/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54063909
>Meanwhile, Bitcoin is stronger than ever
Really? Than ever??

>>54033180
Final/10
Above that, though, I have no idea. The stock closed at $106.04 per share yesterday (a $6.2 billion market cap, roughly 50% of book value), and was halted today. The preferred was trading at about 60 cents on the dollar yesterday, also closed today. Byrne Hobart wrote the bull case yesterday:

>The simple way to look at SVB from an investing perspective is to separate the ongoing business from the balance sheet for a moment, and ask: what premium does SVB's business deserve to book value, in a hypothetical world where they didn't make a massive rates bet? Over the last twenty years, they've traded at an average of 2.3x tangible book value, and generally at a premium to their banking peers. So a simple way to value the business is to say that the fair value of the business is generally ~100 cents on the dollar in liquidating value and another ~130 cents on the dollar in franchise value. If that liquidating value has been vaporized by a rates bet, the surviving business is still worth a premium to book.

But that was yesterday, and the franchise value melts pretty quickly when you go into FDIC receivership. The bear case is … well, back in November, when crypto exchange FTX was still looking for a rescue (it never found one), I wrote that the traditional price for that sort of rescue is “we will buy your exchange, make sure that all your customers are made whole, and give you a Snickers bar in exchange for 100% of the equity.” That may be where this is heading.

>>49898629
Colbert was arrested for trespassing in an area he was told would be closed to the public after a certain hour. The capitol is extra-nervous right now.
BECAUSE our government fears the populace, as Jefferson intended. They sometimes put up fencing for protection around it, instead of just arbitrarily rounding up citizenry for having "poor attitudes about government" and putting them behind bars.
You sad, brainwashed idiot.