Archive for October 5th, 2008



The German government, the Bundesbank central bank and market regulators agreed with the banking sector Sunday on a new 50-billion-euro rescue package for stricken bank Hypo Real Estate, the finance ministry said.
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The German government, the Bundesbank central bank and market regulators agreed with the banking sector Sunday on a new 50-billion-euro rescue package for stricken bank Hypo Real Estate, the finance ministry said.
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The German government, the Bundesbank central bank and market regulators agreed with the banking sector Sunday on a new 50-billion-euro rescue package for stricken bank Hypo Real Estate, the finance ministry said.
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US banking giant Citigroup attempted Sunday to freeze out rival Wells Fargo from a takeover battle for troubled lender Wachovia after being blindsided last week in its bid to complete a tie-up.
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German govt to guarantee deposit accounts

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
5Oct 08

The German government said on Sunday it would guarantee private bank deposits as part of its response to the banking crisis, embracing an Irish approach that has angered some European countries.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was scrambling Sunday to salvage a rescue plan for German bank Hypo Real Estate so "an institution's crisis does not become a crisis for the entire system".
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US banking giant Citigroup said it had obtained a court injunction to freeze a proposed merger between rivals Wachovia and Wells Fargo.
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US bank JPMorgan Chase stands accused of precipitating the collapse of American investment bank Lehman Brothers by freezing Lehman assets days before it filed for bankruptcy protection, the Sunday Times reported.
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Germany weighed the fallout Sunday from the failure of the country's biggest financial rescue in history, after Europe's top four economic powers pledged a coordinated approach to the credit crunch.
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The leaders of Europe's four main economic powers vowed to protect fragile banks in their fight against the global credit crisis as the biggest rescue in German financial history collapsed.
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