Funds News
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Barclays Plc, the U.K.’s second- largest bank by assets, will sell its entire $6.1 billion stake in BlackRock Inc. before the latest round of Basel rules stops it from counting the holding as capital.
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The euro has weathered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and falling interest rates. Now, investors are betting like never before that a Greek exit would be too much to keep the 17-nation currency above its long-term average.
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s largest e-commerce provider, agreed to repurchase about a 20 percent stake in itself from U.S. Web portal Yahoo! Inc. for about $7.1 billion ahead of a potential initial public offering.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s holdings of home-loan bonds from outside the U.S. soared 35-fold in the past three years. Now, with its chief investment office facing scrutiny after a $2 billion trading loss, investors are raising concern the European market’s biggest buyer will pull back.
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