HBOS/Lloyds stocks slide ahead of 'superbank' vote

Stocks in both plunged more than 13% less than 24 hours before Lloyds shareholders decide whether the proposal, which some analysts say would create the UK's first 'superbank', should go ahead. The price fall means HBOS is trading significantly below the price offered by Lloyds, a discount that has threatened to scupper the deal since it was first brokered two months ago by HM Treasury and UK regulators. Additionally, an eleventh-hour bid to stop the takeover by Sir Peter Burt and Sir George Matthewson, former heads of Bank of Scotland and RBS, appears to have been put to the sword by A...