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Two houses for me, no jobs for you

06.11.09

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British Airways hits turbulence as brokers say worst is yet to come

24.09.09

Shares in British Airways went into a tailspin today as UBS warned that the airline won't make a profit until 2012.... more

Quintain slumps as Lloyds takes big loss on stake sale

10.09.09

Lloyds Banking Group today sold a 10% stake in London-based residential property developer Quintain Estates & Development, which it acquired along with duff bank HBOS earlier this year, notching up a thumping loss of almost �100 million ... more

Collins Stewart back on track with �6.1m and hiring again

11.08.09

Broking firm Collins Stewart swung back into the black in the first half of the year after losing more than �15 million last year and has started hiring senior staff again as its rivals struggle ... more

Dana is watered down as its oil search comes to nothing

22.05.09

Dana Petroleum was one of the biggest casualties among second-liners with the price tumbling 31p to 1223p... more

Evolution sings praises of strong fixed-income show

19.05.09

Stockbroker Evolution was crowing about its successful drive into fixed income as it reported �very strong growth� in revenues from the division... more

Hawkpoint succeeds despite M&A drought

01.05.09

Staff at takeover advisory boutique Hawkpoint are working flat out despite the collapse of the mergers and acquisitions market ... more

Lipoxen leaping as it gets investors� swine flu vote

30.04.09

AIM-listed tiddler Lipoxen has been elected by stock-market investors to lead the global fightback against the deadly swine flu virus... more

Barclays spurs Footsie rally as banks return to favour

16.04.09

Cash-strapped Barclays climbed back above 200p today for the first time since October with a rise of 9.7p to 206.5p, making it one of the best performers among the FTSE 100, as more than 50 million shares were traded... more

Jobs crisis has spread well beyond City, recruiter says

07.04.09

Carnage in the jobs market is spreading from the City to the wider economy as recession bites, recruitment firm Michael Page said... more

Cenkos profit slumps and rival posts a loss

26.03.09

Top City stockbroker Andy Stewart may have had a cracking Cheltenham Festival, notably with his Big Buck's winning a flagship race, but the day job is not going quite so well... more

No profits, no bonuses, Terry Smith tells staff

17.03.09

Top earners at City broker Collins �Stewart have had their bonuses held back and the rest of the staff have been told �to wake up and get real� about their bonus expectations... more

Rule change by Brussels on slots puts heat on BAA

13.03.09

London airports group BAA is set to slump deeper into crisis after a key Brussels ruling that could see airlines slash flights to avoid take-off and landing charges... more

Those pension promises will get lost in the post

12.03.09

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What the analysts say

09.02.09

Alex Potter, banking analyst at broker Collins Stewart, described Barclays' immediate future as "pretty bleak"... more

Passenger duty will hit the low-cost airlines hard

25.11.08

Aviation: The hike in the Government's air-passenger tax will drag down profits at Britain's top airlines... more

Market report: Footsie extends its gains as Morgan turns bullish

04.11.08

The London stock market was shaping up for its sixth consecutive day of gains as one of the City's big-hitters turned bullish after being almost 18 months out in the cold... more

Rate-cut hopes spark cautious Footsie rally

29.10.08

Hard-pressed financials led the charge as stock-market investors pinned their hopes on an early and sizeable cut in interest rates ... more

City finds flaws in Darling's plan

08.10.08

Fund managers and banking analysts react with dismay to the Treasury�s plans to control how much banks pay out in dividends if they take up any of the Government�s �50 billion recapitalisation offer... more

Finance

08.10.08

Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

Bidder for Collins Stewart walks away

25.09.08

Stockbroking: City pugilist Terry Smith saw his second big deal in a fortnight fall apart as an unnamed bidder walked away from his �250 million broker and investment bank Collins Stewart... more

City job cuts �to hit Go-Ahead

23.09.08

Transport: Go-Ahead group shares are set to come under pressure because it appears most exposed to the financial downturn... more

Collins Stewart's profits crash 82% as listings fall off

12.08.08

Stockbroker and investment bank today reported a fall in profits as stock market listings in London dried up... more

Wellcome �is building a Marks & Spencer stake�

07.08.08

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Barclays' worries ease as wealth funds stump up

16.06.08

Barclays said it was close to finalising a huge fundraising, and told the stock market its May profits were well ahead of last year's... more

How Evolution's way paid off

28.05.08

It is often said that the way to make money in investing is not to seek to milk every last drop of profit from the bull markets but to avoid horrendous losses in the downturns... more

Crisis blow to smaller firms' AIM cash hopes

19.05.08

The credit crunch is having a dire effect on smaller companies' plans to float or raise money on the Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market... more

HSBC takes new �1.3bn hit from the credit crisis

12.05.08

But the bank said its profits for the first three months of this year were ahead of the same time last year... more

RBS costs a fortune, but the culprits still hang on

24.04.08

The reddest face in Edinburgh belongs to Archie Hunter, a 64-year-old former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland - and chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland's audit committee.... more