LONDON -- Barclays
The news takes Barclays' total provisions to date to 2 billion pounds, after a 1 billion-pound charge made in 2011 and 300 million pounds made in the first quarter of 2012. Shares in Barclays fell 2% to 240 pence on the news, as investors were no doubt taken aback by the level of increase in just a few months.
Barclays also said that it expects to post an underlying third-quarter profit figure of 1.7 billion pounds when it releases its next results on 31 October. However, after the additional PPI charge, plus a 1.1 billion pounds charge related to its own borrowings, the bank might actually report an overall loss in the region of 0.1 billion pounds.
The news about the additional PPI costs also had a knock-on effect on other banks.
In particular, Lloyds Banking
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