France, Belgium and Luxembourg are to bail out the troubled bank Dexia, following fears it could go bankrupt.
The Belgian government will buy the bank's division in Belgium for 4bn euros ($5.4bn; £3.4bn).
And Luxembourg's finance minister said a Qatari investment group was ready to buy the bank's Luxembourg unit.
Trading in Dexia's shares, which had been suspended, resumed on Monday afternoon. The price immediately fell 36% before recovering slightly.
The bailout plan for Dexia came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed Europe's crisis-hit banks needed to be recapitalised. Read More at BBC
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