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Exclusive: Stifel in lead to buy Barclays' U.S. wealth unit – sources

Stifel is now negotiating key aspects with Barclays, although a deal is not certain and Barclays could go back to other bidders that have made offers, the people said this week. The sources requested anonymity because the matter is not public, and a spokeswoman for Stifel and a spokesman for Barclays declined to comment. Barclays has been reaching out to potential acquirers for the business for several weeks because it

GM recalls heavy duty trucks with Takata air bags

General Motors Co (GM.N) is recalling about 375,000 heavy duty pickup trucks equipped with passenger-side air bag inflators made by Takata Corp (7312.T), the U.S. automaker said. Subaru will expand its recall of 2004 and 2005 model Impreza compact cars with Takata air bags to about 80,000 from 20,000, the unit of Japan-based Fuji Heavy Industries also said on Friday. Both companies said they have received no reports of inadvertent

Bank of America to improve compliance practices, pay $30 million fine to OCC

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) asked the No. 2 U.S. bank by assets to pay a penalty of $30 million due to non-home loan compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and unsafe non-home debt collection litigation practices. The OCC, which regulates and supervises all national banks, also ordered “remediation” to about 73,000 affected customer accounts. “The enforcement action is intended to correct deficiencies in

U.S. economy contracts in first quarter; dollar hurts corporate profits

The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as it buckled under the weight of unusually heavy snowfalls, a resurgent dollar and disruptions at West Coast ports, but activity already has rebounded modestly. The government on Friday slashed its gross domestic product estimate to show GDP shrinking at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 0.2 percent growth pace it estimated last month. There was also a modest downward