Royal Bank sweetens its ABN Amro bid
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC sweetened its $98.1 billion offer for ABN Amro Holding NV by increasing the cash portion, seeking to beat Barclays PLC to the world's biggest banking takeover.
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Barclays called in two state-backed Asian financial powerhouses on Monday to strengthen its offer for ABN Amro amid a European bidding battle for the Dutch bank worth nearly 100 billion dollars.
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European shares opened firmer on Thursday led by ABN AMRO as investors applauded the savings the Dutch broker will make from cutting jobs.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  unveiled a bid for ABN AMRO  on Tueday valued at 38.40 euros per share, worth a total 71.1 billion euros ($95.6 billion).
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Progress made by Britain&#39;s Barclays   in its offer for ABN AMRO demonstrates its ability to  offer the Dutch bank&#39;s shareholders &quot;certainty and  deliverability,&quot; Chief Executive John Varley said on Wednesday.
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after striking a deal with China and Singapore.
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after China and Singapore invest in the UK firm.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) on Monday, helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of  Scotland  said on Friday it had formally launched its  71.1 billion euro ($98.2 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO   as it attempts to beat rival suitor Barclays   to the biggest ever bank takeover.
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Barclays  has drawn up contingency plans for a big cash sweetener to strengthen its all-share offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
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A 98-billion dollar (71 billion euro) bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro from a three-member consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland won the approval Monday of Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos.
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A consortium led by RBS will announce on Tuesday whether it will make a formal offer for ABN Amro.
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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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Barclays PLC , competing to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in the world's biggest banking takeover, may sweeten its $89.3 billion all-stock bid by adding cash.
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched an official rival bid of 71.14 billion euros (95.64 billion dollars) for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover by British bank Barclays.
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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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LONDON/ZURICH  - Barclays  has not ruled out adding cash to the terms its ABN AMRO offer should it need to boost its bid to fight off a rival offer from a consortium of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.