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Shares in the State’s two main banks AIB and Bank of Ireland have rebounded from early falls on the Dublin market today.

At 11.45am AIB shares were up over 10 per cent with over 6 million shares traded having earlier fallen by over 16 per cent in the first hour of trade on Dublin's Iseq. Just before noon its stock was trading at 61 cent.