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RBS, HBOS, Lloyds & Barclays to ask for £40billion tomorrow

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  • if i haw the news right, Barclays are NOT asking for a bailout, and their shares went up today..

    I bets they must be chuckling at not gettng tied up with AMRO and other toxets (= toxic debts- new word for today, all rights resered!)
    Long time away from MSE, been dealing real life stuff..
    Sometimes seen lurking on the compers forum :-)
  • Joe65_2
    Joe65_2 Posts: 148 Forumite
    ebyard wrote: »
    The Queen and the great and good bank with Coutts, owned by RBS, so they will, I imagine, be among the last to be nationalised...................?
    ...do they. That's it then . RBS fate is sealed. [what became of the the previous owners of Coutts?]
  • orf with ones' head!
    Long time away from MSE, been dealing real life stuff..
    Sometimes seen lurking on the compers forum :-)
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