Finance: Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are set to announce a deal to combine their brokerages, a move that could trigger a fresh wave of consolidation in the troubled and thinning banking industry
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Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports