Stricken German bank sold, Trichet awaited
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Wary financial markets awaited a public appearance by European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet on Monday after a German bank holed by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was sold.
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Berlin's city government will sell a 81% stake in the public sector banking group LBB to meet an EU deadline.
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KarstadtQuelle, the troubled German department store operator, said its creditor banks had agreed to meet its liquidity needs until December 31, but had not yet agreed to its request for a three-year-loan of 1.75 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars).
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State-owned development bank KfW is selling up to 4 billion euros ($4.9 billion) worth of shares in Deutsche Telekom, the latest step in the privatization of the former German phone monopoly.
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The three largest shareholders in MAN sold their 25 percent stake in the German machinery and vehicle maker on Wednesday for EUR1 billion, marking a further step in the disentangling of Germany Inc., the ...
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A preferred buyer for the National Irish and Northern banks is expected to be announced by their parent this morning. National Australia Bank is due to make an announcement to the stock exchanges in Melbourne and London.
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ThyssenKrupp, the German engineering group buoyed by soaring steel prices, sold off a core element of its philanthropic past yesterday by disposing of its entire stock of company homes for employees for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.45bn).
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The Swiss National Bank on Friday released terms of its temporary term auction facility:
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority
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A very large and valuable pile of assets now stands to change hands, possibly quite soon.
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IKB , the German bank which nearly went bust after its subprime investments crashed, is searching for up to 2 billion euros to stay afloat, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
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SANTANDER Central Hispano, the Spanish bank that last year bought Britain - s Abbey National, yesterday sold its last shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, its partner of 16 years.
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Citigroup  is interested in all banks in Germany which would be for sale but is not in talks with Commerzbank , its head of Germany, Sue Harnett, said on the sidelines of a news conference on Tuesday.
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Eon, the Germany utility group, off-loaded its last major non-core asset on Wednesday with the sale of its majority stake in Austrian mobile operator ONE  to a consortium led by France Telecom.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - The government of the eastern German state of Saxony on Sunday decided to sell its stricken lender SachsenLB to Stuttgart-based LBBW  for what sources said was 300 million euros in a move that speed further bank consolidation.
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German state banking group KfW is selling up to 4 billion euros (2.8 billion pounds) worth of shares in Deutsche Telekom, continuing the privatisation of the German phone operator.
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German insurers Allianz and Munich Re and German bank Commmerzbank on Wednesday said that they had sold their entire stakes in engineering conglomerate MAN as part of their strategy of reducing their share ...