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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.
- Why it's too soon to call the end of treasuries' bull run
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:24 Z
Risk assets have got off to a good start this year but strategists are sceptical about calling time on treasuries' bull run with so much uncertainty remaining in the global economy.
- Skandia drops Aviva Investors from Best Ideas after job cuts
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:29 Z
Skandia Investment Group has removed Aviva Investors? manager Julius Lipner from running money for its Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas fund, following the strategic review of the firm.
- The Polar Cap tech team's take on Facebook hype
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:48:50 Z
Polar Capital?s Nick Evans and Ben Rogoff believe a successful Facebook floatation will act as a positive catalyst for other social media related stocks, particularly LinkedIn and Chinese company Sina.
BBC Business News
- Tax deal brings out 2,000 evaders
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:59:03 GMT
Some 2,000 people from the UK with money invested in Liechtenstein have come forward after the tax haven was put under the spotlight.
- Euro 'could survive Greece exit'
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:53:40 GMT
Pressure is rising on Greece's national unity government to agree tough reforms as one European offical said that it was "no man overboard" if Greece left the euro.
- 'Europe is poor so should live within its means'
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:48:02 GMT
Time to learn from Asia and cut the cloth accordingly?
- Arab Spring hits India mango trade
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:25:58 GMT
Indias mango industry hit by Arab Spring
BBC News
- 'Suicide attack' on Nigeria army
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:59:23 GMT
A man in military uniform blows himself up outside a Nigerian army barracks in the city of Kaduna, which is also rocked by other blasts, officials say.
- Uganda MP revives anti-gay bill
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:57:02 GMT
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is reintroduced to Uganda's parliament - without the death penalty but still calling for life in prison for some offences.
- Gulf states fuel Syria isolation
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:54:44 GMT
Gulf Arab states expel Syria's ambassadors, accusing Damascus of shunning Arab efforts to end months of bloodshed, as Russian officials visit President Assad.
- Euro 'could survive Greece exit'
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:53:40 GMT
Pressure is rising on Greece's national unity government to agree tough reforms as one European offical said that it was "no man overboard" if Greece left the euro.
