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Citywire News


BBC Business News

  • Oil price up as Asian stocks rise
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:08 GMT
    Oil prices bounce back from a three-and-a-half year low, tracking Asian stocks higher, but are still below $50 a barrel.
  • Banks 'must kick-start lending'
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:36:25 GMT
    Banks must start lending again to households and businesses, or face being named and shamed, the Treasury Select Committee chairman says.
  • Fullers upbeat amid downturn
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:55:05 GMT
    Fuller, Smith Turner says it is confident it will "cope well" even though the UK economic outlook did "not look good".
  • Singapore officially in recession
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:35:18 GMT
    Singapore downgrades its economic growth figure, which confirms it was Asia's first country in recession in the current financial crisis.
  • Aid request
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:40:40 GMT
    The CBI wants the chancellor to help small firms

London Stock Exchange News

  • Finances main worry for Britons
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:30 +0000
    The majority of Britons believe that finance is the number one problem facing the nation, new research from Axa reveals.
  • Property sector low on consumer confidence
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:18:30 +0000
    Consumer confidence in the property sector has dwindled, according to new research from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).
  • Interest-only mortgage gap growing
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:00:01 +0000
    A growing number of consumers have no plans in place to repay the capital of interest-only mortgage, according to new research.
  • Winterton backs pension marketing
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:58:43 +0000
    Pensions secretary Rosie Winterton has said that providers should do more to encourage consumers to save.

Mortgage News

  • Shapps calls housing target a con
    Thur, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:23 GMT
    Grant Shapps, shadow minister of housing, has called Gordon Brown's pledge to build 3 million homes by 2020 a con.

BBC News

  • Train fares rise 6% in new year
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:07:43 GMT
    Britain's train companies are to raise regulated fares, including season tickets, by an average of 6% from the new year.
  • Obama 'set to offer Clinton job'
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:03:10 GMT
    US President-elect Barack Obama is "on track" to nominate Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, US media reports say.
  • Oil price up as Asian stocks rise
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:08 GMT
    Oil prices bounce back from a three-and-a-half year low, tracking Asian stocks higher, but are still below $50 a barrel.
  • Pc faces quiz on alleged BNP link
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:15 GMT
    A police officer suspended after his name appeared on a list of BNP members is to be questioned by his bosses.
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