Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dominique Pellissier wrote > BTW if the Leica stock increased, there is an explanation : the planned > repurchase of stoks by the holding. - -------------------------------------------------- Possible, but there could be another explanation. The German CDU party is in the middle of a massive corruption scandal complete with sleaze funds in the millions stashed in Swiss bank accounts and elsewhere. And its reputed to be the tip of the iceberg. Knowing the German propensity to leave paper trails of their mis-deeds, and the ecstatic media coverage, I can well imagine that the panic is creating a money laundering shift from offshore cash to home grown company shares in a big way. Imagine a John Clease type at the press conference fielding a question. What two billion dollars of undeclared contributions? Oh THAT two billion dollars. Well of course we wanted nothing to with it so we placed it where it would help ailing German industry ... :-) Alan