UBS in shareholder plea as subprime fallout weighs
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UBS AG  has appealed to its shareholders to back a capital injection by the Singapore government and a Middle East investor but warned it still cannot predict how the subprime crisis will play out.
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Troubles with subprime mortgages cast a shadow over the stock market last week as investors worried about a potential growth in losses on loans to risky borrowers. Still, stocks managed to eke out small gains.
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Business & money: Bank's management faces hostile shareholder meeting amid signs fate is in the government's hands
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the possibility of more write-downs and chance of legal entanglements from the subprime mortgage crisis could sideline suitors for now, analysts said on Tuesday.
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The discount broker is in talks with UBS to sell its capital markets division.
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Bankers remain wary of plans to  launch a massive investment rescue fund to soften the blow of  the U.S. subprime meltdown, saying it could interfere with a  market recovery and stall a resolution to the credit crisis.
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Swiss banking giant UBS said on Wednesday it would post a full-year loss of 4.4 billion Swiss francs (3.5 billion dollars, 2.75 billion euros) for 2007 due to its exposure to the US subprime crisis.
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Will Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns mention subprime troubles when they report earnings?
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This week's stock market  slide provides a stark storm warning for global business  leaders and policymakers meeting in Switzerland, as pleas for  some form of coordinated policy response rise.
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HSBC Holdings Plc's  U.S. subprime unit scheduled a management conference call with its staff on Friday amid concern about layoffs and even a winding down of operations, two employees at the unit said.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's  management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the specter of more write-downs and possible legal entanglements from the subprime credit crisis might keep suitors on the sidelines, analysts said on Tuesday.
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UBS AG  said it cannot predict the final impact of the subprime crisis but that a new capital injection would strengthen its position as it called on shareholders to support its emergency capital hike.
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UBS , struck with billions of dollars of writedowns on subprime exposures, is trying to persuade investment bankers to stay with the company by allowing them to sell some of their share-based bonuses after just one year, the Financial Times reported.
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Northern Rock's  180,000 investors next week face a choice between keeping a say in the future of the troubled British bank or hampering the chance of a rescue at a critical time.
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Subprime-related problems at UBS AG mounted on Wednesday as the Swiss bank unveiled $4 billion in new write-downs in a surprise statement and sank deep into the red for the year.
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UBS AG  reported its first quarterly loss in five years after hefty writedowns on subprime-related investments, but said it expects to turn in a group profit in the last quarter.
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UBS AG on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $11.28 billion, and a loss for the entire year, besieged as other banks were by investments in U.S. subprime mortgages.