Trader 'staked 50bn euros'
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The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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The French rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros is reported to be in police custody.
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Spar, Germany's eighth-biggest food supermarket chain, plans to sell a 50-percent stake in its discount arm Netto to its French parent company ITM Entreprises, Spar's new chairman Stephan Schelo said in a newspaper interview.
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Societe Generale has uncovered a fraud by one of its traders which will have a 4.9-billion-euro ($7.16 billion) negative impact on the group, France's second-largest listed bank said on Thursday.
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New details about the actions of a former SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale trader accused of making billions of dollars of unauthorized bets showed that his losses began in July.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Harry Dobson, the Scottish mining millionaire who owns a 6.5 percent stake in Manchester United (UK:MNU) , told Scotland&#39;s Herald newspaper that he has been approached about selling his stake by brokers who may have been acting on
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Funds run by the currency trader buy a 7% stake in the brokerage.
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Societe Generale detailed Sunday how a young trader evaded all its controls to bet some $73 billion Â more than the French bank's market worth Â saying he hacked computers and used other "fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions of dollars in losses.
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The French government will sell a 9.6% stake in France TÃ©lÃ©com, taking its holding below 50%, announced the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry.
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PARIS â A transcript of conversations between JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the trader whom SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale says cost it nearly 5 billion euros ($7.2 billion), and a broker at one of the bankâs subsidiaries suggests that the second man had an intimate knowledge of Mr. Kervielâs surreptitious trading and that Mr. Kerviel was well aware of the gravity of his actions.
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Eurocastle Investment, a London-listed group managed by US private equity group Fortress Investment, is to pay â¬300m (Â£210m) for a Deutsche Bank property portfolio, the latest deal in the vast property sell-off under way in Germany.
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Deutsche Boerse, operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, believes it has already won over the shareholders of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with its two-billion-euro (2.6-billion-dollar) takeover bid, its chairman said in a newspaper interview.
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Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed by  Societe Generale for heavy losses, had a trading deficit of 2.2  billion euros ($3.2 billion) as early as June last year, an  adviser to his lawyer told Paris Match.
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The trader at the centre of a massive trading scandal reportedly says Societe Generale must have known of his risk taking.
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The London Stock Exchange  forecast a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its full-year dividend at least 50 percent on Tuesday as it reiterated its opposition to a 2.7-billion-pound ($5.3 billion) bid from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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Archipelago Holdings, the owner of ArcaEx, the largest electronic stock market, is expected to buy the Pacific Exchange for about $50 million.