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Bush's billionaire friend sold £100m of shares just days before scandal broke[Societe Generale]
Daily Mail ^ | 03 Feb 2008 | Daily Mail

Posted on 02/03/2008 8:29:20 PM PST by BGHater

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Another Day, another dollar.

Seriously, the timeline doesn’t work to show any insider information. SG management did not become aware of the magnitude of the trading irregularities until Friday, 18 January. The trades on 9 and 10 January should be clear and my guess is he would have had to put his order in for the 18th sale at least two days before execution.

SG share price was down from its peak of eur158 to around EUR95; the global economy and equities looked soft. Probably looked to take some profit. The fact that he kept over a million shares shows that he wasn’t aware of the looming problems.

In France anything they can do to blame Bush they’ll find a way.


21 posted on 02/03/2008 10:41:26 PM PST by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
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