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AmericasJune 1 2000

Accounting for diverse interests

As merger and acquisition activity in the US banking sector slows and foreign heavyweights circle, major players are choosing to diversify their portfolio of interests. Michael Blanden reports.
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Despite a continuing run of excellent results, boosted sometimes by strong performances in international capital markets, US banks have fallen out of favour with investors.

Bank stock prices dropped like a stone last year amid growing concern over the increasingly over-ambitious targets set during mergers and several misjudged acquisitions. Such worries have combined with increasing concern over rising domestic interest rates to make stock market investors think again.

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