Saudis bought UBS stake along with Singapore
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Saudi Arabian investors bought a large stake in UBS  along with the Singapore government, the Financial Times reported, amid rising shareholder discontent over the Swiss bank's losses.
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UBS AG is to acquire the branch network   of McDonald Investments, a unit of KeyCorp, for up to $280   million, the Swiss investment bank said on Wednesday.
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U.S.-based fund manager Harris Associates has built a $1 billion stake in troubled Swiss investment bank UBS , the Sunday Times said in an unsourced report.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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United Breweries Limited has decided to enter into a partnership with Scottish &amp; Newcastle, S&amp;N. Under this agreement, S&amp;N will get 17.5% of UBL&#39;s stake through a preferential allotment for Rs 217 crore (Rs 2.17 billion), or Rs 575 per share.
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The Gulf state of Qatar on Thursday bought a 20-percent share of the London Stock Exchange.
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UBS is reportedly facing shareholder opposition to a huge injection of funds from Singapore and the Middle East to help the Swiss banking giant overcome the US subprime mortgage meltdown.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced a $25.4bn (Â£13.1bn) deal yesterday to buy Guidant Corporation, giving the healthcare company a stake in the fast-growing market for devices that regulate heartbeats.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Singapore shares ended slightly higher Friday after reversing an early dip, aided by gains in Singapore Press Holdings after it announced plans to merge some operations with a state-owned broadcaster.
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Barclays said it had struck a deal with China Development Bank and Temasek Holdings of Singapore.
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Standard Chartered has won a bid for a controlling stake in Indonesia&#39;s seventh-largest bank for about $278 million (155 million pounds), the British bank&#39;s third attempt to buy an Indonesian financial institution, a source says.
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Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced Tuesday that it is buying the capital markets division of discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. in a &#36;265 million bid to become one of the top traders on the NASDAQ exchange.
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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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UBS AG said Friday it plans to sell its 20.7 percent stake in private bank Julius Baer Holding to raise capital for its share repurchase program.
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Backpedaling from a recent expansion, Charles Schwab Corp. is selling an institutional investment and research division to Swiss banking giant UBS AG for $265 million, another step in the struggling stock brokerage&#39;s push to regain its Main Street appeal.
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after getting Chinese and Singaporean loans.
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Qatar has bought shares in Credit Suisse , and plans to spend as much as $15 billion on European and U.S. bank stocks during the next 12 months, Bloomberg News reported, citing the Qatari prime minister.