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Citywire News
- Rexam flies ahead on profit gains as FTSE lags
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:36:35 Z
Britain?s benchmark stock index flatlines as downbeat data create a gloomy outlook despite the Greek deal averting a crisis for now.
- Barclays takes on Hargreaves in fight for DIY investors
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:30:04 Z
Barclays Stockbrokers has signed up funds platform Fidelity FundsNetwork in a bid to take on Hargreaves Lansdown (HRGV.L) in its core market.
- Welcome to an uncertain financial future
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:42:48 Z
Sandwiched between two skint generations, the Uncertain Generation are seeing their money squeezed like never before.
- Barclays: customer complaints down but 'still too high'
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:44:48 Z
Customer complaints fell 6% in 2011, but were up in the second half of the year and high in investments and insurance.
- Chart of The Day: PPI victims paid £2 billion but owed billions more
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:00 Z
New FSA figures show how much the banks have paid out in compensation to victims of the PPI mis-selling scandal so far.
BBC Business News
- South Korea wins Navy tanker deal
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:44:55 GMT
The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.
- Obama seeks US corporate tax cut
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:26:09 GMT
US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy.
- Bank members voted for £75bn QE
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:49:37 GMT
Minutes show two of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee wanted more money pumped into the economy, sending sterling down on the currency markets.
- Greek MPs consider bailout laws
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:38:48 GMT
Protests take place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs consider emergency laws after a 130bn-euro bailout deal.
- Peacocks sold but 3,100 jobs lost
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:04:47 GMT
Fashion retailer Peacocks is sold out of administration to Edinburgh Woollen Mill, saving 6,000 jobs, but 3,100 staff will be made redundant.
BBC News
- Nine cleared of UDA man's murder
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:20:50 GMT
Nine men involved in the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast are acquitted of the murder of UDA leader Tommy English.
- Argentina train crash 'kills 49'
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:15:23 GMT
A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.
- NHS 'will be Cameron's poll tax'
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:04:48 GMT
Labour leader Ed Miliband tells David Cameron he risks making NHS reform "his poll tax" - in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill.
- Mackay signs new Cardiff contract
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:45 GMT
Malky Mackay is rewarded for guiding Cardiff City to the Carling Cup final with a new three-and-a-half year contract.
- Vicar and teacher murder charges
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:35 GMT
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire.
