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HSBC Raises $17.7 Billion in Stock Sale - NYTimes.com

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the bank sold 4.9 billion shares, or 96.6 percent of the stock offered, to existing shareholders at £2.54, or $3.77, each or $15,080,000,000
Shares in the so-called rights issue were sold at a 41 percent discount to the company’s closing share price in London on Friday and yielded HSBC $17.7 billion net of expenses.
unsold shares would be acquired by its underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs International and JPMorgan Cazenove
a major 2002 move into the American market through the acquisition of Household Finance, a subprime mortgage lender, has been an albatross around its neck, costing billions of dollars in loan impairments and goodwill write-downs. It plans to close the business.
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