B of A: Raising Capital and Not Raising Capital (BAC)

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Is Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) raising more capital or is it not?  It depends upon which news service you believe.  The FT reported that the company was seeking to raise as much as $10 billion in new capital.  Now we have stories from both Bloomberg and from CNBC that the bank has denied the FT report

Either way, a capital raise at this point right before the stress test results are due would be (or would have been) a total credibility blow to Bank of America management and CEO Ken Lewis.  The company could probably justify a capital raise if it was used to immediately pay back TARP money, but anything outside of that would be a credibility destroyer.

After the developments of last week and the months before this, that is something the bank and that shareholders cannot afford.

JON C. OGG

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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