{"id":35722,"date":"2013-07-06T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=35722"},"modified":"2013-07-06T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T20:14:35","slug":"video-finance-latest-news-former-standard-chartered-chief-eyeing-lloyds-stake-buy-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/07\/06\/video-finance-latest-news-former-standard-chartered-chief-eyeing-lloyds-stake-buy-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Finance Latest News: Former Standard Chartered Chief Eyeing Lloyds Stake Buy: Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=v4f23dbd81faf599df030bdac59038050550edd1b&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Standard Chartered chief executive Mervyn Davies is forming a consortium of sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions to buy as much as half of Britain&#8217;s 20 billion pound ($29.77 billion) stake in Lloyds Banking Group , Sky News reported. Davies approached Britain&#8217;s Treasury several months ago about his plan to buy as much as half of the British taxpayer&#8217;s 39 percent share in Lloyds, Sky said on Saturday citing insiders. U.S.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/07\/06\/3adb6510cef36be104be6814214af1a77ed0a22a_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/07\/06\/3adb6510cef36be104be6814214af1a77ed0a22a_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Standard Chartered chief executive Mervyn Davies is forming a consortium of sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions to buy as much as half of Britain&#8217;s 20 billion pound ($29.77 billion) stake in Lloyds Banking Group , Sky News reported. Davies approached Britain&#8217;s Treasury several months ago about his plan to buy as much as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/07\/06\/video-finance-latest-news-former-standard-chartered-chief-eyeing-lloyds-stake-buy-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Finance Latest News: Former Standard Chartered Chief Eyeing Lloyds Stake Buy: Sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}