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Conventions are for politicians what St. Patrick’s Day is for Irish people.
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Universal Health Services Inc., the operator of more than 100 U.S. hospitals and other medical facilities, plans to sell high-yield, high-risk notes as Treasury-bond yields have fallen to their lowest this year and investors shun the stock market.
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Lloyds Banking Group Plc sold 546 million pounds ($828 million) of top-rated bonds secured by loans to small and medium-sized U.K. companies in the first deal of its kind since the start of the credit crisis.
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Dexia SA , the largest lender to local governments in Belgium, borrowed more than any other bank from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s discount window during the week in October 2008 when use of the program surged to a record.
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Lloyds Banking Group Plc increased the sale of mortgage-backed securities by 70 percent on investor demand for a portion of the transaction denominated in dollars.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya.
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European banks are being forced to sell more long-term bonds as regulators seek to prevent another financial crisis. European insurers say their own regulator will stop them from buying such debt.
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John Vickers , chairman of the U.K.’s Independent Commission on Banking , said that it was a “mistake” to waive competition laws in 2008 allowing Lloyds TSB Group Plc to acquire HBOS Plc.
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Lloyds Banking Group Plc wants to sell its shipping loan-book, TradeWinds reported today, citing unidentified people.
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Lloyds Banking Group Plc has tried and failed for almost six months to sell a portfolio of shipping loans worth between $8 billion and $12 billion, Lloyd’s List reported, citing bankers it didn’t identify.
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