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Nikkei turns negative as yen advances

Japan's Nikkei average slipped 0.6 percent on Tuesday, erasing earlier gains as exporters fell on a stronger yen and charts remained grim, with the benchmark poised for its worst quarter since Lehman Brothers failed in 2008.

Barclays CEO says Lehman deal had to have buffer

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Barclays Plc chief executive said on Tuesday that he would not have recommended the purchase of Lehman Brothers' core U.S. brokerage business if the deal did not show a gain for Barclays, or at least an even exchange.

Lehman assets a dog's breakfast: Barclays president

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Barclays Plc's President Robert Diamond said on Tuesday that Lehman creditors fared better under his bank's purchase of Lehman Brothers core U.S. brokerage business than they would have if the assets had been sold on the open market.
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Barclays bosses to take stand in Lehman dispute

Barclays Plc's top two executives will tell a New York court this week that the British bank did not receive an unfair windfall from a deal for parts of Lehman Brothers in a case that shows the need for banks to draw up living wills.
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Bankrupt Lehman seeks more debt of NY building

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is seeking Bankruptcy Court permission to make another $255 million debt investment in a New York office building, saying doing so would protect its existing investment.
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Ex-Lehman execs seek dismissal of Repo 105 lawsuit

Former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc chief executive Richard Fuld asked a judge on Friday to toss out an investor lawsuit that accused him and other Lehman officials of failing to disclose a controversial Repo 105 accounting technique used by Lehman.
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Lehman plans contemporary art sale at Sotheby's

Bankrupt financial group Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc plans to sell about 450 works by contemporary artists including Robert Rauschenberg at an auction in September, according to court documents.
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G20 to back euro zone on debt

G20 finance ministers and central bankers will endorse efforts to douse the euro zone's debt crisis but are far apart on the contentious issue of a global bank levy, a senior South Korean official said on Friday.
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Lehman sues JPMorgan for billions in damages

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase & Co , accusing the second-largest U.S. bank of illegally siphoning billions of dollars of desperately-needed assets in the days leading up to its record bankruptcy.
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Consumers skeptical of Congress on regulation

Small investors angry with Wall Street about their battered portfolios see little relief coming from the U.S. Congress as it attempts the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.
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European stocks and euro slump on banking fears

European stocks and the euro slumped on Tuesday and German bonds hit a record high as investors worried about the fate of euro zone banks and the impact of austerity measures on economic growth.
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Former Lehman execs launch distressed structured credit fund

Former Lehman Brothers Asia executives, who headed the bank's structured products division and its syndicate business, have launched their maiden hedge fund investing in distressed structured credit assets, said the partners in the fund firm, Oracle Capital.
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Excitement over $1 trillion euro plan fades, euro slips

Excitement over the euro zone's mammoth $1 trillion rescue package gave way on Tuesday to doubts whether its weakest economies can meet their end of the bargain and deliver drastic debt cuts, driving the euro and stocks lower.
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Europe rescue package sparks market relief rally

Global equity markets staged a massive relief rally on Monday after officials agreed to a $1 trillion emergency rescue package to halt a festering sovereign debt crisis in Europe from engulfing the rest of the world.
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Shock and awe package lifts euro markets

A $1 trillion global emergency package to stabilize the euro unleashed a spectacular rally in European stocks and bonds on Monday but analysts said EU leaders had only bought time to tackle deep-seated fiscal problems.
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Wall St futures rise after $1 trillion EU/IMF deal

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a strong start for Wall Street on Monday, with shares set to rebound as confidence was boosted after global policymakers came up with an emergency rescue package worth around $1 trillion aimed at preventing Greece's debt crisis from spreading through the euro zone.
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EU, IMF stitch together $1 trillion emergency fund

Global policymakers cobbled together an emergency rescue package worth about $1 trillion to stabilize world financial markets and resolve the Greek debt crisis that threatened to sink the euro and unravel euro-zone unity.
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EU, IMF agree $1 trillion emergency fund

Global policymakers unleashed an emergency rescue package worth about $1 trillion to stabilize world financial markets and prevent the Greek debt crisis from destroying the euro currency.
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Contagion fears go global

Stocks worldwide plunged as fears about Greece's debt crisis went global, with investors seeing it as an omen of turmoil in other European economies and governments struggling to calm markets.

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