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Barclays Bank said it increased its provisions for bad debts, reflecting concern among banks about loans to troubled companies, including the Enron Corporation in the United States and the phone equipment maker Marconi in Britain.

HVB also reported its results and said it lost 360 million euros ($352 million) in the third quarter, down from a profit of 68 million euros a year earlier, as it raised its provisions for bad loans by 86percentto to 2.48 billion euros.

Kookmin Credit Card, a subsidiary of Kookmin Bank, Korea's largest commercial bank, reported that net income in the third quarter was $237 million, down 15.5percentt from the third quarter of last year, as it raised its provisions for bad debts to comply with a new government regulation.

Last month Co-operative Bank revealed it had increased its provisions for customer redress, in part to cover "an identified breach of the Consumer Credit Act".

HSBC's warning that it was increasing its provisions for bad loans in the U.S. by 20.0% last February was one of the first signs of the global subprime crisis.

The treaty is likely to be approved in most European Union countries, but the Irish Constitution requires a referendum to ratify it and many groups oppose its provisions for a Europe-wide military force, saying it would compromise Ireland's traditional neutrality.

Like other global banks, HSBC is suffering from its exposure to Argentina, and it increased its provision for bad debt 62percentto to $715 million.

Rubio helped draft the so-called gang of eight immigration reform that overwhelmingly passed the Senate in 2013, and has since backed away from it, particularly its provision for a path to citizenship.

Wachovia slid $1.42, to $40.53, after saying that it might double its provision for loan losses in the final quarter and that it could not predict when credit markets would return to normal.

Wachovia also warned that it would increase its provision for future loan losses by $200 million.

Bank of America said its first-quarter profit had fallen by 77% compared with a year ago, and that it would increase its provision for credit losses by $5 billion.