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UBS Posts $12B Quarterly Loss; Chairman Steps Down
 UBS Posts $12B Quarterly Loss; Chairman Steps Down
Earnings Report
Apr 1, 2008 6:08 AM CDT

UBS Posts $12B Quarterly Loss; Chairman Steps Down

Swiss bank adds $19 billion in writedowns; chairman steps down

(Newser) - UBS announced a $12.1 billion first-quarter loss and another $19 billion in writedowns as fallout from the US subprime meltdown continued to haunt the Swiss banking giant, reports Bloomberg. Chairman Marcel Ospel, who oversaw the creation of the bank in 1998 will step down. UBS says it will ask...

Credit Suisse Warning Revives Rogue Trader Fears

'Intentional misconduct' behind billions in writedowns

(Newser) - Investment banks got a brief lift from Wall Street results this week, but surprising reports from Credit Suisse are likely to send their confidence back into the basement, the Financial Times reports. The Swiss firm issued an unexpected first-quarter profits warning yesterday—and said “intentional misconduct” from its own...

Wall Street Faults Rules on Writedowns

Critics say accounting rules exaggerate losses, hinder market

(Newser) - After months of staggering writedowns battering Wall Street, some investors and executives are charging that accounting rules are exaggerating losses and triggering slumps like yesterday’s 315-point plunge in the Dow, reports the Wall Street Journal. Rules requiring companies to value holdings at current market rates, no matter how volatile,...

UBS Posts Record $11.2B Quarterly Loss

Swiss bank also posts its first annual loss on $13.7B subprime writedowns

(Newser) - Swiss banking giant UBS today reported an $11.23-billion fourth-quarter loss—the largest ever by a bank—and its first full-year loss ever, after taking $13.7 billion more in subprime mortgage writedowns, reports the Telegraph. UBS, which still has a $27.59-billion exposure to subprime securities, is likely to...

Feds Eye UBS as Subprime Probe Widens

Criminal prosecutors target Swiss banking giant for mispricing

(Newser) - US criminal prosecutors investigating the subprime mortgage mess want to find out if UBS deliberately misled investors, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Swiss banking giant may have put mortgage bonds on its books at high prices despite knowing their valuations had plummeted. There are multiple probes into the mortgage...

Subprime Woes Cost UBS Record $4B Loss

The Swiss bank adds to its write downs; more bad news could be coming

(Newser) - Hit hard by the subprime mortgage crisis, UBS AG announced it will write down an additional $4 billion in bad investments and post a $4.03 billion loss for 2007, a record for the company and significantly more than the Swiss banking giant predicted in December, reports the Wall Street ...

In Need of Cash, Banks Looking to Sell

It's a buyers market as banks unload 'everything from branches to entire units'

(Newser) - Still in need of cash, as subprime writedowns continue to maul bottom lines, US and European banks are selling off or shuttering non-critical assets. They've already sold stakes to foreign investors and borrowed from central banks; now it's time for the yard sale, as the Wall Street Journal puts it....

Merrill Lynch Seeking $5B Cash From Singapore

Anticipating more writedowns, Merrill becomes the latest Western financial institution to look East for help

(Newser) - Facing a fourth-quarter writedown of an estimated $8 billion in subprime paper, Merrill Lynch is negotiating with Singapore’s state-owned investment fund Temasek Holdings for a $5-billion cash infusion, the Wall Street Journal reports. If the deal goes through, Merrill would join several other Western financial institutions bailed out by...

UBS Writes Down $10B; Sells $11.5B Stake

Subprime exposure will cost bank Q4 profit, result in loss for the year

(Newser) - Investors from Singapore and the Mideast will breathe $11.5 billion in new capital into UBS as the Swiss banking giant announces that it will write down an additional $10 billion in subprime holdings, Bloomberg reports. The bank said the subprime losses, the biggest  by a European bank, will wipe...

Street Foresees Very Good Year
Street Foresees Very Good Year  
Nov 13, 2007 12:44 PM CST

Street Foresees Very Good Year

Amid chaos, $28B in earnings marks the second best in history

(Newser) - Despite $45 billion in subprime writedowns, rolling CEO heads, and an $84 billion drop in market value, Wall Street will somehow post its second-most-profitable year ever, reports Bloomberg. “As the bombs are dropping and the mines are exploding, it's a bit of a surprise,'' said an investment banker....

UBS Reports $712M Q3 Loss, $4.4B in Writedowns

Subprime crisis costs bank $4 billion in writedown

(Newser) - The subprime mortgage mess claimed another casualty today: Zurich-based UBS reported its first quarterly loss in nearly five years, a $712 million hit that drove down share prices as much as 1.9%, reports Bloomberg. UBS reported $4.4 billion in losses and writedowns on mortgage securities. And more writedowns...

China to Bar Foreigners From Owning Brokerages

Western banks will have to settle for 20%

(Newser) - China's stock markets are booming, with 47 million new trading accounts opening this year, but foreign banks eager to cash in on the expansion will be frustrated: Beijing is about to introduce new rules prohibiting foreign investors from acquiring more than 20% of any Chinese brokerage, Bloomberg writes.

Dow Breaks 14,000 for 2nd Time
Dow Breaks 14,000 for 2nd Time
Oct 1, 2007 3:53 PM CDT

Dow Breaks 14,000 for 2nd Time

New clarity takes steam out of doomsday scenario

(Newser) - Citigroup and UBS warned of steep third quarter declines today, and the Dow responded by jumping 191.92 points—reacting to new clarity in an uncertain market, the Wall Street Journal reports. The index hit an intraday record—14,091.53—before closing at 14,087.55, only the second...

Swiss Bank Giant Posts Huge Losses Amid Credit Crisis

Biggest loser so far in subprime mess

(Newser) - Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, has become the biggest casualty of the worldwide turmoil in the financial markets, reports the Wall Street Journal. The bank is expected to announced today that it has written off  $3.4 billion in fixed income assets. UBS is projecting third quarter losses of at least...

Credit Squeeze's One Winner: The Dollar

Worldwide scramble for greenbacks reverses currency's slide

(Newser) - After years of decline, the American dollar has reasserted itself in the face of the worldwide credit crunch. The dollar has rallied against the euro and the pound as banks and investors drop hazardous financial instruments and hold cash, Bloomberg reports, making the implication clear: For all its woes, the...

Risk-Averse Euro Markets Retreat
Risk-Averse
Euro Markets
Retreat
Aug 15, 2007 7:42 AM CDT

Risk-Averse Euro Markets Retreat

Subprime mortgage damage, uncertainty continue to spread

(Newser) - European markets plunged today over worries about the spreading subprime mortgage crisis. Analysts downgraded UBS and Deutsche Bank, which dropped, and all 14 open Western European exchanges lost ground, echoing the Asian markets' earlier retreat. "There's a lot of uncertainty about what's going on and who has lost money...

International Banks Face Trial in Italian Court

Morgan Stanley, others indicted in wake of Parmalat bankruptcy

(Newser) - Four gold-plated investment banks have been ordered to stand trial for alleged market manipulation for their roles in advising Italian dairy giant Parmalat, which declared bankruptcy in 2003. Italian prosecutors say Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Citigroup allowed Parmalat to manipulate its finances, helping it to defraud investors even...

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