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| KOSPI | 1,888.31 | 0.00 (0.00%) |
UPDATE 2-Britain to look at RBS split, start Lloyds sale soon
Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:48pm EDT. By Matt Scuffham and David Milliken. LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Britain is ready to start selling its shares in Lloyds Banking Group and will examine whether to break up Royal Bank of Scotland, Finance Minister George ...
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Top stories
Sir Mervyn King's long goodbye came to a climax in the splendour of Mansion House on Wednesday night. The evening was a subdued affair, accompanied by the now familiar sporting analogies 'a game of two halves' and not a hint of a mea culpa.
Telecoms giant BT unveiled a change at the top yesterday as chief executive Ian Livingston revealed he is to become a government minister.
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.
The end is in sight for US Federal Reserve easing that has dominated financial markets for half a decade after it set out an optimistic economic outlook that would lead to the end of asset purchases in mid-2014.
Sir Brian Souter made a healthy profit from his part in a consortium which bought and sold luxury yacht-maker Sunseeker. Picture: complimentary.
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