Merrill Lynch’s stock price bounced nicely at the end of July, up 17% on the day following its sale to Lone Star of $30.6 billion in face value of US super-senior CDOs of ABS for just 22 cents on the dollar. Analysts applauded its bravery in taking this big hit to get out from under its most toxic asset problem rather than creeping along from one quarterly write-down to the next. Stock investors seemed relieved that a big uncertainty has been removed and the US market swallowed the biggest ever follow-on public equity offering of $8.55
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