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Oct, 22 The price of the oil basket (OPEC) fell to $60 a barrel.

Oct, 17 World oil prices fell below $70 a barrel.

Oct, 6 The capitalization of the world stock exchanges fell by 2.5 trillion dollars.


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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.


Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (MUFG) is a Japanese multinational corporation. It holds an asset of around US$1.2 trillion and is one of the main companies of the Mitsubishi Group. It the seventh-largest company on the FTSE global bank index.

The group was formed on October 1, 2005 with the merger of Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG), formerly Japan's second-largest banking conglomerate, and Osaka-based UFJ Holdings, which was Japan's fourth-largest banking group. The core banking units of the group, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank, were merged on January 1, 2006 to form The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. This integration was originally scheduled to take place on October 1, 2005, the same day that the parent companies were merged. However, pressure from Japan's Financial Services Agency, which wanted to ensure the smooth systems integration of the two banking giants, caused the merger of the banks to be postponed for three months.

Headquarters:Japan, Tokyo
Leadership:Nobuo Kuroyanagi, President
Founded:2001
Website:www.mufg.jp/english
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Business and Financial News

Citigroup will sell Citibank Privatkunden AG for $7.7bn - 06.12.2008
Banking giant Citigroup Inc. says it will sell its German retail banking operation and some of its affiliates to France's Credit Mutuel, in $7.7 billion cash deal.
 
Repartition of the Global Banking System is inevitable - 05.12.2008
The financial crisis continues to storm in the global markets. This time the main victim of crisis is a banking system developed and developing countries. And experts notice, that the global banking system will undergo huge changes by 2012.
 
US government puts up $300bn in Citigroup rescue - 25.11.2008
The US government pulled Citigroup back from the abyss yesterday with a comprehensive bail-out that saw taxpayers guaranteeing $306bn of risky assets and injecting $20bn of capital into the banking group.
 
HSBC cuts 450 jobs in Hong Kong - 18.11.2008
HSBC was laying off 500 people in Asia, 90 percent of them in Hong Kong, in a further indication that the Asian financial community, so far relatively unscathed by mass layoffs seen on Wall Street, is being affected by the global financial crisis.

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