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After a subdued start, the FTSE 100 finished with impressive gains on Tuesday as investors put aside worries ahead of the key 'risk event' of the week, the monetary policy meeting at the Federal Reserve. Banking stocks in London were performing well today after the China Securities Journal suggeste
Read moreBanking stocks were in demand on Tuesday on the back of reports that China could move to cut interest rates in an effort to combat a slowdown. An article in the China Securities Journal suggested that the People's Bank of China could reduce interest rates to reduce the debt burden on companies. M
Read moreWhitbread was performing well on Tuesday after the company reported a decent first quarter with group sales up 13.8 per cent, boosted by growth at Premier Inn and another strong performance from Costa which saw sales jump by an impressive 24.8 per cent. Whitbread said that while sales in its resta
Read moreLloyds Bank Group has slammed claims it has been under political pressure to sell hundreds of branches to the Co-operative Group. The state-backed lender, which is required to sell its 632 branches as a condition of its 2008 taxpayer bailout, denied suggestions of ministerial interference in the co
Read moreChancellor George Osborne has confirmed reports his Mansion Speech on Wednesday will reveal plans for reprivatising Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). In an interview with BBC Radio on Tuesday, he said the government is eager to return the lenders to private ownership and vowed
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* NBNK says thinks was political interference in process * Lloyds says Co-op picked for financial, deal reasons * Lloyds became aware of Co-op problems in December * Moody's downgrades Co-op Bank ratings By Matt Scuffham and Steve Slater LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - B
Read moreHSBC and Standard Chartered should benefit as U.S. Federal
Reserve eases its programme of asset purchases, pushing up dollar rates and
reducing the pressure on banks' Asian margins, analysts at Citi write. They upgrade HSBC to 'buy' from 'neutral', helping its shares gain 2.6
percent.
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group's Chairman Win Bischoff said there had been no political pressure on the bank to sell hundreds of branches to the Co-operative Group. Bischoff was speaking to the Treasury Select Committee, which is examining the deal which was supposed to c
Read moreChancellor George Osborne will hint at the sale of state-backed Lloyds Banking Group by the 2015 general election in his annual speech on Wednesday, aides told the Financial Times. He will signal that he wants to move the lender back into private ownership but will refuse to specify an exact date o
Read moreThe Independent says that the Co-op Bank will this week announce plans to fill a 1.5bn-pound hole in its finances. The rescue, brokered with the Bank of England's Prudential Regulatory Authority, will see 5,000 investors take a haircut on money they lent to the bank. Conservative MP David Davis has
Read moreBy William James and Matt Scuffham LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Andrew Tyrie is a Conservative lawmaker, but this week fellow party member and finance minister George Osborne will be taking a deep breath as Tyrie's cross-party committee on British banking reform unveils its final report.
Read moreLONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Most young Britons say rising barriers to home ownership are dividing the country socially and economically, and one in five has abandoned the dream of ever owning a property, a survey by mortgage provider Halifax said. Over 70 percent of 8,051 survey respondents
Read moreForeign-owned bank branches - as opposed to subsidiaries - in Britain made the country's financial crisis worse, as they moved to shrink their loan books by almost half at the height of the credit crunch, according to Bank of England research, The FT Weekend reports. The other factors which explain
Read moreBy William James and Matt Scuffham LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Andrew Tyrie is a Conservative lawmaker, but this week fellow party member and finance minister George Osborne will be taking a deep breath as Tyrie's cross-party committee on British banking reform unveils its final report.
Read morePaul Tucker has resigned as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, leading to suggestions the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) could move in favour of a more activist monetary policy. Tucker, who joined the Bank of England in 1989 as Principal Private Secretary to Governor Leigh-Pemberton,
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