The cost of nationalising RBS just went up

There were a lot of numbers in Royal Bank of Scotland's interim results statement, some of them bad, but most of them good or at least indicative of progress.

There were a lot of numbers in Royal Bank of Scotland's interim results statement, some of them bad, but most of them good or at least indicative of progress.

Technically speaking, the part-nationalised lender made a loss before tax of £1,505m in the first half of 2012, versus a loss of £794m at the half-way point of 2011.

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