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- Expanding Santander
- Felix Salmon submits: Europe has too many banks. Now that it has a single currency, the fact that each country is dominated by its own national banks is looking increasingly old-fashioned. And so it makes sense that, sooner or later, a genuinely European bank will emerge - one with...
- External links 2008-06-20
- HBOS Wins Support For Rights Issue
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's biggest mortgage lender HBOS HBOS has won shareholder support for its 4 billion pound rights issue. Shareholders accounting for over 98 percent of HBOS shares backed each of three separate proposals relating to the rights issue, designed to shore up...
- News items 2008-06-26
- Opes Prime Action Adjourned Until Aug 21
- A class action by Opes Prime investors against the failed stockbroker, ANZ Banking Group Ltd and investment bank Merrill Lynch in the Federal Court has been adjourned until August 21 for a further directions hearing.Law firm Slater & Gordon Ltd has launched a claim for more than $100 million...
- News items 2008-06-25
- France Telecom Withdraws TeliaSonera Offer
- By Astrid Wendlandt and Adam Cox PARIS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France Telecom withdrew a $40 billion plan to acquire TeliaSonera on Monday, pleasing its own shareholders but casting doubt over the Nordic operator's future. This tie-up always faced long odds: the French suitor was...
- News items 2008-06-30
- France Telecom Withdraws TeliaSonera Offer
- By Astrid Wendlandt and Adam Cox PARIS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters UK) - France Telecom withdrew a $40 billion (20 billion pound) plan to acquire TeliaSonera on Monday, pleasing its own shareholders but casting doubt over the Nordic operator's future. This tie-up always faced long odds: the French suitor...
- News items 2008-06-30
- Singaporean Player Sues Opes Prime
- A Singaporean client of Opes Prime has taken legal action against the failed stockbroker and against investment bank Merrill Lynch over share losses that scuttled a takeover bid.Asia Pacific Links Limited APLL, the investment vehicle of Anthony Soh, launched an action last Friday in the Federal Court to sue...
- News items 2008-06-15
- Libor 3-month Dollar Biggest Jump Since August 9
- By Jamie McGeever LONDON (Reuters UK) - The interbank cost of borrowing three month dollar funds posted its biggest rise on Tuesday since August 9 last year, the day the global financial crisis erupted, as banks grappled with the prospect of rising interest rates. Federal...
- News items 2008-06-10
- Pub Food Helps Greene King Profit Beat Forecasts
- By Matthew Scuffham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Pubs group Greene King GNK beat full-year profits expectations on Thursday to send its shares higher as rising food sales offset the impact of a smoking ban. Greene King, which has around 2,500 pubs in England and Scotland, said...
- News items 2008-07-03
- William Hill Aims to Increase Online Contribution
- By Matthew Scuffham LONDON (Reuters UK) - William Hill WMH, Britain's second biggest bookmaker, expects to raise the proportion of its gross win coming from Internet gambling by up to 50 percent when it launches a new online sports betting platform in November. The company derives...
- News items 2008-06-10
- ECB Raises Rates to 4.25 Percent
- By Krista Hughes FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in more than a year on Thursday, in a widely expected quarter percentage-point move which took benchmark rates to 4.25 percent, the highest level ...
- News items 2008-07-03
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