Article: Royal Bank's shares dip amid big deal talk.(Business)

Article: Royal Bank stock sale to raise $2.3 ...
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  December 9, 2008 ;     600 words ...Royal Bank of Canada plans to raise as much as ... option for another 8.51 million shares. Royal Bank joins other Canadian financial-services ... financial crisis since the Great Depression. Royal Bank's so-called Tier 1 capital ratio ...

Article: Royal of Scotland surges on report HSBC might buy. (Royal ...
American Banker;  May 13, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Royal Bank of Scotland shares rose sharply ... natural target, it said, would be Royal Bank, the worst-performing U.K. bank stock in 1996 and so far in 1997 ... share price is another matter." Royal Bank is seen as an attractive target ...

Article: Barclays, Royal Bank turn cheap.(Business Report)
The Star (South Africa);  November 13, 2007 ;     631 words ... ... mortgage market would hurt profits. Royal Bank trades at 5.8 times estimated ... wrote last week that Barclays and Royal Bank might write down a total of [pounds ... who has been buying Barclays and Royal Bank stock. Simon Maughan, an analyst at ...

Article: Cover Story: Why RBS needs spin - Despite A Meteoric Rise To ...
The Banker;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... t believe it. Such is the case with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders, and ... money if I'd invested in any other bank stock rather than RBS. It has been the worst ... RBS was pretty much the most expensive bank stock in its peer group. "Then RBS stock ...

Article: Bank stock falls on fear tech firms will default ...
The Independent - London;  December 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... are already starting to appear. Some 20 per cent of HSBC's loan book is US-related while the exposure of Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland is just under 10 per cent. Worryingly, too, UK households are even more highly geared than the US, although ...

Article: Barclays Bank Stock Rises on Positive Report.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... failure to throw light on its efforts to find a chief executive will no doubt rekindle fresh speculation about a merger with Royal Bank of Scotland, down 3 pence at 1326 pence, which has a strong management team in place. Elsewhere, share prices failed to ...

Article: British Bank Stock Surges as Rivals Hover.
Daily Mail (London) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 3, 2002 ;     456 words ... ... bidders for the company, still 50 percent-owned by vate shareholders, include National Australia Bank, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland, whose chief executive, Fred win, says he is looking for "mercy killings." Analysts reckon a bidder would ...