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Britain Weighs Breakup of RBS
LONDON�The British government is considering breaking up Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, the country's Treasury chief said Wednesday, a potentially radical move that underscores policy makers' mounting frustration with their inability to arrest a ...
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Top stories
A top businessman who threw his weight behind the Government's savage cuts is to be made an unelected minister and handed a peerage.
BEIJING | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:56am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - Wanda Group, China's largest commercial real estate developer, aims to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, ...
In a news conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks about current monetary policy and situations that would lead to a change in those policies.
It wants the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), which regulates the tunnel on behalf of the United Kingdom and France, to instruct the company to bring the charges down.
Britain should embrace the benefits of genetically modified crops and push other EU countries to drop their opposition to GM food, the environment secretary will say in a speech on Thursday.
Trends
| Gainers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MCRO | Micro Focus International plc | 9.70% | 1,060.27M |
| INF | Informa PLC | 3.33% | 2,974.96M |
| HOME | Home Retail Group Plc | 2.93% | 1,087.58M |
| TSCO | Tesco PLC | 2.69% | 27,863.03M |
| ERM | Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC | 2.67% | 1,286.13M |
| Losers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| CPBB | Co-operative Bank plc | -5.66% | 4,100.00M |
| AGK | Aggreko plc | -5.08% | 4,466.61M |
| UU | United Utilities Group PLC | -4.42% | 4,734.52M |
| TCY | TeleCity Group Plc | -3.62% | 1,949.11M |
| SVT | Severn Trent Plc | -3.60% | 4,064.18M |
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