Lloyds Bank

...advance, with Cairn Energy up 44p at GBP29.14 and Petrofac, the oil services specialist, up 15p at GBP10.22 among the morning leaders. Lloyds Bank led the fallers, down a modest 1.04p to 88.81p. Retailers started the day amid worries...

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Originally published Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:30 AM Lloyds Bank cutting or moving 5,000 more jobs Britain's Lloyds Banking Group PLC said Tuesday that it plans to cut about 4,300 jobs and transfer 680 more in a series of...

In this article: Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, EU, and Britain

...as ABN Amro, which destroyed it, and Bank of Scotland take over Halifax to become HBOS, leading to Lloyds' own near-collapse. Buying Lloyds shares today, even with the Aldi-style discount which it will need to get the latest rights issue...

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Ian Cowie: If you want to own a bank, then buy one with overseas exposure The decision for 3m Lloyds shareholders with the GBP13.5bn rights issue is a genuinely difficult one. Now that Chancellor Alistair Darling has decided to play...

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...RBS brands, which few consumers have ever heard of. Commercial business lending is quite active in part as customers of RBS and Lloyds have been running for the hills (ie other banks) due to uncertainty over their long-term funding. The...

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...least three new banks" onto Britain's high streets in the next four years. The British Treasury said Lloyds and RBS would between them have to sell off businesses equating to 10% of the UK retail banking market. Only new entrants or "small...

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...will issue new bonds which will bring the total fund-raising to more than AGBP20bn. With the extra cash raised by private shareholders, Lloyds feels it would then be in a position to decline additional government protection. That is, it...

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...blow which has made it extremely difficult." United have written to Secretary of State Jim Murphy welcoming his intervention with Lloyds Bank in the wake of Rangers financial troubles and stating that they would welcome his support on...

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...» Keen to avoid that, bosses have asked Chancellor Alistair Darling to let them sound out possible investors. Lloyds hopes it may find it easier to raise the cash now the worst of the credit crunch may be over, but there is no...

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...in the Champions League. And the Rangers support, one of the largest in the UK, has muscle. If the fans threaten a boycott of Lloyds/HBOS (and there have already been such mutterings) the bank is bound to ask whether or not the...

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