UK Investmentbanking News

* Earl was once Category 4 hurricane, but faded (Updates with one dead, other local details)

* Says they plotted to overthrow monarchy through violence

HOUSTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - BP Plc's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is secure with no threat of spewing crude again, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said on Saturday.

Sept 4 (Reuters) - Canadian companies shut down some energy installations ahead of Earl which regained hurricane status as it lashed into the Maritime Provinces on Saturday, while U.S. energy operations were largely unscathed by the storm.

* Watchdog deal to give impetus on hedge, private equity

HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Earl has slowed to a tropical storm, with wind speeds of some 60 knots, or just below 70 mph (113 kph), the Canadian Hurricane Centre said on Saturday.

HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Canadian forecasters have measured hurricane-speed winds from buoys near the center of Earl and view the storm as a Category One hurricane.

AMSTERDAM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Dutch unlisted financial group Friesland Bank [FRIBK.UL] may sell a 22 percent stake it holds in private bank Van Lanschot to prevent potential problems with its solvency under new banking rules, its chief executive told a Dutch newspaper.

* Says govt has to re-examine growth targets in Vision 2030

HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Tropical storm Earl, a shadow of the massive hurricane that frightened the U.S. East Coast this week, picked up speed on Saturday as it bore down on Atlantic Canada packed with strong winds and rain.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Pacificmas :

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* Relief well drilling to resume in coming days (Updates with new equipment installed)

(Corrects reference to Pakistani people in third paragraph)

* Outer Banks earlier "dodged a bullet" - NC governor (Updates to show Earl downgraded to tropical storm)

SHANGHAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - China's central bank has set up a databank on companies' environmental records and banks were told not to approve loans to companies that have violated environmental rules, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday, weakening as it swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian billionaire Andre Esteves is in talks with an investor group from Singapore to sell a stake of about 15 percent of his Banco BTG Pactual SA, Bloomberg News reported, citing a person familiar with the negotiations.

IN FOR THE LONG HAUL: BA ROLLS OUT FIRST OF ITS NEW AIRCRAFT

* Mariner fire an "industrial accident"-Salazar (Recasts, adds government inspectors don't find leaking oil)