Treasury: no decision yet on bank stock warrants

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department and the nation’s largest banks are still negotiating over what price the government should receive for stock warrants and an announcement has been delayed until next week.

Treasury Department spokeswoman Meg Reilly says the announcement is expected no earlier than Monday.

The department formally acknowledged that it had received $68 billion in repayments of bailout funds on Wednesday. The largest amounts were $25 billion received from JPMorgan Chase & Co., and $10 billion each from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

The stock warrants Treasury holds represent a final barrier to the banks’ ending their ties to the bailout program. The warrants allow Treasury to buy the banks’ stock at a fixed price at some future date.