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Q: Where has all the money gone? </br> A: The banks are hoovering it up

CREDIT CRUNCH SPECIAL: how banks went from darlings of the stock exchange to pariahs By Selwyn Parker

IN banking circles it is known as "the stick", and it is beating to a pulp the institutions that backed HBOS's disastrous rights issue to shore up its capital reserves.