美国投资银行摩根大通把对陷入困境的对手贝尔斯登公司的收购竞价从每股两美元提高到十美元左右。
接近公司的消息人士说，提高竞价是为了平息贝尔斯登股东们对摩根大通所出低价的强烈反对。
摩根大通根据一项由美国联邦储备委员会支持的拯救协议同意收购贝尔斯登。
纽约时报报导说，联邦储备委员会不愿意为提价的贝尔斯通收购交易融资。
该报说，中央银行不希望被人看成是花费纳税人的钱来拯救一家应为其冒险行为自负责任的银行。
U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase has raised its takeover offer for troubled rival Bear Stearns from two-dollars a share to about 10 dollars.
Sources close to the companies say J.P. Morgan’s higher bid is meant to appease Bear Stearns shareholders who strongly objected to the lower price.
J.P. Morgan agreed to buy Bear Stearns earlier this month in a rescue deal backed by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The New York Times says the Federal Reserve is reluctant to help finance J.P. Morgan’s higher bid for Bear Stearns.
The newspaper says the central bank does not want to be seen as spending taxpayers’ money to bail out a bank that should take responsibility for its own risky behavior.