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Citywire Investment News
- Investment Line: Has the recession permanently damaged UK GDP?
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:34 +0100
Measuring whether the UK's ouput gap is closing or lost forever after the downturn is playing a key role in determining monetary policy.
- Global markets soar as US jobs data brings more cheer
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:58:10 +0100
Today's US jobs data came in much better than expected dampening fears the world's largest economy is heading back towards recession.
- Wealth managers recover second quarter losses
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:20:46 +0100
Research from Asset Risk Consultants (Arc) shows wealth managers managed to recover some of the losses from dreadful in May and June.
- The financial crisis isn?t the problem ? it's expensive old people
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:18:23 +0100
We risk ignoring 'the fiscal challenge of the 21st century'.
- Capita employee in fatal fall at AXA office
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:43:06 +0100
A Capita employee has died after falling three floors inside one of AXA?s offices in Bristol.
Citywire News
- 10 collectables that can make you a lot of money
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:00 +0100
When was the last time you went through your attic? It might be worth having a dig around up there because for all you know that box of old 'junk' you buried away years ago could be worth a fortune today...
- The two pensions and why we shouldn't lump them together
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
We need another word for ?pension?, writes Steve Bee.
- The end of the 'cheap mortgage'
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
Linton Chiswick questions whether the regulator is about to call time on the last remaining ?cheap mortgage?.
- Sunday Papers: tips and comment
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
Western countries need trade liberalisation more than the East.
- Sunday Papers: Warning of 'sharp interest rate rise' in 2012 - other news
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
The Bank of England is this week set to hold interest rates at 0.5%.
BBC News
- Toshack poised to leave Wales job
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:00:14 GMT
John Toshack is on the verge of quitting as Wales manager after the defeat in Montenegro, BBC Sport understands.
- Car smashes through toilet of pub
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:38:55 GMT
A pub landlady tells how she discovered a car embedded in the wall of the men's toilets.
- Hameed hits out at fixing 'sting'
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:38:53 GMT
Pakistan's Yasir Hameed says a meeting he had with the News of the World that was secretly recorded has been "inaccurately reported" by the tabloid.
- US troops summoned in Iraq attack
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:25:16 GMT
US troops are called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents behind a deadly attack on an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, security officials tell the BBC.
- New Zealand assesses damage
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:19:43 GMT
Officials in New Zealand have been evaluating the damage caused in the city of Christchurch by an earthquake and its many aftershocks.
FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Fears rise as EU nations aim to raise borrowing
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:16:33 GMT
The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a dangerous phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies
- Do not fall for talk of European solvency
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:10:23 GMT
To guarantee the solvency of the eurozone?s peripheral countries would require not a few quarters of solid growth, but an entire decade, writes Wolfgang Münchau
- Outlook: Investors watch US data response
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:19:33 GMT
With hard statistics on the global economy thin on the ground, investors? attention will be focused on the response of policymakers to last week?s US jobs data
- Swiss franc benefits from haven status as doubts spread
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:07:29 GMT
Swiss franc hits record high against the euro and nears parity against the dollar as worries over the global economic recovery drive haven demand
- Bold financial seers look to models rather than the herd
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:59:46 GMT
Stocks have lost nearly half of their value twice in the past decade yet a suggestion the same is about to happen again draws scorn on Wall Street