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A Mulligan on ABN AMRO Anyone?

A friend sent me this.  Do-over anyone?

What a difference a year makes: Just a little more than 1 year ago Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid $100bn for ABN Amro (80% cash).

For this amount, RBS could today buy:

Citibank $22.5bn,
Morgan Stanley $10.5bn,
Goldman Sachs $21.0bn,
Merrill Lynch $12.3bn,
Deutsche Bank $13.0bn and
Barclays $12.7bn,

And still have $8bn change

So the question is, how much for RBS?  At the close today, market cap was about $50bn.  Oh well.

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