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<font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread bets and CFDs on bank stocks should consider that there is still trouble in the financial sector. Last quarter's earnings are coming in, and they are showing losses for major banks. Bank stocks are being hit rather hard on the FTSE 100. </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=ar8GNMKWgTOY&refer=stocks" target="_blank" title="financial sector, bank stocks, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread betting individual equities, FTSE 100" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bloomberg reports on the struggles in tthe financial sector</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> Royal Bank of Scotland, the U.K.'s second-biggest bank, lost 5.3 percent to 364.75 pence. Barclays Plc, the third largest, dropped 1.9 percent to 469.5 pence. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest bank my market value, declined 2.7 percent to 734.5 pence.</font></div> 9 application/xml false bank stocks CFDs contracts for differences financial sector FTSE 100 spread bets spread betting spread betting individual equities Spread betting on individual equities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.18 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web