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Barclays to Sell UAE Retail Business; Nothing Says “Economic Truth” Like KFC… Even in China; Sugar High on the Horizon, Investors Sweet on Higher Prices

Barclays to Sell European Retail Business (Reuters)

Barclays Plc., England’s fourth-largest bank by market value, is currently downsizing its United Arab Emirates (UAE) retail banking business, which could be in preparation for a sale of that unit. Already under a cost-cutting directive from Chief Executive Anthony Jenkins, the banking concern is eliminating 3,700 jobs, reducing salary for senior bankers and closing offices. And now, in the UAE, with competition increasingly fiercely, and domestic banks not held accountable to the same stringent risk-law that Barclay’s is, a

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