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Europe's investment banking recovery isn't sustainable

European banks have only stabilised their trading businesses

Don't call it a comeback.

Europe's investment banks turned in a surprisingly good second-quarter performance, particularly in the closely watched fixed income trading arena. But although they have regained some of the market share they lost to US rivals in recent years, this doesn't yet look like a sustainable turnaround.

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