Barclays profits down 1% to £7.1bn

Story date: 2008-02-19 04:00:00
Added on: 2008-02-19 05:01:48

Guardian Unlimited - ... seen in 2006 as Barclays was forced to make hefty write-downs amid the meltdown in America's sub-prime mortgage market and subsequent credit ... first of the "big five" UK banks to report annual results - revealed it had set aside £2.8 billion in bad ...


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