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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Troubled U.K. mortgage lender HBOS is in advanced merger talks with Lloyds TSB, according to a report on the BBC's Web site Wednesday.
Shares in HBOS (UK:HBOS: news, chart, profile) have plummeted over the last few days amid worries the bank will struggle to continue financing its operations as financial markets have been plunged into turmoil.
HBOS' stock was down more than 50% at one point in Wednesday's session, prompting the Financial Services Authority to issue a statement saying it was satisfied with the bank's capital position and that it was continuing to fund its business.
But after the report of a deal, the stock recovered to trade up 11.4% at 203 pence a share.
The BBC reported a deal would value HBOS at closer to the 300 pence-a-share level it was trading at last week before the collapse of Lehman Brothers (LEH ehman Brothers Holdings Inc
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Investors have been worries that HBOS, which funds much of its mortgage lending through wholesale markets, rather than customer deposits, would be hit by a liquidity crisis as capital markets dried up again. See archived story.
Those fears also prompted Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings to cut their credit ratings on the bank Tuesday.
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Simon Kennedy is the City correspondent for MarketWatch in London.
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