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BBC2 - 10 mins

  • 22-01-2009 9:48pm
    #1
    MarkN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,323 ✭✭✭


    Fast Bucks: How Porsche Made Billions.
    10.00pm. BBC2.
    Over two days in October 2008, one of the most amazing stories of the downturn emerged. Porsche, the luxury sports car manufacturer, was revealed as the force behind an audacious takeover bid for Volkswagen. The price of Volkswagen shares rocketed fivefold, and it briefly became the most valuable company on the planet. And hedge funds that had been betting on VW shares falling in the downturn found themselves staring at losses that ran into billions of pounds. Now the German authorities are investigating. It has been alleged that the much smaller German car maker Porsche manipulated the market, made a fortune and ended up potentially taking over its rival. Porsche insists it has done nothing wrong. But for years it has quietly stalked its larger rival, buying up VW shares in a creeping takeover and making vast profits in dealings on those shares.


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  • #2
    robbie99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭robbie99


    Dam I missed that. Do you think it will be repeated anytime soon?


  • #3
    MarkN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,323 ✭✭✭MarkN


    It'll probably be here soon.

    http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/signup

    It was more a financial documentary than a car one though. A few generations of 911s shown though.


  • #4
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Feck... And i watching other ****e then lol. Anything else good on? 300+ channels and nothing motoring related.


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