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Saturday 2nd August 2008
FSA Calls Off HBOS Short Selling Investigation While the Financial Services Authority (FSA) launched an investigation into short selling and false rumours about HBOS in a blaze of glory, it has had to call a halt to the issue 5 months later....
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Saturday 2nd August 2008
Royal Bank Of Scotland Set To Report Largest Loss In Banking History The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is set to announce the largest ever loss in UK banking history this week with some analysts forecasting a lose in the region of £1 billion, but some... |
Friday 1st August 2008
British Energy Deal Collapses At Last Minute It a was billed as the way forward for the UK nuclear industry (in the hands of a French company!) and it was supposed to have been signed sealed and delivered last week, but last night saw the EDF... |
Friday 1st August 2008
Alliance And Leicester Hits Rock Bottom For those who were not sure whether the Alliance And Leicester takeover by Santander was the right move, today’s announcement that profits have been wiped out with a £209 million hit may help... |
Thursday 31st July 2008
Credit Rating Agencies Under Severe Pressure As we continue the blame game on both sides of the Atlantic it seems that the credit rating agencies are next under the hammer with EU and US officials looking at possible prosecutions. The likes... |
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Northern Rock Announces Job Loses In a move which has been on the cards for some time it was today announced that 1,300 staff will be losing their jobs at Northern Rock. While it is hoped that 800 will take redundancy a further... |
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Lloyds TSB Reports 70% Drop In Profits Profits at Lloyds TSB, one of the leading UK banks, fell by 70% for the first half of 2008 with the bank reporting a figure of £599 million compared to £1.99 billion for the same period... |
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Were British Airways And Iberia Forced To Merge? While the news that British Airways and Iberia were looking to merge was announced earlier this week there is a current train of thought which suggests that the merger was more of a necessity than... |
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Eight Suspects Released In Insider Trading Probe Yesterday we reported on the eight arrests on alleged insider dealing and market abuse allegations, with the FSA and City of London police swooping on a number of offices and homes early yesterday... |
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Have You Kept Track Of Your Old Bank Accounts And Investments? One subject which is never very far from the lips of the regulators in the UK is the array of bank accounts and investments which have remained untouched for years, obviously forgotten about and... |
Tuesday 29th July 2008
Tesco Long Term Debt Rating Is Lowered News that Standard and Poors (the well know credit ratings agency) has lowered the long term and short term credit rating for Tesco from ‘A-‘ to ‘A’ and ‘A-2’ to ‘A-1’ respectively has surprised... |
Tuesday 29th July 2008
British Airways In Merger Talks With Iberia Hot on the heels of a very difficult day for the airline industry, after the profits warning from Ryanair, it has been confirmed that British Airways and Spanish airline Iberia are in merger talks.... |
Tuesday 29th July 2008
FSA Make Eight Arrests For Alleged Insider Dealing While the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been very vocal in its pursuit of those who use and abuse the stock market in the UK, until now this has all been with very little end product.... |
Monday 28th July 2008
Ryanair Shares Dive After Revealing Loss News that budget airline Ryanair has posted a loss of some Euro90 million for the first quarter has seen the shares marked down over 20% this morning. The group has also advised the market that a... |
Monday 28th July 2008
UK Banks Set To Throw In The Kitchen Sink As we approach the bank reporting season in the City it looks as though the banks will be out to paint as bad a picture as possible in the short term to justify the many cash calls we have seen.... |
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Investments
Using a keynote speech at the CBI in Scotland we saw Gordon Brown looking more upbeat than he has for some time, more resilient and more candid in his approach to the struggle with the economy.... 
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