If market was near bottom and oversold and interest rates lowered close to zero, you would see many publicly traded companies making deals or at least talking about going private or increasing stock buyback plans. I don't think banks buying other banks for the real estate value of their branches counts.
We are still seeing liquidations of equity positions form funds since this big part of the mess only started from June.
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