Barclays sues Bear Stearns over hedge funds
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Barclays Bank Plc  on  Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc  of using two  hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload  troubled assets.
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A Spanish judicial body said Tuesday it will investigate how Barclays bank received a court order to pay 1.1 quadrillion euros ($1.4 quadrillion US) in compensation to the former owner of a Spanish bank it ...
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, and said a second fund that took greater risk is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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A San Diego insurance brokerage has been sued by New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer for allegedly soliciting payoffs in exchange for steering business to preferred insurance companies.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday sued Putnam Investments parent Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. , alleging the nation's largest insurance brokerage received payoffs from insurers for steering clients to them instead of finding the best prices for its customers.
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Barclays PLC  may have tallied big losses in a Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge fund that invested in risky mortgages, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Bear Stearns Co Inc  posted a much bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, capping a fiscal year when the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank took a beating on bad bets on risky subprime mortgages.
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Shares in Barclays Plc  raced to a new high as speculation mounted that Bank of America Corp.  could bid for the UK bank, even though a sale of shares by Barclays' outgoing chairman signaled no approach had been made.
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American Express is suing Visa and MasterCard plus eight US banks, claiming anti-competitive tactics kept it out of the market. The litigation is the latest setback for Visa and MasterCard, which last month
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A suit brought by the New York Attorney General against UBS, accusing its U.S. brokerage of defrauding customers, could harm the wealth management industry even if the Swiss bank mounts a successful defense, analysts said.
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Shares in British bank Barclays PLC pushed higher Monday on media reports that it has held merger talks with U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo &amp; Co.
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BRITAIN&#39;S largest financial institutions are being urged to take lead roles in lawsuits seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from the scandal-struck US insurance industry.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Barclays, Britain's third biggest bank, said Tuesday that net profits sank by about 3.0 percent last year owing to the US subprime housing crisis and related global squeeze on credit.
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The German lender declined to give more details. Earlier, the Sunday Telegraph reported that HSH Nordbank is suing Barclays for about $150 million over a loss on bonds it bought in 2000.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , trying to  prevent the collapse of two of its hedge funds, may take over  about $3.2 billion of the funds&#39; loans to prevent creditors  from seizing more assets, Bloomberg reported on its Web site on  Friday.
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Barclays PLC  may have tallied  big losses in a Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge fund that  invested in risky mortgages, The Wall Street Journal reported  on Saturday.