Mideast banks to report subprime losses: magazine
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Banks in the Middle East will announce  losses from exposure to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis when  they report fourth-quarter earnings, the Middle East Economic  Digest (MEED) reported, citing bankers.
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U.S. banking regulators plan to  issue eagerly awaited guidance on the subprime mortgage market  as early as Thursday afternoon, two sources familiar with the  matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling  sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire  units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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Germany's IKB Industriebank says  losses from its exposure to US sub-prime mortgages will reach almost $1bn.
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Lehman Brothers, one of a handful of Wall Street banks to avoid large losses related to subprime mortgages, reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter.
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are  considering selling off parts of their businesses as they  prepare for tough times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported.
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WASHINGTON - About 2 million subprime borrowers will lose their homes to foreclosure through 2009, costing them $71 billion in housing wealth, a congressional report said.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.   subprime mortgage bonds issued last year are being downgraded  by rating companies at the fastest rate of any issuer,  according to Citigroup Inc. research dated June 22.
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HSBC Holdings Plc's  U.S. subprime unit scheduled a management conference call with its staff on Friday amid concern about layoffs and even a winding down of operations, two employees at the unit said.
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The UK's banks should reveal their exposure to the US sub-prime sector, the financial watchdog says.
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The Swiss bank UBS said Monday it could face additional writedowns in its fourth quarter results due to ongoing market exposure to a credit crunch caused by problems in the US housing sector.
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It is time for the banks to fully disclose their US home-loan losses to prevent fear from making a tough credit crunch worse since the central banks have done about all they can to restore confidence, analysts say.
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The government says it will cover losses by financial institutions providing money to the troubled bank.
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Bavarian savings banks want to see a merger get underway this year of regional bank LBBW with BayernLB, which has been hit by subprime related losses, a press report said Tuesday.
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National City Corp , the  ninth-largest U.S. bank, said on Monday it expects its  provision for loan losses for the fourth quarter to be about  $700 million.
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World investment banks to losses of about $30bn from bad debts linked to the global credit crunch, a report says.
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Fortis looks set to be under pressure on Monday after a media report that the Belgian-Dutch bank would write down up to 2 billion euros ($2.9 billion) off its subprime portfolio and after its shares fell on talk of profit warnings.