** Banks take the most points off the FTSE 100, ledby Standard Chartered and Barclays.
** FTSE dragged into negative territory after StanChart's warning that H1 profits will fall about 20%.
** Barclays slides some 5% on NY Attorney General securitiesfraud lawsuit.
** Barclays down nearly 20% YTD, underperforming a flat FTSEand losing nearly £9 bln of market cap.
** According to Thomson Reuters StarMine, analysts have onaverage cut their Barclays dividend forecasts on Barclays byaround 8% over the last 30 days.
** Heavy demand to sell Barclays shares, with its dailyvolume already 1.15 times the 3-mth daily average. (RM: sudip.kargupta.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)