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Banks shock as RBS faces a £1.5bn loss - Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to plunge up to £1.5bn into the red - the biggest loss in British banking history



Banks shock as RBS faces a £1.5bn loss  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to plunge up to £1.5bn into the red - the biggest loss in British banking history
Energy firms face carbon cash grab  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown has interrupted his seaside family holiday to intervene in the growing row over soaring fuel prices
Weekly market report: Bad news for banks  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
The past week has been all about the UKs High Street banks and their disastrous half year profits
The iPhone to go 'nano'  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Apple is about to launch a 'nano' version of the hugely successful iPhone. It is expected to be in the shops in time for Christmas
Home improvement loans 'up almost 90%'  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Lloyds TSB said it had seen a near 20% jump in the number of people looking to borrow money to improve their home
A&L profit wiped out in £209m assets hit  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Profits at Alliance & Leicester were all but wiped out today as it became the latest bank to be trashed by the credit crunch
Air fares to soar as BA profits fall by 90%  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
British Airways profits have fallen by nearly 90% and its boss admits the airline industry is in crisis
Impossible to prove HBOS trader foul-play  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Analysts believe it is impossible to prove the aggressive selling of HBOS shares earlier this year was due to malicious rumour-mongering
Price rise is 'invitation to dodge' insurance  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
The number of uninsured drivers could rise in the wake of increases in motor premiums of an inflation-busting 6%
US credit crunch still taking its toll  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
The fallout from the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc on both sides of the Atlantic as the one year anniversary of the crisis nears
A year on, Hips are just 'a waste of time'  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
The majority of house buyers think Home Information Packs are a waste of time, a survey has revealed
Sadie Frost's firm goes bust with £4m debt  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Sadie Frost's clothing company FrostFrench has gone into administration with debts of more than £4m
Turner: State pension age must rise to 70  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Workers will have to stay in employment until they are 70 as happened 100 years ago, the Government's pensions guru predicted today
HBOS profit falls 51% on subprime blow  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Halifax owner HBOS today reported a 51% slump in profits after it was hit by writedowns of £1.1bn
Buy-to-let yields 'stable' at 6.4%  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Buy-to-let landlords are continuing to benefit from strong rental demand as the property market takes a hit, according to new figures
Let's hear it for a Tesco 'value' bank  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: A rum deal in the Caribbean  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
A sickening jackpot for mis-selling  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Banks are to blame for mortgage madness  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Asia lights up the FTSE  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Trade talks collapse may put us in reverse  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]
Midas share tips: Santander and Rexam  [08/03/2008 01:17 PM]