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Short-sellers' fingers start twitching as banks go cheap to raise cash

08.10.09
Selling short can be a perilous manoeuvre in the current stock market climate... more

Counting the cost a year after Lloyds' takeover of HBOS

17.09.09
One year ago today, the news broke that Lloyds TSB was going to take over HBOS in a £12.2 billion all-share deal. With the benefit of hindsight, it is still staggering to read the press release issued to the Stock Exchange the following morning, 18 September... more

Watchdog's refusal to scrap rules on ads is a turn-off for ITV shares

15.09.09
Shares in Coronation Street broadcaster ITV dropped 2.7p to 49.8p after the Competition Commission said it won't scrap advertising rules put in place when Carlton and Granada merged six years ago... more

Slew of sparkling figures show there’s life in UK PLC

30.07.09
Leading shares launched a fresh assault on the 4600 level again, enabling stock-market investors to extend their current winning streak... more

VICTIMS: Politicians and stars ‘caught in the trap’

09.07.09
List of those targeted in News of the World operations to hack mobile phones and purchase confidential information is a wide cross-section from the worlds of politics and showbusiness... more

There ain’t no cure for summertime blues in the City

25.06.09
A couple of years ago, it was pretty much guaranteed that from the fourth weekend of July through to the first week of September the City shut down... more

BT gets staff to work for rivals to cut costs

19.06.09
First British Airways asked staff if they felt like working for nothing. Now British Telecom says they should go and work for rivals - just for a while... more

JPMorgan likes the look of property

16.06.09
US investment bank JPMorgan expects some clear winners to emerge from the commercial property market during the coming months, and has raised share price targets by an average of 5% for the first time in two years... more

Divi cuts should not be an option

28.05.09
Last time we were in recession in the Nineties, boards were so scared of the likely reaction of institutional investors if they suggested a dividend cut that they continued paying, even when the profits were not there, by dipping into reserves accumulated in the earlier good times ... more

Xstrata on retreat despite success of £4bn cash call

18.03.09
Mining giant Xstrata today confirmed that its whopping £4.1 billion rights issue had been a runaway success... more

Those pension promises will get lost in the post

12.03.09
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Footsie unshaken by huge rise in American jobless

06.03.09
A dramatic rise in the number of Americans who lost their jobs last month saw the US unemployment rate today rise to its highest in 25 years and raised fresh fears about the health of the world's biggest economy... more

Shares are driven down by banks' continued frailty banks

16.02.09
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L&G dives to record low on talk of cash call or divi cut

16.02.09
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BT warns of new charges blow after 81% plunge

12.02.09
Telecoms: BT Group has warned it could face "further substantial" charges at its troubled Global Services division as it revealed an 81% collapse in third-quarter profits... more

BT faces £17m bill for pensions protection

11.02.09
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT faces a near-£17 million bill after it was ordered to make several years of payments into the scheme that covers pensions when firms go bust. ... more

City venue 'loses thousands' after BT error blocked calls

22.01.09
A fledgling City business is struggling to survive after a British Telecom error blocked customer calls for 26 days... more

‘RBS behaved badly but I can pull it through’

21.01.09
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It’s investor interests that matter

13.01.09
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Market report: Debt-heavy 3i dives to another new low

24.12.08
Two years ago the fortunes of private-equity companies were riding high, but not any more. The credit crunch and subsequent stock market crash have made life difficult for the likes of 3i Group, which saw its shares slump to yet another new low today.... more

10,000 jobs axed at BT as 1000 bankers go too

13.11.08
BT axed 10,000 jobs and more than 1,000 City bankers were facing unemployment as the full impact of the economic downturn took hold... more

Market report: Barclays hit as brokers slam fundraising plans

03.11.08
Its rivals may have hogged the headlines with news of further write-downs, but it was Barclays that attracted some undesired attention from brokers... more

BT warns of an £80m blow to profits and Global boss goes

31.10.08
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT issues a shock profits warning that its profits will come in some £80 million lower than expected in the year to next March... more

BT Group tumbles as main rivals call shots

31.07.08
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Job cut costs clip bottom line at BT

31.07.08
Telecoms group's net profits fell 35% in first quarter as the cost of job cuts takes its toll... more

BT plans a £1.5bn superfast step-up for broadband

15.07.08
BT today promised millions of customers the chance to receive superfast broadband - running at five to 10 times current speeds - by the time of the London Olympics in 2012... more

I rejoice in my freedom from the coils of a computer

11.07.08
It is well-known among my peers that I have no computer, that I first write illegibly by hand and then legibly - a polished transcript - on a manual typewriter... more

2012 chiefs admit fears over £700m sponsorship

08.07.08
Olympics chiefs have admitted their target of raising £700 million in sponsorship will become increasingly difficult due to the global economic downturn... more

Verwaayen signs off from BT with revenues surprise

15.05.08
Ben Verwaayen signs off as chief executive of BT Group after six years in charge on a high with much better than expected trading in the final three months of its financial year... more

Home-price wobbles as buy-to-lets feel pinch

01.04.08
Problems in buy-to-let could easily destabilise the whole housing market... more

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