Greece debt swap talks drag into weekend

* Real loss for investors could reach 65-70 pct – source

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TABLE-Hang Lung Prop July-Dec net profit down 26.4 pct

NOTE – Hang Lung Properties, a subsidiary of Hang Lung Group Ltd, invests in real estate.

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TABLE-Hang Lung Group Jul-Dec net profit down 17 pct

NOTE – Hang Lung Group is an investment holding company with interests in property investment and development, hotels, department stores and restaurants.

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TABLE-Hang Lung Group Jul-Dec net profit down 17 pct

TEXT-Fitch revises MIL Industries’ outlook to negative

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ECB’s Nowotny: up to EU to solve Greek debt crisis

VIENNA, Jan 17 – Solving Greece’s debt crisis is a problem for the Greek and other European governments, and not primarily the job of the European Central Bank, ECB governing board member Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday.

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France could be AAA again in 5 yrs-BNP Paribas CEO

PARIS, Jan 15 – France could regain its top-notch triple-A credit rating in five years with sustainable growth of 2 percent and a sound budgetary policy, the head of France’s biggest listed bank, BNP Paribas, told Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

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Dutch PM Rutte: quick implementation of ESM needed

AMSTERDAM, Jan 15 – Dutch Prime Minister said he has talked with Germany’s leader Angela Merkel about the importance of implementing Europe’s permanent rescue fund ESM as quickly as possible after credit rating agency S&P downgraded several European countries.

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Debt-laden Ireland readies softer bankruptcy law

DUBLIN, Jan 13 – Ireland will publish a bill to ease its strict bankruptcy rules by early April, fulfilling a requirement of its EU/IMF bailout and offering relief to thousands struggling under crippling mortgage debt.

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Enexis eschews bank funding for cheaper bond market

LONDON, Jan 13 – Enexis, a Dutch energy company that manages electrical grids, has set up a EUR3bn EMTN programme in an effort to raise funding to refinance maturing CLOs and pay for new investments, including a smart metering rollout.

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Investors urge quick BTA resolution

LONDON, Jan 11 – BTA Bank’s failure to make a coupon payment on USD2bn of debt is tarnishing the reputation of Kazakhstan’s banking sector, say investors.

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