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News and comment

Welcome to your on-line financial newsletter. This service is regularly updated to bring you news of important developments in financial matters.

The news stories on this page have been written and produced by a third party and neither nor its representatives can be held responsible for the accuracy of the content/information contained within these stories.

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.
  

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 the burst Nasdaq bubble
  

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.
  

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.
  

BBC News

• UK seeks Afghan political drive
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:04:10 GMT
  Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban.
  

• Medical records lost after error
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:40:04 GMT
  A woman whose medical records disappeared from her GP surgery has sparked questions over the security of patient record transfers.
  

• Social care deal 'dead in water'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:36:06 GMT
  Attempts to reach a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water ahead of a key summit.
  

• Ancient eggshells of extinct species yield DNA
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:22:57 GMT
  The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
  

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