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Lehman Brothers is actively searching for a white knight to buy the bank with the help of the US government after investors rejected chairman Dick Fuld's plan to split Lehman in two, sending its shares down as much as 42pc.
Lehman Brothers searches for white knight
Late Thursday the nation's largest savings and loan institution releases 3rd quarter guidance and says it remains sufficiently capitalized as it returns to profitability.
Washington Mutual tries to soothe anxiety
Merrill Lynch & Co Inc's shares fell nearly 17 percent on Thursday as worries over Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's future raised questions on which investment bank may be next to face questions about its survival.
Merrill Lynch shares catch Lehman bug
Asia's economies will grow at a slower-than-expected pace this year and next as demand from the U.S., Europe and Japan weakens and turmoil in global financial markets deepens, according to Merrill Lynch & Co.
Asia Faces `Downside' Growth Risk, Merrill Lynch Says
Britain's stricken mortgage lenders cannot rely on the Bank of England to support them through the credit crisis, Mervyn King has warned. The Governor provided the market with the first details of the structure of its much-anticipated new funding system, but warned that the Bank was powerless to rescue the mortgage market.
Bank of England cannot save mortgage market, warns Mervyn King
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch appears to be pulling out of Russia just days after investigators raided the offices of News Corporation's outdoor advertising arm. Just last month, Mr Murdoch said: "The more I read about investments in Russia, the less I like the feel of it. The more successful we'd be, the more vulnerable we'd be to have it stolen."
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sells Russian ad firm
The mystery of why the six-year-old story appeared in the most popular stories section of the Sun Sentinel site is becoming clearer. The buzz in the blogsphere is that links from sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon to the now infamous story might have done the trick. Security experts warned that a botnet could easily be tuned to drive the necessary traffic.
Blame game over United Airlines stock crash rumbles on