Report: Rosneft to Borrow &#36;4.5 Billion
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State-owned Rosneft, which sparked wide speculation over how it will pay for its &#36;9.3 billion acquisition of the Yukos oil company's biggest production unit, is set to borrow over &#36;4.5 billion from unknown sources, a newspaper said Friday.
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Goldman Sachs is close to completing a 15 billion pound ($29.5 billion) financing package to be used by suitors for UK lender Northern Rock , the Sunday Times reported, adding details may be unveiled this week.
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Driving the companyâs loss, which amounts to $31.85 a share, was a $5.21 billion write-down on its portfolio of credit derivatives.
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Credit Suisse will seek to launch a  share buyback plan worth up to 6 billion Swiss francs ($5  billion), it said on Thursday, after reporting a better than  expected 22 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profits.
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Russia's YUKOS raised &#36;357 million to put toward a &#36;3.4 billion tax claim on Tuesday by selling a stake in a gas venture to partner TNK-BP, as analysts said the company was technically ready for bankruptcy.
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Russia&#39;s finance minister announced a $5.4 billion increase in funding for four key security agencies on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced his plan for combatting terrorism.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Nina Kulikova) - On December 22 state-owned Rosneft purchased 100% of Baikal Finance Group, the mystery bidder that purchased a 76.6% stake in Yuganskneftgaz at auction.
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Russia's state-controlled gas giant Gazprom approved a plan to bid for Yukos' core production unit Wednesday amid reports that the company was negotiating to secure a &#36;13 billion loan from a group of Western banks to support its offer.
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MOSCOW  - Assets of Russia's beleaguered Yukos oil company should be sold for at least &#36;15 billion US, a senior official said Monday, as the company's main production unit is evaluated for sale against a crushing back-tax bill.
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NEW YORK/DETROIT  - Ford Motor Co.  said on Monday it plans to borrow $18 billion by pledging assets as collateral, an unprecedented requirement that highlights its worsening financial condition.
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[World News]: Moscow, Dec 30 : China&#39;s CNPC oil and gas corporation would be offered up to 20 per cent stake in Yuganskneftegaz, earlier acquired by Russia&#39;s state-owned Rosneft oil major ahead of its merger with Gazprom gas monopoly.
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The Russian government set a starting price of $1.93 billion for its 7.6 percent stake in oil giant Lukoil that goes up for auction next month, according to a report published early Friday.
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Russia's Yukos oil company has paid &#36;2.2 billion of its &#36;3.4 billion tax bill for 2000, Yukos' top finance official said Friday, as he renewed warnings that the embattled company was close to bankruptcy.
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AMSTERDAM -- Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal yesterday said he would pay $4.5 billion in cash and stock for US steelmaker International Steel Group Inc., which had been cobbled together by onetime investment banker Wilbur L. Ross Jr. from mills whose parents landed in bankruptcy court.
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The company, battered by the subprime crisis, said it would sell a $5 billion stake to a Chinese investment.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government is offering Bombardier up to &#36;1.5 billion in loan guarantees to support the sale of as many as 45 regional passenger jets to Air Canada.
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Microsoft said that it might borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo.