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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.
Thursday 06.30 BST. European stocks look set to join the heavy sell off seen across Asia, which started in the US overnight in response to the Federal Reserve's confirmation that it expects to start easing its asset purchases later this year.
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 minister Owen Paterson will on Thursday urge the UK to lead a European farming revolution using genetically modified crops, which he will say will reduce fertiliser and chemical use and improve efficiency.
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.
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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