German Companies Consider Backing Deutsche Bank, HB Says
- Capital injection seen in low single-digit billion-euro range
- Government said to welcome private-sector plan, newspaper says
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Some of Germany’s biggest publicly traded companies are prepared to buy shares in Deutsche Bank AG to prop up the lender in the event of a potentially crippling legal fine in the U.S., German newspaper Handelsblatt reported.
The chief executive officers of “several” blue-chip companies listed on DAX, the German index, have discussed the bank’s situation, the newspaper said, without identifying the companies or saying where it got the information.