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Citywire Investment News

  • 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.

Mortgage News

  • 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.

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.

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