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Citywire Investment News
- The Citywire Debate: should we blame fund managers for the financial crisis?
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:25 GMT
City minister and former Gartmore chairman Lord Myners thinks we should. Charlie Parker says no, Tony Bonsignore says yes.
- Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:15 GMT
Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
- Investment Line: Greek bonds rally but Euro equities face long debt struggle
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:25 GMT
Economists warn that austerity measures in the PIIGS will result in a protracted period of low growth
- Markets did not fail - people did, Lord Myners tell City
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:59:34 GMT
Financial markets must be able to punish just as easily as they can reward, Lord Myners said last night, in another attack on greed in the City.
- MPC's Kate Barker: More QE may not work
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:48:59 GMT
Kate Barker?s comments underline growing split within Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
Citywire News
- Nineteen applicants for every job, employment agency reports
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
There were 1% more vacancies in February than in January but the number of people looking for work climbed 50%.
- Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:08 GMT
Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
- The blue chips where you should dump bonds for equity
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
The large cap stocks which offer higher yields than their equivalent ten year corporate bonds.
- Online shoppers don?t know their rights
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:50:53 GMT
77% of shoppers don't know there is a difference between online and high street consumer rights.
- npower joins energy price war
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:48:52 GMT
npower becomes latest provider to cut prices, slashing gas bills by 7%.
BBC Business News
- BA strike action talks to resume
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:04:31 GMT
Talks aimed averting strike action by BA cabin crew are due to resume later, after a deadline was extended.
- Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:44 GMT
Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows.
- Royal junk mail
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT
Why postal reforms are good news for direct mailers
- Dotcom Crash
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:19 GMT
10 years on from the burst Nasdaq bubble
- EU concern over end of tanker bid
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:03 GMT
Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal.
BBC News
- UK seeks Afghan political drive
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:04:10 GMT
Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban.
- Medical records lost after error
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:40:04 GMT
A woman whose medical records disappeared from her GP surgery has sparked questions over the security of patient record transfers.
- Social care deal 'dead in water'
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:36:06 GMT
Attempts to reach a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water ahead of a key summit.
- Ancient eggshells of extinct species yield DNA
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:22:57 GMT
The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
- LHC fault forces 2011 shutdown
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:19:18 GMT
The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.
