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- Ex-Cazenove partner convicted of insider dealing
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:35 GMT
Malcolm Calvert has been found guilty on five counts of insider dealing and fined £56k
- FSA: four risks for advisers in run-up to RDR
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:44 GMT
The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.
- High Court orders wind-up of Cru Investment Management
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:50 GMT
The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Cru Investment Management, which marketed the six Arch Cru funds.
- Bramdean Alternatives proposes pure private equity remit
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:29 GMT
The board of Bramdean Alternatives is proposing to change the trust's name to Aberdeen Private Equity and to give it a pure private equity fund investment remit
- Five reasons why insurers are better investments than banks
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:05 GMT
Stronger than hoped for results from Standard Life have shown again why insurers are better investments than banks.
FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Probe into $50bn equities crash of 2008
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:08 GMT
Nigeria?s new securities regulator has launched a sweeping investigation into alleged abuses that contributed to a $50bn equities crash in what had been regarded as a prime frontier market
- Stocks edge higher on hopes for global economy
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:26:06 GMT
Global Markets Overview: FTSE All-World index remains becalmed near six-week highs, with stock investors reluctant to push riskier assets higher without a fresh catalyst
- Weak output puts pressure on sterling
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:23:48 GMT
Sterling comes under renewed pressure after disappointing production data adds to lingering concerns over the UK?s economic recovery
- Indian harvest hopes sink sugar prices
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:19:09 GMT
Sugar prices tumbled on Wednesday but crude oil prices breached the $83-a-barrel mark following the latest US weekly inventories data
- Harbinger bid hopes fade
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:24 GMT
A revival of takeover speculation helped the FTSE 100 hit an 18-month high, but Inmarsat was left behind
Citywire News
- Grant Thornton?s top 10 Budget predictions
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
With Gordon Brown announcing that the Budget will be held on March 24, the tax experts are dusting off their crystal balls.
- Five reasons why insurers are better investments than banks
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:05 GMT
Stronger than hoped for results from Standard Life have shown again why insurers are better investments than banks.
- Online banking fraud up by 14% amid wave of 'phishing' attacks
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:33 GMT
Online banking fraud rose by 14% to £60m in 2009, while card fraud dropped for the first time in three years.
- Ten years after the tech bubble burst, the sector now looks cheap
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:57 GMT
Tech is still only trading on a multiple of 1.1x the market - despite an anticipated MA boom as the new cycle of technology kicks in.
- The economy is not yet out of danger, Gordon Brown warns
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:21 GMT
You can trust me, prime minister says, as he unveils a pay freeze for doctors, dentists, and hospital consultants.
BBC News
- Chile's new leader to be sworn in
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:34:09 GMT
Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in as president, with a major post-earthquake rebuilding effort ahead of him.
- High-speed rail line plan awaited
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33:05 GMT
Plans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are to be published by the government later.
- Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man, say Forbes
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:24:19 GMT
Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn.
- Mardell's America
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:06:59 GMT
'Open carry' activists do weekly shop with a gun
- Police 'risk public confidence'
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:50:31 GMT
Police failures to tackle anti-social behaviour risk public confidence, says the chief inspector of constabulary.