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Berkshire Hathaway Credit Risk, Index Puts Are Overblown Worries

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc:

* says has 'nominal' collateral requirements that would take effect were credit rating agencies to reconsider triple-A rating - spokeswoman

* collateral requirements would total 'far below 1 percent of assets' - spokeswoman


On Nov 20 04:11 PM levin70 wrote:

> The only problem with your analysis is you don't know what happends
> to the collateral requirements if BRK looses its AAA rating. If
> that happends, my guess is just like AIG it must put up collateral.
> If that happends anytime over the next year, that collateral requirement
> could cause the liquidity crunch you don't think will happen.

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> Kind Regards