{"id":35777,"date":"2013-07-08T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=35777"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:29:27","slug":"video-finance-latest-news-lloyds-shares-hit-two-year-high-on-overseas-buyers-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/07\/08\/video-finance-latest-news-lloyds-shares-hit-two-year-high-on-overseas-buyers-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Finance Latest News: Lloyds Shares Hit Two-year High on Overseas Buyers&#8217; Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=vcf62ea4ca19e15d8d9ccdda625658d3f5857da49&#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>Lloyds Banking Group shares jumped to a 2-1\/2 year high as overseas investors stepped up their interest in buying part of the bank and media reports suggested some may want half the government&#8217;s stake. Former Standard Chartered chief executive Mervyn Davies is talking to others about forming a consortium to be an &#8220;anchor&#8221; or cornerstone investor in part-nationalized Lloyds- which the government is planning to sell.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/07\/08\/ee191f9dcbce0191c680ef5568d3686df81cc3a2_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/07\/08\/ee191f9dcbce0191c680ef5568d3686df81cc3a2_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyds Banking Group shares jumped to a 2-1\/2 year high as overseas investors stepped up their interest in buying part of the bank and media reports suggested some may want half the government&#8217;s stake. Former Standard Chartered chief executive Mervyn Davies is talking to others about forming a consortium to be an &#8220;anchor&#8221; or cornerstone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/07\/08\/video-finance-latest-news-lloyds-shares-hit-two-year-high-on-overseas-buyers-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Finance Latest News: Lloyds Shares Hit Two-year High on Overseas Buyers&#8217; Interest&#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-35777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35777","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=35777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}