Updates from Royal Bank of Scotland and Tracsis

A very modest recovery for the FTSE 100: the Board climbed five points yesterday, up +0.08%, to 6,304. Miner Evraz climbed +5.10% to 119.5p while RBS, following boss Stephen Hester's ejection, fell -3.26%.

Across the water, the Dow Jones finished +1.21% up at 15,176 points yesterday while, overnight, the Nikkei is up +2.0% at 12,693.