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| | CNN.com - UBS profit drops 26 percent - Aug. 14, 2001 |
 | | Quarterly pretax profit at UBS Warburg, the investment banking unit, plunged to 468 million francs from 1.33 billion. |
 | | UBS Warburg, which advises companies on mergers, acquisitions and stock market flotations, said revenue rose 17 percent to 5.7 billion francs, even as global stock markets declined. |
 | | UBS, formed from the merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corp. in 1998, said second-quarter pretax profit at its private banking and corporate clients unit, UBS Switzerland, slipped slightly to 1.25 billion francs from 1.29 billion a year ago. |
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