Bank of America buys Countrywide
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Bank of America agrees to acquire struggling mortgage firm Countrywide Financial, which has been hit by the credit crisis.
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American Financial Realty Trust on Tuesday agreed to acquire 252 commercial properties from Bank of America NA for a total price of about $570 million excluding unspecified transaction expenses.
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Countrywide Financial Corp, the mortgage lender that agreed this month to be acquired by Bank of America Corp, posted a larger-than-expected $421.9 million quarterly loss on Tuesday, as more homeowners fell behind on payments.
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Stronger financial institutions are purchasing weaker ones. Case in point: Bank of America has announced it will purchase Countrywide Financial.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Bank of America Corp.'s $3.3 billion acquisition of U.S. Trust Corp. is a significant addition to the firm's Boston-based Global Wealth &amp; Investment Management unit, but don't expect the deal to yield new jobs here anytime soon.
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp in a $4 billion transaction that could help avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday  said it has won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its  $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank  ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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LOS ANGELES -- Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, said Tuesday it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter due to rising loss provisions and impairment charges as more borrowers fell behind on mortgage payments. The earnings fell well short of Wall Street estimates.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it expects to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and has weathered the worst of the housing downturn.
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Similar deals are expected to follow  Bank of America Corp's  agreement on Friday to acquire  battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for  a knock-down price of $4 billion in stock.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday said it has won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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Bank of America Corp  said on  Friday it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide  Financial Corp  for $4 billion, a move that could avert  one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Bank of America Corp.  on Monday said it will buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s  U.S. Trust Corp. unit for $3.3 billion to expand in the lucrative business of managing money for the rich.
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BBVA  took a fresh step toward  its long-held ambition to grow in the United States on Friday  when it said it had agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares  Inc  for $9.6 billion.
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Countrywide Financial, the troubled lender that became a symbol of the excesses that led to the subprime mortgage crisis, is negotiating a sale to Bank of America.
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank