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Financial sector faces ‘lost decade’, says think tank

Item Club reveals extent of slump and says output won’t recover until 2015

Scotland’s financial services sector has been condemned to a “lost decade” of zero growth as a result of the near collapse last autumn of its two largest banks, RBS and HBOS, according to one of Scotland’s most influential economic think tanks.