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| Agricole to sell assets, restructure Calyon - 15, May 2008 |
PARIS (Reuters) - Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA), France's biggest retail bank, said on Thursday it would sell off assets and restructure its Calyon investment banking arm as it confirmed a 5.9 billion euro ($9.1 billion) rights issue.Agricole said it would cut around 10 percent of costs at Calyon, which has been hit by the global credit crunch.The bank added it would continue to sell non-core assets to bolster its financial position and had identified around 5 billion euros' worth of potential disposals over an 18 month period.Agricole had already unveiled the key elements of its first quarter results and its planned rights issue earlier this week."The rights issue will be launched before the summer, subject to market conditions," Agricole said in a statement.Its first quarter net profit fell 66 percent to 892 million euros, hit by a 1.2 billion euro writedown at Calyon.The bank said on Thursday that Calyon registered a first quarter loss of 795 million euros.It added it would present a new strategy and restructuring plan for Calyon in September.Agricole is the latest in a string of banks to ask shareholders for more cash and post lower first-quarter profit as the global financial sector continues to reel from losses in the U.S. subprime mortgage sector.
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