UBS urged to drop Chinese listing
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Human rights activists and Nobel Prize winners appeal to Swiss bank UBS to end its role in PetroChina's listing in Shanghai.
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UBS , struck with billions of dollars of writedowns on subprime exposures, is trying to persuade investment bankers to stay with the company by allowing them to sell some of their share-based bonuses after just one year, the Financial Times reported.
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Swiss bank UBS could face billions of  dollars more in subprime-related write-downs in 2008, which  could tip it into a second year of losses, analysts warned  investors, sending its shares tumbling again.
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Swiss banking giant UBS on Wednesday posted its first-ever full-year loss after losing billions in the US mortgage crisis and turning to Asian investors for a bail-out, sparking shareholder discontent.
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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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China has turned the tables on the United States, urging Washington to stop the slide of the dollar and restore equilibrium to global currency markets.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday after a warning about U.S. subprime mortgage lending from Britain's HSBC  sparked a sell-off in financial stocks and investors worried that fallout from the housing slowdown may be far from over.
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Shareholder advocacy group Ethos urged more clarity from UBS over its subprime losses, increasing pressure on the bank over heavy writedowns which have hammered its share price.
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Business & money: Second consecutive monthly drop signals market is cooling off, Nationwide building society says
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Business & money: Bank admits it was warned on more than one occasion amid fierce criticism from shareholders
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WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund yesterday called on China to drop the yuan currency&#39;s tight peg to the dollar to help keep domestic inflation under control and bring more balance to the global economy.
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A senior Chinese official has urged the United States to take action to stop the slide of the dollar and restore equilibrium to global currency markets, China Radio International reported Saturday.
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UBS , the biggest European  casualty of the U.S. subprime crisis, said it was shrinking its  investment banking business, cutting staff and drastically  scaling down its exposure to risky investments.
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Staff at National Irish and Northern Banks must be protected if the institutions are sold, a leading finance union warned today. Larry Broderick, general secretary of the Irish Bank Officials Association (IBOA
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - U.S. hedge fund Atticus Capital is urging Barclays  to drop its 65 billion-euro ($87 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO  after buying a significant stake in the British bank.
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Treasury prices sank on Friday as word the Chinese authorities might be shedding some of their US debt holdings sparked fears of broader selling from Asian central banks.
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The discount broker is in talks with UBS to sell its capital markets division.