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Bank bail-outs

Source: BBC

London : United Kingdom | 3 months ago

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At the end of a week of information overload from Britain's big banks, what have we learned? You know it is an unusual week when a press office calls to say that a figure you are using is not as bad as it should be. That was just what happened with one of the banks reporting this week, and it...

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Bank bail-outs

News Source: BBC | 3 months ago

At the end of a week of information overload from Britain's big banks, what have we learned? You know it is an unusual week when a press office calls to say that a figure you are using is not as bad as it should be. That was just what happened with...