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Trying to prevent a run on its banks, the United Arab Emirates helped calm financial markets Monday with its pledge to lend money to banks operating in Dubai, an action that came amid concerns about excessive borrowing around the world.
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The American International Group said Wednesday afternoon that it has settled its long-running legal battle with Maurice R. Greenberg, the company's former chief executive, in an attempt to move past years of contentious fighting.
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Dubai will ask creditors of two of its
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LinkedIn, the big professional social network, will probably pursue an initial public offering some time but not in the near future, cofounder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman said on Wednesday.
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The London Stock Exchange posted a 40 percent drop in first-half earnings on Wednesday on lower trading and warned that market conditions remain uncertain.
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Ericcson and Kapsch CarrierCom will buy the GSM business of bankrupt Nortel Networks of Canada for $103 million in cash, the giant Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment said Wednesday.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the biggest U.S. pension fund with $200 billion, has launched an internal investigation into its own oversight of hedge fund deals, The Los Angeles Times reported.
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The government defended the right of the Bank of England to make secret loans to struggling banks after belatedly disclosing that the Bank of England had lent almost $104 billion to two institutions last year.
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TPG has been slapped with a $628 million tax bill by Australian authorities in a dispute over how to tax the U.S. private equity firm's gains from the initial public offering of department store Myer.
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UBS and Ernst & Young may face hundreds of damages claims if investors who lost millions of dollars in mutual funds linked to Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme win a group of Luxembourg test cases.
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Calpers is considering firing BlackRock, its real-estate adviser, after the firm steered the pension plan toward a pair of gigantic Manhattan apartment complexes now considered one of the biggest flops of the boom, The Wall Journal reported.
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Nomura, the Japanese brokerage, has been fined $2.9 million by Britain's Financial Services Authority after one of its Hong Kong traders helped trigger an over-valuation of complex financial instruments.
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Investment flows into hedge funds have turned net positive and the sector is heading toward having assets under management of around $1.75 trillion by year-end, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Federal agents searched the Indiana and Ohio offices of two companies owned by an Indianapolis businessman Tuesday, serving warrants after a newspaper questioned whether the investment firms was capable of repaying some $168 million owed to investors.
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Tesla Motors is close to a deal to build an electric car factory at the site of a former N.A.S.A. manufacturing plant in Downey, Calif., a blue-collar city south of Los Angeles.
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J.C. Flowers is circling Britain's weakened banking industry, prepared to swoop down on forced divestments over the next 12 months, according to the U.S. private equity investor's new European and Asia Pacific boss.
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Half of the losses suffered by banks could still be hidden in their balance sheets, more so in Europe than in the United States, the International Monetary Fund's chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, told Le Figaro.
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Federal securities regulators won an insider trading case when a jury in Boston ruled that a former Fidelity employee illegally profited from trading stocks that the mutual fund giant was buying for itself.
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The European Commission closed antitrust proceedings against Qualcomm as big technology companies dropped their four-year-old complaints against the U.S. mobile chip supplier.
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Gruner + Jahr, the German publisher, said it was selling its Russian operations to Axel Springer after concluding that it would need to make too many expensive acquisitions to gain a leading market position.
