Merrill May Turn to Singapore Fund for Cash Help
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NEW YORK -- Singapore's state-owned investment fund is considering a $5 billion investment in Merrill Lynch, according to a report Friday, potentially providing the nation's biggest brokerage firm with much-needed cash as it deals with billions of dollars in credit losses.
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President Bush's plan to create private investment accounts to augment Social Security would initially benefit a few large players in the money management industry, such as Boston's State Street Corp. But down the road, the sheer sum of money flowing into these accounts could become a boon for other firms, industry officials and analysts said yesterday.
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U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch &  Co Inc  is seeking about $4 billion in a second capital  raising, and the Kuwait Investment Authority is expected to be  a significant investor in the new deal, the Financial Times  reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Merrill Lynch is expected to report that it will add to its announced write-downs, a person briefed on the plan said.
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Over the next week or so, the value of your stock portfolio could depend on the rate at which banks around the world make short-term loans to one another.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, British media reported on Monday.
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The Stamford offices of Merrill Lynch & Co. usually are filled with financial advisers helping clients worldwide.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , hit by huge subprime mortgage losses, said on Monday it would boost its capital by raising up to $6.2 billion in a private placement with Singapore's Temasek Holdings and Davis Selected Advisers.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  shored up its capital base by as much as $7.5 billion after selling a stake to Singapore's government and an asset manager, and unloading much of a lending business, as it wrestles with huge subprime mortgage losses.
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Hedge funds, faced with falling profits  and fading opportunities, are pondering fresh ways to make  money, with one new strategy involving trading a company's debt  against its equity, analysts said.
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Merrill Lynch confirms that it has sold shares worth $4.4bn (Â£2.2bn) to the Singapore's investment arm.
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Merrill Lynch said it is getting a $6.6 billion cash infusion from three foreign funds: The Korean Investment Corp., Kuwait Investment Authority and Mizuho Corporate Bank.