Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The differance between 2008 Jan & Now

On this day, 1 year ago......... .. RBS paid $100bn for ABN Amro.

For this amount , today one can buy.......

1. Citibank $22.5bn
2.
Morgan Stanley $10.5bn
3.
Goldman Sachs $21bn
4.
Merrill Lynch $12.3bn
5.
Deutsche Bank $13bn
6. Barclays $12.7bn

And still have $8bn change...... with which, one would be able to pick up

GM,
Ford,
Chrysler and
the Honda F1 Team............

1 comment:

Sid Soni said...

And perhaps if you wait a little longer, you can and a couple of more bigwigs to the list.

Amidst all of these, one might never be able to place the likes of Coke, Smirnoff, Bingo or the likes...