Ford Motor Co, starting to ship its new aluminum-bodied F-150 pickup, fell as much as 4.4% after Deutsche Bank AG downgraded the automaker on concern that the truck won’t command premium prices amid low fuel costs.

Bank of Ireland is to repay €1.8bn of taxpayers' money to the state, it announced this morning.

European Union antitrust regulators are examining the possible manipulation of currency rates, following a Swiss probe into whether banks colluded to manipulate the $5.3 trillion (€3.9tn)-a-day foreign exchange market.

Italy’s cost of borrowing surged yesterday as investors dumped the country’s bonds in the wake of the general election.

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, expects the eurozone to remain intact and its slow pace of recovery to create opportunities for outside investors, its co-chief executive said yesterday.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Britain’s biggest taxpayer-owned lender, is being investigated by the Federal Reserve and Justice Department for potentially violating sanctions against Iran.

China’s economy may have expanded about 8.4% in the first quarter, the least since the first half of 2009, according to an estimate given by an official 10 days before the data is due.

Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s largest bank, said fourth-quarter profit fell 76%, more than analysts estimated, as Europe’s debt crisis curbed trading and the company wrote down holdings.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co failed to beat analysts’ fourth-quarter profit estimates as the company invested in new products and sales fell for Plavix and Avapro, top-selling pills that will face generic competition this year.

EUROPEAN banks are struggling to find buyers for at least €24 billion of businesses earmarked for sale as the sovereign debt crisis drags on, raising the likelihood they’ll have to settle for fire-sale prices.

GERMAN banks are preparing for losses of as much as 60% on their Greek government debt holdings as European officials push for more private-investor involvement in a rescue of the debt-stricken country.

OIL rose to the highest level in more than a week in New York, climbing with equities on optimism that the economy willexpand and a report that US consumer spending gained in July.

Madrid: Spanish banks that together need as much as €15.2 billion to meet minimum capital levels now must persuade investors that their battered balance sheets offer the potential return to match the risk.

JOB vacancies at London’s financial services companies rose 7% last month as firms sought to replace workers lost during the credit crisis.

BANK of Ireland, the country’s biggest lender by market value, has raised €1.73 billion in a share sale, boosting capital after losses surged.

Irish Life & Permanent has confirmed today that it has raised a further €1.25bn in funding through the issue of a new public fixed-rate bond.

London: The cost of insuring against US and British debt defaults may rise in the same way as it has for so-called European peripheral nations including Greece and Portugal, Deutsche Bank AG said.

Government regulators from the US and Europe laid out their financial reform plans today before a sceptical banking industry, asking financiers for input but adamant that change was coming with or without their support.

ALLIED Irish Bank’s major holdings in a US and Polish bank are worth a staggering €1.3 billion more than the current €485 million value of AIB on the Irish Stock Exchange.

German stocks fell as Deutsche Bank AG, the country largest bank, and Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s biggest postal service, released earnings that disappointed investors.

FRENCH stocks including Suez SA gained. Deutsche Bank AG upgraded the shares of Europe’s fourth-largest utility, while steelmaker Arcelor SA dropped.

Deutsche Bank AG, Europe’s third-biggest bank, may save at least €500 million from a revamp of its investment banking and asset management units, Merrill Lynch & Co and JP Morgan Chase & Co analysts said.

Parmalat Finanziaria SpA Chairman Enrico Bondi has proposed honouring 1% of the €1.8bn in debt claims from the Italian food company’s US lenders, including Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp.

Merrill Lynch & Co ousted Deutsche Bank AG last quarter as the most accurate forecaster of foreign exchange rates. The New York-based firm’s strategy team predicts the dollar’s two-month rally won’t last.

Deutsche Bank AG has said it is to seek approval from shareholders at its June 2 annual general meeting to buy-back up to 10% of its share capital, according to an official announcement in today's Boersen-Zeitung.

John Bond, chairman of HSBC Holdings has declined to comment on reports in the British press on Sunday that the bank is in merger talks with Deutsche Bank AG.

EUROPE’S longest stock-market rally since the bull market peak in 2000 has sputtered during the past month, and an unexpected rise in US employment may not be enough to revive the advance.

HOUSE prices in England and Wales increased at the slowest pace in more than a year in the second quarter as sales declined, figures released yesterday show.

Deutsche Bank AG has transferred its 8.46% holding in HeidelbergCement AG to its DB Value GmbH unit, based at Norderfriederischskoog for tax reasons, HeidelbergCement sources said.

BANK OF IRELAND risks pushing its share price lower when it publishes details of its spurned bid to take over Britain's sixth biggest bank, Abbey National, Goodbody Stockbrokers warned yesterday.

Nine investment banks financed lucrative schemes that helped Enron, the failed US energy giant, appear to be a profit powerhouse up to its collapse, said lawyers who plan to add the banks to a shareholder lawsuit today.

Navan Mining PLC said it is in discussions with Deutsche Bank AG, as the company's principal bankers, to assist the company in securing bridging loan.