BRITAIN’S plans to sell shares in NatWest Bank to the public this summer will be a test of a long-awaited upswing in the UK stock market that saw the FTSE 100 hit a record high last week – months after similar milestones for benchmark indexes elsewhere.
Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt hopes the sale of government-owned stock in the bailed-out bank, Britain’s biggest casualty of the 2008 global financial crisis, will spur Britons to invest more in UK-listed companies.
