DealBook : British Billionaire Takes Bear Stearns Stake
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Joseph C. Lewis, the British billionaire who was once the largest shareholder in Christieâs, has built up a big stake in another well-known company: Bear Stearns.
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Bear Stearns &amp; Companies said Tuesday that its asset management arm had agreed to acquire the TimesSquare Capital Management bond business of the Cigna Corporationin New York.
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NEW YORK, June 22 -- Bear Stearns confirmed Friday it will bail out one of its troubled hedge funds with $3.2 billion in secured loans, but the Wall Street firm sought to convince the broader market that its troubles were "relatively contained."
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it is buying Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars), bolstering the LSE amid takeovers of European stock markets by US rivals.
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Pearson Plc, owner of the Financial Times, agreed to sell its 79 percent stake in Spanish publisher Recoletos Grupo de Comunicacion SA as part of a management buyout that values the company at 941 million euros ($1.2 billion).
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Abbey National today looked set for Spanish ownership after banking group HBOS declared it was no longer considering a rival bid. Here are the key dates in the long-running saga over the troubled bankâs future.
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Billionaire UK investor Joseph Lewis spends $860m buying a 7% stake in struggling US bank Bear Stearns.
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Prudential has surprised investors with plans for a one billion pound rights issue largely to fund expansion in the UK. Shares in Britain&#39;s second-largest listed insurer
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Barclays Bank Plc  on  Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc  of using two  hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload  troubled assets.
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Investment funds controlled by British billionaire Joseph Lewis have amassed a seven percent stake in Wall Street investment bank and brokerage Bear Stearns, a US securities filing showed Monday.
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Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, a London-based buyout firm, agreed to buy UK vacation and insurance company Saga Ltd. for 1.35 billion pounds ($2.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday replaced the head of its asset management business after two of the investment bank's hedge funds hit rock bottom by making bad bets on risky mortgages.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on  Friday replaced the head of its asset management business after  two of the investment bank&#39;s hedge funds hit rock bottom by  making bad bets on risky mortgages.
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Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne resigns amid the US investment bank's losses in the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, agrees to buy 51% of Korea Exchange Bank for $6.3bn.
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Joseph C. Lewis, who became a billionaire trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc &lt;BSC.N&gt;, snapping up about $860 million worth of the investment bank's stock over the past two months.
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LONDON  - Shares in Abbey National PLC, Britain's sixth-biggest bank and second-biggest mortgage lender, traded for the last time Friday ahead of the completion of its &#36;15.6 billion US acquisition by Santander Central Hispano SA, Spain's biggest bank.