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Citywire Investment News
- Wednesday Papers: US producer prices fall at record 2.8% -- other news
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:49:20 GMT
Most US industrial executives expect revenue growth over the next 12 months; MS to hold one-day 20% off sale tomorrow.
- Wednesday Papers: Barclays still facing shareholder anger -- bid news and gossip
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:44:31 GMT
Woolworths in talks to sell retail empire to rescue fund.
- Wednesday Papers: tips and comment
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:40:23 GMT
Comment on Barclays, easyJet, HBOS, Carphone Warehouse, Rexam, Burberry, Big Yellow, Wolseley, ICAP and Premier Foods.
- Darling warns HBOS rivals that taxpayer cash is not automatic
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:00 GMT
Bank bail-out cash reliant on 'credible' management team and a 'sustainable business model'.
Mortgage News
- The Money Centre shuts up shop in Sheffield
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:47:44 GMT
The Money Centre has closed its Sheffield office from today.
- Home Buyer Systems unveils comparison index for brokers
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:34 GMT
Home Buyer Systems has launched the Home Buyer Sourcing Index to provide a “true cost” analysis of the differences between direct and broker facing mortgage products
- Inflation falls to 4.5%
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:50:39 GMT
Cheaper transport costs led to a record fall in inflation from 5.2% in September to 4.5% in October.
- Lenders barring applicants from SVR deals
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:56:24 GMT
Reserach from mform.co.uk says major lenders have barred new applicants access to their SVR deals in the face of falling rates.
BBC Business News
- Banks 'must lend to small firms'
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:02:11 GMT
The Lib Dems want ministers to take radical steps to encourage banks to help to struggling small and medium-sized businesses.
- US car firms ask for $25bn aid
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:33:13 GMT
The bosses of the three biggest US carmakers, Ford, GM and Chrysler, ask Congress for a $25bn bail-out.
- Downturn survival
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:45:48 GMT
Martha Lane Fox tells entrepreneurs how to survive
- Lloyds TSB vote on HBOS takeover
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:37:26 GMT
Shareholders of banks set to receive taxpayers' money have been warned that rejecting the deal would be costly.
BBC News
- Unions hold crisis Hoover talks
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:46:56 GMT
Unions hold crisis talks with Hoover managers in south Wales and the assembly government after 337 jobs are threatened.
- Seized tanker anchors off Somalia
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:13:26 GMT
Operators of a hijacked Saudi oil tanker anchored off the coast of Somalia say pirates have not yet made ransom demands.
- 'US raid' kills five in Pakistan
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:02:12 GMT
A missile fired by a suspected US drone kills at least five people in north-western Pakistan, security officials say.
- Miliband holds meeting in Lebanon
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:44:11 GMT
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has met his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Salloukh to discuss peace in the Middle East.
