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Re: MrBankRoll post# 187

Tuesday, 01/19/2010 2:03:20 PM

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They have to do the split to complete the acquisition of BNSF. Since part of the buyout is BRK shares for BNSF shares and the BRK shares need to be a lower dollar amount since they can't award fractional shares in all cases.

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