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Let’s hope for a better, demerged, RBS when it’s back in private hands

9 June 2018

9:00 AM

9 June 2018

9:00 AM

At last the government has restarted the process of selling its stake in Royal Bank of Scotland. A first £2 billion sale in 2015 (of 5 per cent of the bank’s shares) took place at 330 pence per share, against a purchase price of 502 pence in the 2008 bailout.

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