After the live Twitter feed of the G20 protests yesterday, along with the Fool's Jokes, it's back to normality today. Here's what we're reading:
- RBS locked in talks with Treasury over renegotiating terms of insurance scheme (Guardian)
- Shareholders want Lloyds Banking Group bosses to go (Times)
- Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis (Telegraph)
- G20 leaders accused over toxic assets (Financial Times)
- Overview: Investors keep a nervous eye on G20 outcome (Financial Times)
- G20 leaders mull tripling of funds available through IMF (Reuters)
- G20 summit: What is the 'Anglo-Saxon model'? (Telegraph)
- G20 Summit: an easy guide to judge its success or failure (Telegraph)
- G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police? (Guardian)
- Banks get back to balance sheet basics (Financial Times)
- Banks see capital in paying off junior debt (Financial Times)
- Is the G20 summit a turning point for Twitter? (Telegraph)
- Is Twitter Turning Into MySpace? (Techcrunch)
Also, a thanks to PJ from JWG-IT for providing this picture from yesterday's protests, which I missed:
He may have dressed down, but I think that's asking for it?
Chris M Skinner
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