B of A CEO & Insiders Buying Stock (BAC)

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B_of_a_logo_3Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was already trading as though the options traders were placing a bet today “against nationalization” and now we are getting more news from the company.  SEC filings are showing that key company insiders are buying up stock now that the shares are trading below $5.00.

CEO KEN LEWIS:
02/04/2009 bought 75,000 at $4.78
02/04/2009 bought 66,000 at $4.79
02/04/2009 bought 50,000 at $4.81
02/04/2009 bought 9,000 at $4.80….
Total direct ownership is 1,660,997

Temple Sloan, Jr., Director
02/05/2009 bought 95,000 at $4.53…
275,757 direct shares owned although an options “V” may make this 230,757 shares directly owned.

Virgis Colbert
02/04/2009 bought 15,000 shares at $4.78 and $4.775,
holds over 21,000 direct shares

Charles Rossotti, Director
02/04/2009 bought 10,000 shares at $4.91,
holds 19,929 direct shares

Brian Moynihan, Officer
02/05/20-09 bought 20,000 shares at $3.89
holds 333,607 direct shares

Tommy Franks (Gen.), Director
02/05/2009 bought 30,000 shares at $4.11
holds 40,979 direct shares

By the way, if you make these guys take a $500,000.00 salary, they won’t be able to buy stock directly again.

Jon C. Ogg
February 5, 2009

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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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