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Citywire Investment News

• Tools of the trade: Haig Bathgate's key influences
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Walker Crips fund manager Jan Luthman and a journalist turned fund manager are among the influences of Turcan Connell CIO Haig Bathgate.
  

• The client battle: the value of a large regional sales force
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:01:00 Z
  With the battle for new business tougher than ever, how important is it to have a large regional sales team at your disposal?
  

• Suitability conundrum: what if discretionaries are accountable?
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:01:00 Z
  A growing number of wealth managers and regulatory consultants suspect there could be pressure on discretionary managers to take responsibility for suitability for bespoke mandates run for advisers.
  

• Cowley: QE is not working - gilts are effectively worthless
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Old Mutual's Stewart Cowley says QE has had little effect and that a corporate bond QE program would be a winner as it would help stimulate the rise of the private sector.
  

• Lloyds to cut 900 jobs
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:56:29 Z
  Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 900 jobs - part of wider plans unveiled last year to cull 15,000 posts across the company.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• House prices rose 0.6% in January, says Halifax
  Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:54:16 Z
  The average UK house price is now £161,000.
  

• The 20 postcodes most 'at risk' of burglary
  Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:34 Z
  The areas in the UK that see the most home insurance claims for theft or burglary, and the postcodes that are least at risk.
  

• House prices flat as market 'dogged by uncertainty'
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  January marked the eighteenth month that house prices did not rise, according to Hometrack.
  

• Buying a house is now cheaper than renting one
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Buying a house is over £100 a month cheaper than renting, according to Halifax. Wales is the exception.
  

• Mansion tax: a terrible, unworkable idea
  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:58:02 Z
  Vince Cable?s plan to impose a tax on properties worth more than £2 million is impractical, unethical and cowardly, argues Linton Chiswick.
  

Citywire News

• The Expert View: BP, Capita and TUI Travel
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:01:00 Z
  A round-up of analyst notes, including their take on TalkTalk and Bellway.
  

• Wednesday Papers: Glencore-Xstrata merger threatened
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:11:00 Z
  And Greek shares rally as prime minister closes in on bailout deal.
  

• Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:22:00 Z
  All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks.
  

• Overnight Markets: US stocks advance on earnings reports
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:18:59 Z
  Coca-Cola rose 0.8% after reporting better-than-expected quarterly results, sending the Dow Jones to its highest level since May 2008.
  

• FTSE wavers as ?Glenstrata? deal weighs on miners
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:48 Z
  Britain?s benchmark index dragged down by miners as opposition to the merger of commodities giant Glencore and miner Xstrata mounts.
  

BBC Business News

• Jobs boost for economy in January
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:24:32 GMT
  Employers added permanent jobs for the first time in four months in January, says the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
  

• VIDEO: Passing down wealth in India
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:27:42 GMT
  A look at why passing down wealth to the next generation is important in India
  

• India and Iran reach oil pay deal
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:11:45 GMT
  India reaches an agreement with Iran to process payments for its crude oil imports, as US-led sanctions against Iran are tightened.
  

• Xinhua affiliate begins HK trade
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:38:07 GMT
  A TV company linked to the Chinese news agency Xinhua has begun trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange as it seeks to broaden its reach overseas.
  

• Bonuses row 'threatens business'
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:22:12 GMT
  George Osborne promises to fight an "anti-business culture", warning that the row over bonuses and pay threatens to undermine jobs and prosperity.
  

BBC News

• Santorum's hat-trick stuns Romney
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:37:00 GMT
  US conservative Rick Santorum wins races for the Republican presidential nomination in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, upsetting front-runner Mitt Romney.
  

• Dissidents get PSNI woman's phone
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:27:10 GMT
  A police woman's lost mobile phone containing hundreds of photographs and operational details falls into the hands of dissident republicans.
  

• UK freezes as temperatures fall
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:26:50 GMT
  Temperatures in England plummeted overnight but failed to match the coldest night of the winter so far.
  

• Jobs boost for economy in January
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:24:32 GMT
  Employers added permanent jobs for the first time in four months in January, says the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
  

• Syria: Assad assurances dismissed
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:21:31 GMT
  Syria's opposition dismisses assurances that President Assad is committed to ending the violence sweeping the country.