Wednesday, April 25, 2007

European shares up as RBS launches ABN bid

(Reuters) - ABN AMRO was up 4.3 percent, Barclays was up 1.9 percent. RBS lost 1.14 percent and Belgium's Fortis , part of the consortium was down 2 percent.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 0.2 percent, with banking stocks making the biggest contribution to the rise. Around Europe, Britain's FTSE gained 0.5 percent, Germany's DAX was up 0.3 percent, France's CAC 40 put on 0.5 percent.


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