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15:01 | 09 Feb 2010
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Deborah Hyde
Bank governor Mervyn King will be fighting to keep face tomorrow as the bank's inflation and growth forecasts lie in tatters.
12:18 | 09 Feb 2010
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Lorna Bourke
Choice is growing for retirees who want a guaranteed income over an agreed period of time without being locked in for the rest of their lives.
11:54 | 09 Feb 2010
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Matthew Goodburn
Investment managers sympathetic but not too surprised by Hector Sants' resignation as chief of the FSA after almost three years in the job.
10:22 | 09 Feb 2010
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Nicholas Paler
FSA chief executive Hector Sants has resigned from the regulator.
09:06 | 09 Feb 2010
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Deborah Hyde
British Land said the valuation of its properties has risen 8% in three months, boosting Lloyds and RBS.
09:06 | 09 Feb 2010
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Matthew Goodburn
Swiss bank UBS has returned to profitability in its 4th quarter but concerns remain over accelerating wealth arm outflows
09:04 | 09 Feb 2010
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Michelle McGagh
City minister Lord Myners is expected to tell institutional investors they have not done enough to oppose excessive bonuses, in a speech to the NAPF today, according to reports.
09:01 | 09 Feb 2010
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Chris Marshall
Bailed-out banks are not lending enough and the Treasury has few sanctions to make them do so, warns the Committee of Public Accounts.
08:31 | 09 Feb 2010
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Daniel Grote
Concerns about how far Greek debt contagion will spread caused the FTSE 100 to plunge at the end of last week, but worryingly sovereign debt is only one of the drivers that could cause the markets to enter the second leg of a double dip.
07:02 | 09 Feb 2010
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Himanshu Singh
SAP, the German software company, has let chief executive Léo Apotheker go after less than a year.
06:57 | 09 Feb 2010
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Himanshu Singh
Traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8bn (€5.9bn) against the euro, amassing the biggest ever short position in the single currency on fears of a eurozone debt crisis.
06:52 | 09 Feb 2010
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Himanshu Singh
British Sky Broadcasting on Monday night extricated itself from its controversial investment in ITV when it placed 404m shares with Morgan Stanley at 48.5p per share.
00:01 | 09 Feb 2010
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Lorna Bourke
End of year tax planning should start early this year as there is a raft of changes of which high earners must take account.
00:01 | 09 Feb 2010
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Deborah Hyde
An increasing number of surveyors are expecting house prices to rise in 2010 - despite a lull in house buying in January.
15:07 | 08 Feb 2010
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Deborah Hyde
Shares had been riding high in morning deals but ongoing fears about how Greek debt woes could affect the UK weighed in afternoon deals.
13:54 | 08 Feb 2010
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Matthew Goodburn
Jupiter's star financials manager Philip Gibbs says President Obama's proposals would lead to a temporary lack of competitiveness.
13:51 | 08 Feb 2010
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Dylan Lobo
Barclays' asset allocation guru says investors should not 'dance on the edge of the volcano' and should sell this liquidity-fuelled equity rally now.
11:26 | 08 Feb 2010
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Charlie Parker
It may be unclear just how correlated the stockmarket's rebound has been to quantitative easing announcements, but the withdrawal of fiscal support is a cause for concern
11:23 | 08 Feb 2010
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Deborah Hyde
Shares in selected retailers and drinks groups have been lifted by every World Cup since 1990.
09:10 | 08 Feb 2010
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Drazen Jorgic
Research from Capital Registrars underlines how dependent UK investors have become of just five stocks to meet their income needs.
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