London’s MAN Group tells the real impact of the subprime mortgage meltdown – as leveraged M&A goes tougher so do the stock merkets worldwide
Karen Zuba
Jul. 20, 2007

They are facing deep trouble in the market place to raise capital. The liquidity providewrs are scared of losing money one way or the other because of subprime mortage meldown in US.

The immediate effrect is $100 billion in losses. But as the market percepttion is changing, and that cost trillions interms of harder M&A activities.

A ccording to reports from London, MAN Group on Thursday blamed concerns about the impact on the financial sector of defaults on home loans to the riskiest borrowers for raising only $2.9bn, against a target of $3.5bn-$3.8bn from floating MF Global, its brokerage arm. The shares closed down more than 8 per cent from the $30 listing price at $27.55.

This is just the tip of the oiceberg, analuysts point out. The subprime meltdown has created enough scare in the market place to make leveraged M&A activities harder. That will change the direction of the stock markets worldwide for a long time.

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