Today's Best Market Rumors (4/13/2011) BP Trouble, China Bank Assets

Investing

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: April 13, 2011 7:51 am

Updated throughout the day.

Deutsche Bank will restructure in the US to avoid certain federal regulations (WSJ)

Schneider Electric made a $30 billion offer for Tyco (Reuters)

BP may sell its stake in BP-TNK to help it get rights to a deal with Russian government controlled OAO Rosneft. (WSJ)

China’s banks will need to raise $131 billion in equity before 2016 (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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