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Citywire Investment News

• Lloyds to cut 900 jobs
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:56:29 Z
  Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 900 jobs - part of wider plans unveiled last year to cull 15,000 posts across the company.
  

• Why it's too soon to call the end of treasuries' bull run
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:24 Z
  Risk assets have got off to a good start this year but strategists are sceptical about calling time on treasuries' bull run with so much uncertainty remaining in the global economy.
  

• Skandia drops Aviva Investors from Best Ideas after job cuts
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:29 Z
  Skandia Investment Group has removed Aviva Investors? manager Julius Lipner from running money for its Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas fund, following the strategic review of the firm.
  

• The Polar Cap tech team's take on Facebook hype
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:48:50 Z
  Polar Capital?s Nick Evans and Ben Rogoff believe a successful Facebook floatation will act as a positive catalyst for other social media related stocks, particularly LinkedIn and Chinese company Sina.
  

BBC Business News

• Tax deal brings out 2,000 evaders
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:59:03 GMT
  Some 2,000 people from the UK with money invested in Liechtenstein have come forward after the tax haven was put under the spotlight.
  

• Euro 'could survive Greece exit'
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:53:40 GMT
  Pressure is rising on Greece's national unity government to agree tough reforms as one European offical said that it was "no man overboard" if Greece left the euro.
  

• 'Europe is poor so should live within its means'
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:48:02 GMT
  Time to learn from Asia and cut the cloth accordingly?
  

• Arab Spring hits India mango trade
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:25:58 GMT
  Indias mango industry hit by Arab Spring
  

BBC News

• Monaco royals in privacy defeat
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:12:56 GMT
  The European Court of Human Rights rejects a complaint by Princess Caroline of Monaco, in a ruling backing media rights on celebrity reporting.
  

• California court backs gay unions
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:38 GMT
  A California court rules that a bar on same-sex unions is unconstitutional, in the latest stage of a long-running battle over the issue in the US state.
  

• Fall from grace for Maldives' democratic crusader
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:02:35 GMT
  How the Maldives' President Nasheed fell from grace
  

• Gulf states fuel Syria isolation
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:54:05 GMT
  Gulf Arab states expel Syria's ambassadors, accusing Damascus of shunning Arab efforts to end months of bloodshed, as Russian officials visit President Assad.