Barclays may have lost big in Bear fund: report
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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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SINGAPORE/BEIJING  - Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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Barclays Capital, the investment   banking arm of British lender Barclays Plc. BARC.L, is   counting on Asian revenue growth of at least 25 percent a year,   Chief Executive Bob Diamond said on Sunday, as the bank's   overseas businesses now make up about half of its total   profits.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  is not currently planning to bail out a second hedge fund that has suffered big losses, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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Barclays says a technical problem forced it to borrow Â£1.6bn and denies it is facing a cash crisis.
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British bank Alliance & Leicester   warned that higher funding costs will significantly  hurt its margins next year as it reported a 30 percent drop in  annual profits after a big writedown, hitting its shares.
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On Thursday 13th September, after the market had closed, the Bank of England announced to have provided emergency cash to Northern Rock, the fifth largest mortgage lender in the country. The Bank of England played down the intervention, saying that it is not a "bail-out" but rather a loan meant to ease the bank's difficulties in financing its short-term operations in the face of the recent market turmoil. The bank's assets are reportedly solid and there is no risk for shareholders.  In spite of this reassurance, the stock price of this former market darling tumbled 30% on Friday. People were seen queing outside branches while the website went down as the bank clients rushed to withdraw their money using the online banking facility.  It's the first time in my life I've seen that Great Depression staple, the bank run.
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BARCLAYS said yesterday it was on course for a profits haul of about Â£4.5 billion this year. But the shares were the biggest faller on the Footsie as the market was disappointed with a flat performance from
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Britain&#39;s Barclays  is in  talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10  billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned  purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on  Monday.
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Northern Rock shares fall further after a claim the bank has borrowed more money from the Bank of England.
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Shares in Barclays PLC rose Monday following reports that a U.S. hedge fund had bought a stake in the bank and was opposing Barclays' bid to take over ABN Amro Holding NV.
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Business & money: Biggest share falls since height of credit crunch after US bank's $18bn write-off and Rock uncertainty grows
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British bank Barclays has drawn up contingency plans to restructure its all-share offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro with a significant cash sweetener, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Some aggrieved investors are turning  to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses  at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were  virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky  mortgages.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - British bank Barclays's hopes of taking over Dutch rival ABN AMRO won a boost on Tuesday when a court adviser said ABN could sell its U.S. arm without a shareholder vote.
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Regulators probing the collapse of  fund manager Sentinel said an examination had revealed that  more than $500 million was missing from its accounts, the  Financial Times reported in its online edition on Wednesday.