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Lone Star may sue S.Korea govt on KEB deal: paper

Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Reuters - U.S. private equity house Lone Star is seriously considering suing the South Korean government if it delays approval beyond September of the firm's $6.3 billion sale of shares in a local bank, a newspaper reported on Friday.

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Lehman weighs real estate spinoff: report
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 5:39 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is considering a plan to put some $32 billion of its commercial real estate and mortgage assets in a new company and spin it off, Bloomberg reported on its website on Thursday.

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Lower oil lifts Wall St; Dow jumps 2 percent
Posted on Sep 02, 2008 - 10:20 am - Reuters
Reuters - Stocks extended gains on Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up 2 percent, as a sharp slide in oil prices buoyed hopes of a recovery in consumer and business spending, a key pillar of profit growth.

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Lone Star may face order to sell KEB shares: regulator
Posted on Sep 02, 2008 - 4:19 am - Reuters
Reuters - South Korea's top financial regulator said on Tuesday it may consider fining U.S. investment firm Lone Star after it failed to submit regulatory documents, and that may result in an order to sell shares in Korea Exchange Bank (004940.KS).

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Lehman in talks with KDB to raise $6 billion: report
Posted on Sep 01, 2008 - 2:13 am - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings has intensified talks with Korea Development Bank (KDB) to raise as much as $6 billion in a share sale that could be concluded this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

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Lehman hope, lower oil spur Wall St rally
Posted on Aug 22, 2008 - 12:28 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Stocks advanced on Friday on hopes that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, might attract a major investor, fueling gains in the battered financial sector.

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Lehman in talks to sell mortgage assets: reports
Posted on Aug 01, 2008 - 4:07 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is in talks with prospective buyers, including BlackRock Inc, to sell mortgage assets and other hard-to-value securities, according to reports on Friday.

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Lehman likely to make sizable asset sale: UBS
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 12:17 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is likely to make a sizable asset sale, which may include a sale of its investment management unit Neuberger Berger, in a move to address problems, particularly those related to its asset exposures and potential client erosion, said analysts at UBS.

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Legg's Miller backs Yahoo in proxy war with Icahn
Posted on Jul 18, 2008 - 2:53 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Fund manager Bill Miller, one of Yahoo Inc's top shareholders, dealt a blow on Friday to billionaire investor Carl Icahn's two-month campaign to replace the Internet firm's directors, throwing his support behind Yahoo's current board.

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Legg Mason to back Yahoo board slate
Posted on Jul 18, 2008 - 9:52 am - Reuters
Reuters - Yahoo Inc's second largest institutional shareholder Legg Mason Capital Management said on Friday it will back Yahoo's board, dealing a blow to a billionaire investor Carl Icahn's efforts to get a rival board slate elected.

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Lehman management buyout unlikely: Bernstein analyst
Posted on Jul 16, 2008 - 7:43 am - Reuters
Reuters - A management buyout of Lehman Brothers would be too costly to be feasible, Sanford Bernstein analyst Brad Hintz wrote on Wednesday in a research note.

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London shares lower
Posted on Jul 16, 2008 - 3:42 am - AFP
AFP - The FTSE 100 index was lower on Tuesday, mirroring a general slump across Europe in the wake of more steep losses on Wall Street and in Asia, despite weekend moves by the US government to rescue two mortgage giants.

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Lower oil, financial shares drive stocks up
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 12:40 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq gaining more than 1 percent, helped by a sharp drop in oil prices and a dramatic rebound in financial shares after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the banking system is well-capitalized.

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Lehman CEO mulls ways to take bank private: report
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 6:39 am - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld is considering ways to take the Wall Street investment bank private, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

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Lehman CEO mulls ways to take bank private: NY Post
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 4:38 am - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld is considering ways to take the Wall Street investment bank private, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

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Lehman shares plunge amid market distress
Posted on Jul 11, 2008 - 9:25 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Shares of Lehman Brothers plunged to nine-year lows and stock in other Wall Street firms declined as new signs of distress in financial markets spooked investors.

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Lehman debt protection costs jump as shares dive
Posted on Jul 11, 2008 - 10:23 am - Reuters
Reuters - The cost to insure Lehman Brothers debt against default surged on Friday, as its stock price plunged for the second day.

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Lehman shares drop, Pimco says still trading
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 1:19 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, said Thursday that it continues to trade normally with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , as rumors that it had pulled business away from the investment bank clobbered Lehman's shares and bonds.

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Lehman to pay employees more in stock
Posted on Jul 02, 2008 - 4:34 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is paying more of employees' compensation in stock this year, the company said in a memo sent to employees on Wednesday.

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Lehman to pay employees more stock
Posted on Jul 02, 2008 - 3:33 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is paying more of employees' compensation in stock this year, the company said in a memo sent to employees Wednesday.

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Lehman up after Morgan Stanley's overweight rating
Posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 8:22 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Morgan Stanley recommended investors buy Lehman Brothers shares, setting a price target of $31, after the beleaguered investment banking firm's stock fell nearly 11 percent on Monday, owing to rumors that it would be bought out well below its current price.

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Large U.S. banks' stocks in capitulation mode: Merrill
Posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 9:52 am - Reuters
Reuters - U.S. large-cap regional banks' stocks now appear to be in "capitulation mode" and will likely trade below fair value in the near term as more dividend cuts and capital raises, high credit risk and an uncertain earnings outlook all weigh on their share prices, an analyst at Merrill Lynch said.

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