RE:TD's Take looks to me this looks like it's created a buying opportunity in bmo with this sell off, the market smells blood in that they would probably do some kind of financing to make this purchase, if they make it. bmo has a m/c of about 87b and it sounds like this aquisition would be around 13b (not sure if that was cdn or usd) so around 15% of bmo's current valuation or a bit higher if usd. they should be easily able to handle it without getting stuck with high cost financings. td likes the possible takeover metrics so that's good enough for me to add here, lol.
cheers ferret