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FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Investors drop risk after US GDP data
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:43:20 GMT
Global Markets Overview: The FTSE All-World index is down 0.5% following a lower-than-forecast GDP growth report for the US, and the yen and short-term US Treasuries are seeing record demand
- BP move forces trusts to reduce returns
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:34:58 GMT
Investment trusts are being forced to cut pay-outs or dip into their reserves to fill the hole left by the suspension of BP?s dividend
- Coffee surges on poor Colombian harvests
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:27:38 GMT
Coffee prices hit their highest level in 12 years on the back of low availability of premium Arabica coffee j
- Weak growth weighs on dollar
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:22:47 GMT
The dollar fell below Y86 for the first time in eight months on Friday as mounting concerns about the US economy led to broader weakness for the greenback
- Growth fears leave Wall Street flat
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:01:33 GMT
Wall Street finished flat after spending most of the day in negative territory because of concerns about the slowing rate of economic growth
BBC Business News
- Interns are 'entitled to be paid'
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:34 +0000
Many young people working free as interns may legally be entitled to pay, a report says.
- Millions face repaying tax credit
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:09 +0000
Parents groups are warning many more people will be asked to pay back some of the tax credits they are awarded.
- Sale of EDF's UK networks agreed
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:21:50 +0000
A consortium headed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing has agreed a deal to buy the UK networks of French power group EDF for £5.8bn ($9.1bn).
- Northwest agrees to pay $38m fine
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:45:44 +0000
Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says.
- BP boss scaling back oil effort
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:46:21 +0000
Incoming BP chief executive Bob Dudley has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Times Online Top Stories
- Government scales back child worker vetting scheme
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:54 GMT
Plans to vet millions of people working with children and vulnerable adults are to be scaled back to ?common sense? levels, the Government announced todayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2c452c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199304108/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187450668/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199304108/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187450668/kg/45/a2.img" border="0"//a
- Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:03:21 GMT
9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2c072c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.img" border="0"//a
- Inflation eases as food prices begin to fall
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:51:00 GMT
Inflation eased in May to 3.4 per cent from a 17-month high the previous month, helped by weaker rises in food and petrol prices.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2b7537/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.img" border="0"//a
- News Corp reaches for the Sky with takeover offer
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:00 GMT
News Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2ae3e0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.img" border="0"//a
- Emails ?prove BP systematically put safety at risk?
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:21:54 GMT
Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2b42c7/mf.gif' border='0'/
Citywire News
- Sterling climbs on US woes but are we really faring better?
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
The pound has leapt to a five-month high against the dollar as investors compare the UK favourably with the US. Are these hopes valid?
- Mortgages: a tracker could save you money
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
If economists' forecasts are right and the Base Rate is really set to remain at 0.5% until the end of 2013, then trackers look a much better bet than fixed rate mortgages.
- Lorna Bourke: beware car insurance rip-offs
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
How I found myself paying over the odds for motor insurance I took out for my daughter.
- Fund of the Week: MG Optimal Income
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
The MG Optimal Income fund run by Richard Woolnough is one of our favourite investments. Head of research Jonathan Miller explains why.
- Shares fall to day lows as US GDP disappoints
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:52:03 +0100
(Update) US markets opened lower after yet more evidence the pace of the recovery in the world's largest economy is slowing.
