Downturn hits UBS earnings
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A SLIDE of 20% in revenues from equity and bond trading knocked UBS&#39;s third-quarter financial earnings back sharply. Only a strong performance by its 56%-owned Swiss industrial holding company Motor-Columbus
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Barclays, the nation'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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French bank BNP Paribas warns "deepening crisis" in financial markets has dented profits.
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Bear Stearns Cos. said yesterday its profit plunged 62 percent in the third quarter as turbulence in the debt market and wrong-way bets on mortgages crunched the investment bank's credit portfolio and bond business.
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Problems in the banking sector hit I.B.M.âs earnings as financial services companies pulled back from buying mainframe computers and large software packages.
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Business & money: Index of leading UK shares falls to lowest level since credit crunch began last August
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The company has signalled profits of between Â£285 million and Â£295 million, down on Â£311 million a year ago, following a poor run of sales.
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Switzerland's largest banking group, UBS, has said that the slowdown in the US economy will cast a shadow over global economic prospects in 2007, making financial markets more volatile.
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Bear Stearns Cos., the fifth-biggest U.S. investment bank, said Thursday fiscal second-quarter profit sank as a downturn in the U.S. mortgage market slammed the company's business of issuing and dealing bonds backed by pools of home loans.
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National Australia Bank, despite reporting a healthy operating profit for its wealth management business, has ended an otherwise tough year on a bad note after today reporting a significant fall in cash earnings for 2004.
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Two large Wall Street firms - Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns - reported a fall in quarterly profits yesterday in sharp contrast to rival players who presented an upbeat performance the day before.
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The bank said its fourth-quarter earnings fell sharply,  to $268 million from $5.26 billion a year earlier, hurt by mounting credit losses and weak investment banking results.
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Analysts were last night downgrading forecasts for ANZ after a disappointing outlook took the shine off the bank&#39;s record $2.82 billion annual profit.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Cos. said fiscal third-quarter earnings fell, their first declines in more than a year. The results sparked concern that Wall Street profits are slowing, and shares of many securities firms dropped.
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Bear Stearns profits fall 61% as a result of the credit crisis and exposure to sub-prime debt.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc   said on Thursday that quarterly earnings fell, hurt by  declining fixed-income revenues.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns posted drops in quarterly profit yesterday, surprising some investors one day after two other big investment banks reported a rise in earnings.