<div class='node-body'><p>US prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting individual traders and charging them with colluding to manipulate global benchmark interest rates, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/23/us-banking-libor-criminal-idUSBRE86L0CC20120723">according</a> to <em>Reuters</em>.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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