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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.
US government bonds came under heavy selling pressure overnight after Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, said the central bank could begin scaling back its $85bn-a-month asset purchase programme later this year if the US economy continued to improve.
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, ...
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is set to reopen the controversy over genetically modified crops with a speech extolling the benefits of the technology.
LONDON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:03am EDT. LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has fined a property trader nearly a million pounds for major failings, the largest fine ever for a sole trader in the consumer sector.
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 |
Excludes shares with mkt cap of less than �1,000M. Learn more