OSAKA -(Dow Jones)- Europeans shouldn't have to shoulder alone the full weight of adjustments in foreign exchange rates, German Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Mirow said Friday.

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. is in talks to form a fund to help UBS AG , Switzerland's largest bank, recover from $38 billion of subprime mortgage-related writedowns, two people with knowledge of the discussions said.

Lehman Brothers finance chief Erin Callan wants to "end the chatter" about the beleagured investment bank's financial health. But the murmuring won't stop till investors get a fuller view of Lehman's exposure to risky assets.

The bank, majority-owned by the Brazilian government, was jolted in 2005 when peers including Banco Bradesco SA , the biggest privately held lender, took advantage of the country's booming economy to boost lending 29 percent, almost double the increase a

'It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good' applies to the credit crunch as much as to most other situations in which investors find themselves. A contraction in borrowing capacity, falling property prices, bailouts of investment banks and the like i