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Quitting Time: Standard Chartered is getting out of the institutional equities business, and analysts seem to agree the U.K.-based bank is making the right call. Its equity sales and research units was "unprofitable," according to the papers, and shutting them down will save the bank $100 million. Investors have been calling on Standard Chartered to restructure in order to boost earnings; the Financial Times' Lex team suggests that paring down the bank's...