Britain pours cold water on RBS reports

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister George Osborne on Saturday dismissed newspaper reports the government was planning to give away its stake in state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland by 2015, saying such discussions were "premature." Britain owns 82 percent of RBS after rescuing the bank by pumping in 45 billion pounds ($70 billion) of capital when it neared collapse in 2008. ...