Is A-B Being Bought Out?

Yesterday morning, on the floor of the Miller regional meeting, your editor first heard a rumor of a supposed buyout of Anheuser-Busch by a rich LBO maverick Eddie Lampert and his ESL Investments hedge fund (who bought out K-Mart and then Sears). The rumor was that he was offering $56 a share. I got online and checked the stock, however, and it hadn't moved discernibly, so we thought nothing of it.Today, the stock has moved, and the rumor has hit