My 2 cents worth (which would have been 20c pre- consolidation!) is that the rise is due to a combination of factors: cash coming back to equities generally because intervention in Syria seems less likely, and because the plethora of good news items lately about economic activity are the sorts of items that bode well for banks generally; house prices, jobs, GDP, external figures from the US and China. You will note that BARC and LLOY are also up at least 1% today as well.
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