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- Osborne scraps pre-Budget report
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:09:46 +0100
Chancellor George Osborne is to scrap the pre-Budget report and replace it with a slimmed-down autumn statement, according to the Financial Times.
- Equitable Life victims push for full compensation
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:58:18 +0100
Victims of the Equitable Life scandal are making a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation, according to the BBC.
- Gartmore awards top staff equity stake
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:45:43 +0100
Gartmore has awarded a group of the company?s top staff 3.5% of its equity to encourage them to stay at the business, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
- SJP to launch income fund run by Artemis's Frost and Gosden
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:23:17 +0100
St James's Place is to launch a UK and international income fund run by Artemis's Adrian Frost and Adrian Gosden. SJP will also retain Nick Purves and Ian Lance as managers of its Equity Income fund after their switch to RWC, and pass the mandate for its Global managed and Global funds to US group Artisan Partners.
- Dawn Chorus: Stock markets upbeat on optimism about US economy
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:58:00 +0100
Investors eye a series of central bank meetings for signs of confidence over the state of recovery in developed economies.
Citywire News
- Equitable Life victims push for full compensation
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:58:18 +0100
Victims of the Equitable Life scandal are making a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation, according to the BBC.
- Dawn Chorus: Stock markets upbeat on optimism about US economy
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:58:00 +0100
Investors eye a series of central bank meetings for signs of confidence over the state of recovery in developed economies.
- Monday Papers: tips and comment
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:50:00 +0100
Carrefour is in partial retreat over emerging markets.
- Monday Papers: Santander could hire 6,000 new staff - other news
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:49:00 +0100
The spanish lender launches a recruitment drive as it presses ahead with UK expansion.
- Monday Papers: Private equity groups line up bids for Polkomtel - bid news and gossip
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:45:00 +0100
Potential suitors are lining up ?4bn leveraged buy-out bids for Poland?s leading mobile phone operators.
FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Asian shares higher on US jobs data
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:48:32 GMT
Asian shares are higher as better-than-expected US jobs data ease concerns about the global economic recovery, though investors are cautious ahead of the US market holiday
- Pre-Budget report to be ditched
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:35:23 GMT
The chancellor will scrap the pre-Budget report this year in a break with Gordon Brown?s era and a signal of a return to more normal economic policymaking
- Fears rise as EU nations aim to raise borrowing
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:16:33 GMT
The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a dangerous phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies
- Do not fall for talk of European solvency
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:10:23 GMT
To guarantee the solvency of the eurozone?s peripheral countries would require not a few quarters of solid growth, but an entire decade, writes Wolfgang Münchau
- Outlook: Investors watch US data response
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:19:33 GMT
With hard statistics on the global economy thin on the ground, investors? attention will be focused on the response of policymakers to last week?s US jobs data
BBC News
- BA boss reveals takeover ambition
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:17:09 GMT
British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.
- Met to probe phone-hack evidence
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:11:07 GMT
The Metropolitan Police says it will consider new evidence about allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.
- Diabetes drug used despite advice
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:10:56 GMT
Senior doctors are calling for a drug used to treat Type Two Diabetes, to be withdrawn on safety grounds.
- Tube strike disruption expected
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:00:49 GMT
Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.
- 'Many dead' in DR Congo accidents
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:53:07 GMT
Many people are feared dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after two boats capsize in separate incidents.