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The Motley Fool September 21, 2011 Alex Dumortier	European Debt Crisis: Are You In or Out? Forget about core and peripheral countries. We have not seen the worst of this crisis. Things will get worse for the banks in the eye of the storm.
Registered Rep. September 22, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	McCann Memo Aims to Reassure Jittery UBS Brokers In a strongly-worded memo this week to employees at UBS Wealth Management Americas, CEO Bob McCann assured them that matters are under control.
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CFO June 1, 2008 Karen M. Kroll	A Perceptive Postmortem UBS comes clean on the causes of its whopping write-downs.
Registered Rep. April 14, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Retail Brokerage Nearing a Turnaround? Client asset withdrawals have slowed at the embattled U.S. wealth management business of UBS where, in a positive sign to investors, it reported much stronger first quarter pre-tax profit than previously expected.
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Registered Rep. February 10, 2009	UBS Earning Get Kicked In The ARS! U.S. Wealth Mgt Unit Profit Wiped Out By ARS UBS announced a fourth quarter loss of U.S. $7.5 billion, capping a horrendous year for the Swiss firm.
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