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Barclays Bank leads London banking sector lower - European equities markets were substantially lower Wednesday on concerns that the debt crisis there is spreading and on skepticism that moves by the US Federal Reserve will keep the US economic recovery from slowing. The FTSE 100 ...

HSBC offloads US credit card division in $32.7bn deal - Banking giant HSBC has today announced it has disposed of its US credit card division to Capital One Financial, as part of a global strategic cost-cutting exercise. The announcement comes shortly after the bank said it would slash its underperforming ...

Royal Bank of Scotland Group down on first-half losses - European equities markets were down again Friday even though the US Labor Department reported that the economy there added 117,000 new jobs in July, cutting the US unemployment rate to 9.1 percent. The FTSE 100 was down ...

Australia cuts growth forecast - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has slashed its growth forecast after flood and cyclone disaster damaged the economy. The economy, dubbed the “wonder from down under” has recently experienced a slowdown after the disasters led to ...

UK banks on track to meet Project Merlin targets - Provisional figures released today have revealed that the UK's five biggest banks are on track to meet their lending targets under the Project Merlin deal. Under the agreement, Project Merlin, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland|Royal ...

RBS H1 profits hit by Greek crisis and PPI costs - The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has today unveiled a loss of £1.4 billion for the six months to the end of June. The bank, which is 84% owned by the taxpayer, said its exposure to the Greek debt crisis and costs relating ...

Halifax reports 0.3% rise in July house prices - The Halifax has today revealed UK house prices rose by just 0.3% in July on a monthly basis – the third consecutive monthly rise. The latest rise takes the average cost of a UK home to £163,981, the Halifax said. ...

Randgold Resources leads just four gainers on FTSE 100 - Equities markets were significantly lower in Europe Thursday on expanding concerns that the economic recovery is slowing globally. The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both held Interest ...

Miner Fresnillo leads gainers on FTSE 100 - European equities markets were down again Wednesday after the Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index was at 52.7 in July, against an expected rise to 53.5 after being at 53.3 in June, and after both Moody's Investors Service and Fitch ...

Standard Chartered reports rise in H1 profits - London-based emerging markets bank, Standard Chartered, has today posted half-year pre-tax profits of $3.6 billion (£2.2 billion) – a rise of 17% compared with the same period a year ago. The figures represented its ninth consecutive ...

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