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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Lloyds, GlaxoSmithKline, Swine flu

Date: Tuesday 28 Apr 2009

Britain’s “too-big-to-fail” banking groups could be forced to hoard billions of pounds of extra capital as an insurance against future financial crises, after Alistair Darling decided against splitting them up.

The chancellor is expected to announce next month that banks such as HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds...

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Name Value Chg
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Name Value Chg
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Name Value Chg
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FTSEurofirst 300 1,051.12 -7.85
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