Wall Street firms fall

AP
Wall Street awakes to 2 storied firms falling

By Joe Bel Bruno, Christopher S. Rugaber and Martin Crutsinger, AP Business Writers

2 storied Wall Street firms fall as US financial markets roiled by further shock waves

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had fallen.
Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed. Bank of America Corp. said it is snapping up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in a $50 billion all-stock transaction.

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