HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest bank, may soon be the first foreign company to list in Shanghai.

汇丰控股有限公司，欧洲最大的银行，即将成为第一家在上海上市的外国公司。

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HSBC Holdings Plc and BNP Paribas SA led bank shares higher after the U.S. payrolls data.

美国公布非农人口就业数据后，汇丰银行和法国巴黎银行领涨银行个股。

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HSBC Holdings PLC plans to put up for sale office buildings in New York and Paris as well as its London headquarters, a move that could raise billions of dollars for the U.K. bank.

汇丰控股有限公司(HSBC Holdings PLC)计划出售伦敦的总部大楼以及纽约和巴黎的办公楼，此举有望为这家英国银行筹得数十亿美元的资金。

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European banks including UBS AG, Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG have announced more than 70, 000 job cuts since midyear, compared with 42, 000 by U.S. peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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The profit at the Chinese unit of HSBC Holdings PLC, the largest foreign bank in China with more than 130 outlets, rose to 3.42 billion yuan in 2011, almost four times that of the previous year, after rising 28% in 2010.

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While businesses and individuals in the U.S. can already trade yuan through Western banks such as HSBC Holdings PLC, the move by a Chinese-owned bank marks a stamp of approval by China on the expansion in yuan trading.

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