Thursday, 8th January 2009

 

Deutsche Bank’s private client unit to miss pretax profit target

Business growth in foreign markets such as Portugal, Poland, India and China has failed to offset stagnation in the bank's German private clients operations

Deutsche Bank's private and corporate clients unit will fall short of its full-year target of a pretax profit of €1.3bn ($2bn) because of a slump in its securities operations, according to a Thomson Financial News report.

"If there is no fundamental change, we will hardly reach more than €1bn," WirtschaftsWoche quoted a member of the bank's supervisory board as saying in a prerelease of an article to be published on Monday. The unit posted pretax profit of €1.1bn in 2007.

The report said business growth in foreign markets such as Portugal, Poland, India and China has failed to offset stagnation in the bank's German private clients operations.

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Mayfair goes Modern

Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

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UK millionaire to auction Tiny Dancer - £12m estimate

A bronze version of impressionist artist Edgar Degas' most famous sculpture is being sold by one of the UK's wealthiest men, expected to reach a high estimate of £12m ($17.6m) next month.

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