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Why the Deutsche Bank merger with Commerzbank must be stopped – HANDELSBLATT (English & German)

Summary:
The official story is one of creating a national champion, a German bank large enough to compete with American investment banks. The truth is far less heroic and a lot more sordid than that. Here is why Demokratie in Europa is campaigning against this merger. Both banks are zombies. Commerzbank has gone through eight years of constant cost-cutting but still delivers profits of less than per share at a time when the European Central Bank is bending over backwards to help Europe’s banks profit. Deutsche Bank is not doing much better. Since 2010 its share price has fallen from to , its market value today is lower than it has been since 2008, and its return to equity is… negative. If Deutsche Bank and

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