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Citywire Investment News

  • Sunday Papers: press tips and comment
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT
    Comment on Lehman report, BA, MS, House of Fraser, French Connection and BSkyB and tips for BP, Kenmare Resources and Earthport.

BBC Business News

  • Print baron
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:14:56 GMT
    A start-up that lets anyone make their own newspaper
  • BA strike is unjustified - Adonis
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:29:56 GMT
    Transport Secretary Lord Adonis attacks the planned strike by British Airways cabin crew staff, calling it "totally unjustified".
  • Market abuse 'unacceptably high'
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:53:10 GMT
    Market abuse in the UK's financial services sector is "unacceptably high", says the head of the City watchdog.
  • US bank regulation bill expected
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:13:17 GMT
    A new bill to tighten regulation of US banks is due to be unveiled, but it may struggle to get backing in the Senate.

Citywire News

  • Sunday Papers: press tips and comment
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT
    Comment on Lehman report, BA, MS, House of Fraser, French Connection and BSkyB and tips for BP, Kenmare Resources and Earthport.

BBC News

  • Sunderland 1-1 Man City
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:59:02 GMT
    Adam Johnson's injury-time equaliser salvaged a vital point for Manchester City in their bid to finish fourth in the Premier League.
  • French hostages 'freed in Darfur'
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:46:17 GMT
    Two French hostages seized in the Central African Republic in November have been freed, the French foreign minister says.
  • PM Maliki extends Iraqi poll lead
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:24:00 GMT
    Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki's bloc strengthens its lead over its main rivals with partial election results now in from all 18 provinces.
  • 'I did not help cover-up' - Brady
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:06:31 GMT
    The Catholic primate of Ireland says he did not assist in covering up investigations into sexual abuse in the 1970s.

FT.com - Financial Markets News

  • Economic Outlook: Little cheer for UK
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:51:57 GMT
    February?s public finance figures might allow the chancellor to announce a downward tweak to his previous forecast for the deficit to reach £178bn in 2009-10
  • Solid economic data give positive backdrop
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:33:36 GMT
    Global Markets Overview: Record rise in eurozone industrial production help global stocks build on Wall Street?s overnight advance, but gains tempered by uncertainty
  • Bid talk helps lift London equities
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:43:42 GMT
    BSkyB gained on market speculation that Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation, its 39 per cent shareholder, could take the broadcaster private

FT.com - Equities

  • Bid talk helps lift London equities
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:43:42 +0000
    BSkyB gained on market speculation that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, its 39 per cent shareholder, could take the broadcaster private
  • Wood pulp shortage lifts UPM-Kymmene
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:16:22 +0000
    Volkswagen shares rallied 4.3 per cent to ?74.43 after the German carmaker said it would use a convertible bond issue and a share sale to fund acquisitions
  • States eye sale of family silver
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:35:17 +0000
    The catalyst for privatisations in the 1980s and 1990s was ideological, but the current motivation will be far more financially driven, investors argue