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Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Do FSA Secret Funding Talks Amount To Hypocrisy? As news that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to agree to allow banks to tap the Bank of England for secret funding in times of trouble hits the market, the FSA now stands accused of...
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Tuesday 22nd July 2008
First The House Builders, Now The Construction Sector In a move which underlines how deep the UK slowdown is starting to bite it has been announced that Stewart Milne Group, one of Scotland’s largest construction companies has pushed through 289... |
Monday 21st July 2008
HBOS Take Up Worse Than Expected While the market was braced for bad news from the HBOS fund raising take-up, the final figure of 8.29% was worse than even the most pessimistic of investors had envisaged. The move leaves over... |
Monday 21st July 2008
Did The FSA Ruin The HBOS Rights Issue? While it was all done with the right idea in mind it seems as though the Financial Services Authority (FSA) may inadvertently have ruined the £4 billion HBOS fund raising after introducing... |
Monday 21st July 2008
Domino’s Pizza Beats The Gloom As the price of living continues to spiral higher and higher it seems that more and more people in the UK are ordering takeaways rather than looking at a more expensive night at a restaurant.... |
Sunday 20th July 2008
Do You Actually Know How Much You Are Worth Now? As the UK economy continues to spiral down towards a deep recession, the property market continues to struggle and personal debt shows no signs of falling, have you ever asked yourself how much you... |
Sunday 20th July 2008
Does Self Regulation Work? While the cornerstone of the free market concept is the fact that while there are boundaries there are very few barriers to entry and regulators only become involved when required – a kind of hands... |
Saturday 19th July 2008
Are The Authorities Too Soft With The Banks? Over the last few years it seems as though the banking sector in the UK has never been out of the news, from overdraft charges to increased set-up fees, from rising mortgage rates to closing down... |
Saturday 19th July 2008
Demand For Office Space Is Falling Fast While the commercial property market in the UK has been a thriving industry for many years it seems that the ongoing economic slowdown is starting to hit home. The Royal Institution of Chartered... |
Saturday 19th July 2008
Is Rod Kent About To Fall On his Sword? Rod Kent, the chairman of troubled UK bank Bradford and Bingley, has announced that he may quit the bank in the short term if he does not receive the support of his fellow directors. While the... |
Saturday 19th July 2008
HBOS Set To Announce Worst Right Issue Take-up Ever Seen Rumours that HBOS will be forced to announce that existing shareholders took up just 10% of the groups recent £4 billion rights issue are growing stronger in the City. If this is correct... |
Friday 18th July 2008
Is The Power Switching From Directors To Shareholders? The last few months have seen a large number of major companies come to the market cap in hand for financing to literally keep them in business. This has prompted many in the City to suggest that... |
Friday 18th July 2008
More Flights To Be Cut As The Oil Price Rise Hits Hard It had to come at some stage and this week saw a move which many thought had long been removed from the airline industry, the suspension of some routes due to the ever rising price of fuel. While... |
Thursday 17th July 2008
Bradford And Bingley Rights Issue Approved While the highly controversial rights issues by Bradford and Bingley has been in the news of late it was formally approved by a vote at today’s shareholders meeting, although there was some... |
Thursday 17th July 2008
Is It Time To Help Small Businesses? The UK has long been a hive of entrepreneurial spirit from the likes of Richard Branson to Sir Alan Sugar, but are the authorities doing enough to help small businesses? Is it time to offer them a... |
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Speculation has been mounting that further interest rate cuts will be announced by the Bank of England, after minutes from its previous meeting on cuts were released. They reveal that the Bank's n... 
