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Oct, 22 The price of the oil basket (OPEC) fell to $60 a barrel.

Oct, 17 World oil prices fell below $70 a barrel.

Oct, 6 The capitalization of the world stock exchanges fell by 2.5 trillion dollars.


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Royal Bank of Scotland


Royal Bank of ScotlandThe Royal Bank of Scotland plc is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, which together with NatWest, provides branch banking facilities in the UK. Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland though there are branches in many larger towns and cities throughout England and Wales.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Clydesdale Bank and Bank of Scotland, still prints its own banknotes. The current designs of the notes depict Lord Ilay (1682-1761), the first governor of the bank on the front, and Scottish castles on the back.

Headquarters:Edinburgh, Scotland
Website:www.rbs.co.uk
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Business and Financial News

Citigroup will sell Citibank Privatkunden AG for $7.7bn - 06.12.2008
Banking giant Citigroup Inc. says it will sell its German retail banking operation and some of its affiliates to France's Credit Mutuel, in $7.7 billion cash deal.
 
Repartition of the Global Banking System is inevitable - 05.12.2008
The financial crisis continues to storm in the global markets. This time the main victim of crisis is a banking system developed and developing countries. And experts notice, that the global banking system will undergo huge changes by 2012.
 
US government puts up $300bn in Citigroup rescue - 25.11.2008
The US government pulled Citigroup back from the abyss yesterday with a comprehensive bail-out that saw taxpayers guaranteeing $306bn of risky assets and injecting $20bn of capital into the banking group.
 
HSBC cuts 450 jobs in Hong Kong - 18.11.2008
HSBC was laying off 500 people in Asia, 90 percent of them in Hong Kong, in a further indication that the Asian financial community, so far relatively unscathed by mass layoffs seen on Wall Street, is being affected by the global financial crisis.

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