Fund urges Barclays to drop ABN AMRO bid: reports
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New York activist hedge fund Atticus  Capital LP has acquired shares of British bank Barclays Plc   and is pushing the bank to drop its 63 billion-euro  ($84.6 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the  Financial Times reported on Monday.
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Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday lifted a major obstacle to a bid by Barclays of Britain to buy ABN Amro, ruling that ABN could sell its US subsidiary without shareholder approval.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING  - Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank that is leading a takeover bid for ABN Amro Holding, said it expected lower bad-debt provisions for the first half of the year, indicating its earnings will beat analystsâ estimates. Royal Bank said profit in the first half would be âslightly aheadâ of that implied by the market median estimate for full-year earnings per share of 72.1 pence ($1.43). That compares with 66.7 pence in 2006. The earnings update did not include comment on the offer that Royal Bank and its consortium has made for ABN Amro. A group led by Royal Bank has bid 71.1 billion euros ($95.6 billion), or 38.40 euros ($51.59) per ABN Amro share, making its offer about 10 percent higher than one from Barclays, the British bank.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - British bank Barclays's hopes of taking over Dutch rival ABN AMRO won a boost on Tuesday when a court adviser said ABN could sell its U.S. arm without a shareholder vote.
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Barclays said on Thursday it was in talks with Absa, South Africa&#39;s largest retail bank, about âa possible recommended partial offer for a majority stakeâ.
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British bank Barclays has raised its offer for ABN AMRO to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included some cash, helped by major investment from state authorities in China and Singapore.
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Business & money: Royal Bank of Scotland launches new bid for ABN Amro, in an attempt to wrest it away from rival bidder Barclays.
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Transatlantic stock market operator NYSE Euronext has begun an investigation into the trading in shares in Dutch bank ABN Amro that surrounded an announcement that ABN was a takeover target of British bank Barclays, ABN said Tuesday.
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Barclays Bank  is confident of winning the bid battle for Dutch bank ABN AMRO NV , a senior Barclays executive said on Tuesday.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Barclays will raise its offer for ABN Amro to $93.2 billion, with help from two Asian financial partners, in the face of a rival bid led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank said Monday.
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Fears that a hiring spree at Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays, could drive up cost growth next year sent the bank&#39;s shares sharply lower yesterday.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - ABN AMRO  said on Wednesday it would discuss with Barclays  the implications of a bid proposal this week by the consortium seeking to dislodge Barclays as ABN's preferred merger partner.
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NYSE Euronext has joined Dutch and British financial authorities in examining trading patterns of ABN Amroâs shares and American depositary receipts just before the multibillion-dollar bidding war over ABN became public, the bank said. âWe have received a request from the NYSE regarding transactions ahead of the announcement of our merger talks with Barclays,â a spokesman, Neil Moorhouse, said, reading a statement. He said ABN was cooperating with the investigation, but could not comment on whether there was any reason to suspect insider trading. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands is expected to make a ruling Friday in the fight between Barclays and a consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy ABN Amro for about 71 billion euros ($97.6 billion).
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Singapore&#39;s state-linked investment firm Temasek Holdings said Monday it is investing 975 million pounds in Barclays, fighting to take over Dutch lender ABN Amro.
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The bidding war for Dutch banking group ABN Amro, which has pitted Britain&#39;s Royal Bank of Scotland against rival Barclays, looms large over the London stock market next week.