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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Barclays, forced this week to deny reports of exposure to troubled debt products, said it helped rescue a $1.6 billion debt fund at a London-based asset management firm.
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Troubled bank Northern Rock could be sold off following its emergency bail-out by the Bank of England, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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Barclays, the UK banking giant, is being sued for around $150m by HSH Nordbank over losses the German regional bank alleges it made by investing in sophisticated bonds.
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Falling stock markets and interest rates have wiped &pound;15bn off the value of UK company pension schemes so far this year, calling into question their investment strategies and reviving concerns about underfunding.
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British bank Barclays Plc  has held merger talks with U.S. bank Wells Fargo  that could create a financial giant worth about &#36;180 billion, Britain's Sunday Express newspaper reported.
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Apartheid protesters forced bank out 18 years ago. Now it is in talks about buying a Â£2bn stake. Barclays is planning a major return to South Africa by buying a Â£2bn stake in the country&#39;s largest retail
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Bear Stearns Cos.  may take  until July 16 to tally losses at two struggling hedge funds  that invested in risky mortgage-related securities, The Wall  Street Journal Online reported on Monday.
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Swiss banking giant UBS said on Thursday it had suffered a net loss of 4.4 billion Swiss francs (4.0 billion dollars, 2.7 billion euros) in 2007 after losing billions in the US mortgage crisis.
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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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Britain&#039;s Barclays  said it saw  &quot;very strong profit momentum&quot; in the first quarter as its UK  retail business improved and its investment bank beat peers,  but weakness in the UK unsecured debt market weighed on  Barclaycard.
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Shares in Barclays  rose more than 3 percent in heavy volume on Thursday as traders cited talk of Spanish or U.S. interest in Britain's third-biggest bank.
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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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Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK banking giant, is being sued over claims it failed to properly manage a portfolio of bonds.
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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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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.
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HARTFORD -- A Connecticut hedge fund that bet heavily on the natural gas market lost almost $6 billion over the past month, partly because it sold other assets at a loss to stay afloat while its gas investments plummeted, the fund told investors in a letter.