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Citywire Investment News

  • 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

  • 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


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.
  • 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.