Top 25 companies taking losses from the Lehman Bros collapse

[yllus]

Click through to the link to see the amounts each of the top twenty-five were liable for. They're... big numbers.

Economics of Contempt: The Fed's Backup Plan(s) for Lehman

Here are the last of the documents from the Lehman Examiner's Report that I found interesting. The first is a list of the top 25 Lehman counterparties by exposure. (CCE is current credit exposure; MPE is maximum potential exposure.)

The two counterparties with the highest exposure to Lehman? The Italian government, and Berkshire Hathaway (BH Finance LLC is a Berkshire sub).

 

[LegendKiller]

Those aren't pure dollar exposures, they are notional value, big difference.

 

[yllus]

I figured, else the world would have already exploded. 😱

 

[piasabird]

If you invest and the company goes under, kiss your money goodbye. There is a reason why stock brokers say to be deversified. If you are not diversified, then you lose all your money at once. Too bad, they lose.