Bankrupt Nortel Networks extends the deadline to make offers for the optical networking unit it's selling, as it looks like nobody is yet topping Ciena's (CIEN -2.1%) stalking-horse bid of $390M and 10M shares (about $515M total).
I believe you meant to say "...and the common stock is now worth very little" instead. The company is being auctioned off to collect "a few" bucks (loonies though). Oh, BTW, I worked for NT in the early seventies and I wonder why the Canadian government did not bail it out. I always thought that Canada is much more "socialistic" than its cousin to the south. Whereas, surprise, we have had so many bailouts of late. Mind boggling. Would you care to comment?
TK
On Nov 10 11:53 AM Graham and Dodd Investor wrote:
> Nortel was once a great company, overreached, and is now worth very > little.
David White: XCEO Surma said seeing softness in pricing in Nov. from Oct. before any of this negative news. Likely seeing more softness now.
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David White: If oil is likely to go down near term, it likely means other commodities will too. Potash prices, etc. may be undercut. Steel too.
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Danny Devito: Sometime we shouldn't mention what we are buying or what we bought.. let them work on it (:-)) do you understand of which stock I'm talking?
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I believe you meant to say "...and the common stock is now worth very little" instead. The company is being auctioned off to collect "a few" bucks (loonies though). Oh, BTW, I worked for NT in the early seventies and I wonder why the Canadian government did not bail it out. I always thought that Canada is much more "socialistic" than its cousin to the south. Whereas, surprise, we have had so many bailouts of late. Mind boggling. Would you care to comment?
TK
On Nov 10 11:53 AM Graham and Dodd Investor wrote:
> Nortel was once a great company, overreached, and is now worth very
> little.
1. Says "eh"
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10. Lost money on Nortel...