Billionaire Lewis buys Bear Stearns stake
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Reclusive billionaire Joseph C. Lewis, who made his fortune trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up $860.4 million worth of the investment bank's sagging stock to become one of its largest shareholders in less than a month.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Kenneth D. Lewis has gambled on bold acquisitions to build Bank of America into the nationâs largest bank, but  few of his bets match the acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corporation.
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Morgan Stanley MWD.N and Bear  Stearns Cos. Inc. BSC.N, two of Wall Street's biggest  securities firms, on Tuesday said their quarterly profits rose  as a flurry of mergers and a year-end stock rally boosted  investment banking fees.
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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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The Carlyle Group has agreed to sell a minority stake to the Abu Dhabi government in a transaction that values the Washington-based private equity giant at nearly $20 billion. The deal will expand Carlyle&#8217;s capital base and its ties to a region that is raising its financial profile around the world. It could also [...].
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The UKâs oldest independent stockbroker was today being linked to a deal involving the sale of a 50% stake to US bank JP Morgan Chase.
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NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos. offered $3.2 billion in loans to bail out one of its failing hedge funds, the biggest rescue since 1998, after creditors started seizing assets and investors demanded their money back.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward  its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday  when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares  Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Bear Stearns Cos  shares soared  7.7 percent on Wednesday on a report that several investors,  including Warren Buffett, may buy part of the Wall Street  investment bank.
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Bear Stearns earned a big slice of Wall Street's growing pie.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , the biggest broker for US hedge funds, has offered to provide $1.5 billion in loans to help rescue a money-losing fund run by its asset management unit, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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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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A Dutch steelmaker led by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying U.S.-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would make it one of the largest steel companies in the world.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  said on Tuesday it snared three executives from rival companies to expand services to hedge fund clients.
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MADRID/NEW YORK  - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA , Spain's second-largest bank, agreed to buy Compass Bancshares Inc.  for $9.6 billion, realizing a long-held goal of gaining a solid foothold in fast-growing southern U.S. states.
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New York&#39;s JP Morgan Chase is buying a majority stake in Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.