, which then made up 1.2% of its portfolio, as well as its other financial-sector paper. Among money market funds, Reserve ...
As Lehman Brothers teetered, a public debate raged: Would the U.S. government save it the way it saved Bear Stearns and AIG? The official line from the government was no. But many couldn't believe ...
The Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" as a result of its exposure to Lehman Brothers securities. [ 126 ] September 17, 2008: Investors withdrew $144 billion from U.S. money market funds , the equivalent of a bank run on money market funds , which frequently invest in commercial paper issued by corporations to fund their operations and ...
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Lehman Brothers Inc. (/ ˈ l iː m ən / LEE-mən) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. [2] Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), with about 25,000 employees worldwide.
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