Warren Buffett’s Death-Spiral Deal

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Heard on the Street: Berkshire Hathaway’s financing of Occidental Petroleum’s Anadarko deal could see it own a large chunk of the company if it gets paid in shares

The Oracle of Omaha wouldn’t stoop to a borderline-legal financing technique associated with penny-stock financiers.

Yet, while it was never his intention, Berkshire Hathaway might wind up with a chunk of discounted shares in Occidental Petroleum in a pattern similar to so-called death-spiral financing. The technique involves a company that is unable to raise public equity directly and instead issues debt privately to an outside source; the debt becomes convertible into stock for a fixed dollar amount rather than a fixed number...

 

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I feel so sorry for OXY !!! Not.

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The oracle at it again

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