Recession (26 news)
01:43 Nicely placed Greene King welcomes back customers : The chill wind of recession that wreaked havoc with the pub trade is being dissipated by the hot weather#44; according to Greene King#44; operator of the Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne chains#46;
Oil (17 news)
01:06 'Rogue trader' suspected of running up £6m crude oil lo : A "rogue trader" is suspected of causing 10m £6m of losses at the London office of PVM Oil Associates the world's biggest broker of overthecounter oil derivatives.
01:06 'Rogue trader' runs up £6m crude oil loss at London off
Unemployment (16 news)
23:58 Stock markets slide as jobless increase : Stock markets fell sharply on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday as soaring unemployment in Europe and America inflamed investors’ fears that a strong recovery from recession ...
Dollar (14 news)
19:33 China to allow trade transactions in renminbi : Beijing moves towards reducing reliance on the US dollar with new rules that will enable importers and exporters to settle their payments to select Chinese companies in renminbi
18:34 Canadian Dollar Drops After U.S. Employment Data Releas
House prices (12 news)
12:24 Economic recovery will be slow and painful, warns MPC's : The worst of the economic downturn is over but the recovery will be slow and probably painful, the latest economist to join the Bank of England's monetary policy committee predicted today.David Miles ...
British Airways (11 news)
05:18 BA calls in mediator after union talks fail to land sta : British Airways has called in a state mediator to broker talks with unions after the collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing pay and cutting 3,500 jobs at the airline.
Property (11 news)
22:19 Corporate tax: Escaping the shakedown : Governments are not raising corporate tax, but firms can no longer count on the taxman to treat them ever more kindlyWHEN the Irish government, reeling from bank failures and a monumental property ...
18:24 Property market: renting is all the rage
10:41 UPDATE 1-Orix to raise $1 billion for investments, repa
Royal Bank of Scotland (11 news)
09:55 RBS chief executive agrees to delay controversial £10m : RBS's Stephen Hester bows to union and investor pressure, while Sir Win Bischoff is among big names looking to take over at LloydsA government appointed bank boss who was awarded a controversial ...
Bank of England (10 news)
22:44 Business chiefs dispute claims of rise in credit to com : Lenders claim they increased the availability of credit to companies in the three months to June and forecast a further rise, in a Bank of England survey published yesterday, but ...
19:06 Bank of England says Britain seeing signs of improving
Citigroup (10 news)
01:15 Sumitomo Mitsui eyes stake in Nikko Asset - media : TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui FinancialGroup (SMFG) is considering buying a stake in NikkoAsset Management after Sumitomo Trust and Banking buysthe asset manager from Citigroup ...
23:56 UPDATE 1-Citigroup, Relativity agree to dismiss litigat
Forex (10 news)
19:42 Chilean Peso Faces Biggest Fall in 2 Months : The Chilean peso, which was one of the best performance currencies since April, fell significantly as a U.S. jobs report damped demand for risk and emergent market currencies.(...)Read the rest of Chilean ...
18:34 Canadian Dollar Drops After U.S. Employment Data Releas
Interest rates (9 news)
19:06 Sweden cuts rates to record low as European crunch deep : Sweden's Riksbank has cut interest rates a quarter point to 0.25pc and signalled emergency stimulus until late2010 fearing that the downturn will prove deeper than previously expected.
Housing market (8 news)
15:56 UPDATE 1-US mortgage rates fell in latest week-Freddie : NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage rates dropped inthe latest week, a move that bodes well for the hard-hit U.S.housing market, which has been showing signs of a recovery.
22:31 Lack of properties props up house valuations
18:37 UPDATE 1-US mortgage bond issuance plunges in 1st-half
HBOS (8 news)
20:12 ABN rump business's net liability seen at $9 bln : AMSTERDAM, July 1 (Reuters) - A pool of ABN AMRO assets leftover from the carve-up of the Dutch group following its 2007takeover by Fortis, Royal Bank of Scotland|Royal ...
BP (8 news)
00:33 Business Diary: Second time lucky for Gowers in PR : So best of luck then to Andrew Gowers, the former Financial Times editor, who yesterday began his new job as head of PR at the oil giant BP. Let's hope for both their sakes that this ...
The euro (8 news)
12:36 Swedish Krona Down on Central Bank Surprise : The Swedish krona lost against the euro and the dollar today after the nation’scentral bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate and stated that ...
Marks & Spencer (8 news)
08:31 M&S shows 2.9pc sales growth but food-price cut angers : This is not just food, this is M&S food. So ran the now legendary television adverts for Marks & Spencer. The problem is that in a downturn, M&S food can seem like an unaffordable ...
Unemployment Rate (8 news)
22:44 US jobs data spooks markets : GLOBAL share markets plunged yesterday after US employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5%.
UK economy (7 news)
19:11 CIM survey reveals optimism among financial marketers : The latest Marketing Trends Survey from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has revealed that financial marketers are cautiously optimistic about the UK economy.The survey, conducted ...
Livre sterling (7 news)
17:53 Royal Mail pension deficit: what's it all about : The Government has scrapped plans to partprivatise the Royal Mail. We look at the problems this leaves the service with its growing multibillion pound pension deficit.
13:19 Pound to hover around current levels over next year
13:16 RLPC-Wood Mackenzie completes 250 mln stg loan-sources
WIN (6 news)
09:55 RBS chief executive agrees to delay controversial £10m : RBS's Stephen Hester bows to union and investor pressure, while Sir Win Bischoff is among big names looking to take over at LloydsA government appointed bank boss who was awarded a controversial ...
Mortgage (6 news)
15:56 UPDATE 1-US mortgage rates fell in latest week-Freddie : NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage rates dropped inthe latest week, a move that bodes well for the hard-hit U.S.housing market, which has been showing signs of a recovery.
23:36 UPDATE 3-Fannie, Freddie ease terms for mortgage refina
22:32 UPDATE 1-Beazer Homes agrees to settle mortgage fraud c
Standard Chartered (6 news)
10:59 Peace named StanChart chairman : LONDON (Reuters) - Asia-focussed bank Standard Chartered named John Peace as its permanent chairman on Thursday, prompting him to step down as chairman of financial data company ...
Rio Tinto (5 news)
01:34 Rio wraps up rights issue : SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto wrapped up one of the world's biggest rights issues on Friday, saying its Australian shareholders had taken up 94.76 percent of their entitlements ...
Tesco (5 news)
05:19 David Prosser: Stuck between Rock and a hard place : Outlook Time is running out for Gordon Brown if he wants to return any of the banking assets that the British taxpayer owns back to the private sector before the next election. Of all ...
Sharp (5 news)
19:23 Rising job losses in US and Europe spark renewed fears : A steep rise in US and European unemployment spooked markets today, casting doubts on whether the world's biggest economy was recovering from recession. A sharp ...
04:46 Manufacturing contracts but pace is slowing
06:54 Wednesday Papers: US hit by surprise drop in consumer o
Greene King (5 news)
01:43 Nicely placed Greene King welcomes back customers : The chill wind of recession that wreaked havoc with the pub trade is being dissipated by the hot weather#44; according to Greene King#44; operator of the Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne chains#46;
Inflation (4 news)
05:59 Eurozone's negative inflation is first on record : Inflation in the eurozone turned negative in June for the first time on record, dipping 0.1pc over 12 months, according to an estimate from the Eurostat data agency yesterday.
European Central Bank (4 news)
15:23 ECB retains interest rates at 1% : The European Central Bank (ECB) has today elected to keep interest rates at 1% as widely expected.In an effort to boost the struggling economy, the ECB ...
Eurozone (4 news)
21:11 Diageo sees best day on 100; WPP Group drops most : European equities markets were lower Thursday after new data from the United States Labor Department revealed that unemployment was up again there in June and on a separate report that ...
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- 07. Property
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- 10. Citigroup
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- 13. Housing market
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- 16. The euro
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- 18. Unemployment Rate
- 19. UK economy
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- 21. WIN
- 22. Mortgage
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