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Citywire Investment News

• The Citywire Debate: should we blame fund managers for the financial crisis?
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:25 GMT
  City minister and former Gartmore chairman Lord Myners thinks we should. Charlie Parker says no, Tony Bonsignore says yes.
  

• Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:15 GMT
  Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
  

• Investment Line: Greek bonds rally but Euro equities face long debt struggle
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:25 GMT
  Economists warn that austerity measures in the PIIGS will result in a protracted period of low growth
  

• Markets did not fail - people did, Lord Myners tell City
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:59:34 GMT
  Financial markets must be able to punish just as easily as they can reward, Lord Myners said last night, in another attack on greed in the City.
  

• MPC's Kate Barker: More QE may not work
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:48:59 GMT
  Kate Barker?s comments underline growing split within Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• Nineteen applicants for every job, employment agency reports
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
  There were 1% more vacancies in February than in January but the number of people looking for work climbed 50%.
  

• Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:08 GMT
  Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
  

• The blue chips where you should dump bonds for equity
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
  The large cap stocks which offer higher yields than their equivalent ten year corporate bonds.
  

• More quantitative easing may not work, BoE rate-setter warns
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:47:18 GMT
  Kate Barker?s comments underline growing split within Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
  

• Pound falls as exports dropped 8% in January
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:46:55 GMT
  Sterling was under pressure again after new data showed exports fell sharply in January.
  

Citywire News

• Nineteen applicants for every job, employment agency reports
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
  There were 1% more vacancies in February than in January but the number of people looking for work climbed 50%.
  

• Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:08 GMT
  Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
  

• The blue chips where you should dump bonds for equity
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
  The large cap stocks which offer higher yields than their equivalent ten year corporate bonds.
  

• Online shoppers don?t know their rights
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:50:53 GMT
  77% of shoppers don't know there is a difference between online and high street consumer rights.
  

• npower joins energy price war
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:48:52 GMT
  npower becomes latest provider to cut prices, slashing gas bills by 7%.
  

BBC Business News

• BA strike action talks to resume
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:04:31 GMT
  Talks aimed averting strike action by BA cabin crew are due to resume later, after a deadline was extended.
  

• Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:44 GMT
  Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows.
  

• Royal junk mail
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT
  Why postal reforms are good news for direct mailers
  

• Dotcom Crash
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:19 GMT
  10 years on from when the Nasdaq bubble burst
  

• EU concern over end of tanker bid
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:03 GMT
  Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal.
  

BBC News

• Call to halt NHS medical database
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:48:42 GMT
  Doctors' leaders urge ministers to halt the development of a medical records database for patients in England.
  

• Formal Suu Kyi ban in Burma poll
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:47:02 GMT
  A new election law formally bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections planned in Burma.
  

• Inmate reoffending 'costs 10bn'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:55:17 GMT
  Reoffending by thousands of criminals serving short sentences in England and Wales costs up to 10bn a year, says a report.
  

• Leaping off the page - Belgian paper prints '3D edition'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:35:26 GMT
  A Belgian daily has issued what is thought to be Europe's first 3D newspaper - complete with cardboard viewing glasses.
  

• Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:26:56 GMT
  Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.