Editor's Picks
Best ISA deals
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
With only days to go before the 5 April deadline for the 2009/10 tax year, savers who want to invest in an ISA don't have much time left to find the best deals on the market.
Premium broker tips: TalkTalk's rivals can go the extra mile
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
Companies covered include: TalkTalk, Marks & Spencer, Greene King, JD Wetherspoon
Premium broker tips: TalkTalk's rivals can go the extra mile
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
Companies covered include: TalkTalk, Marks & Spencer
Cold weather hits Mothercare sales
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
The cold snap in the early part of the year and tougher comparatives contributed to a drop in fourth quarter like for like (LFL) sales at baby products retailer Mothercare.
Mobile phone firms told to slash charges
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
Britain’s four mobile phone groups have been told to slash charges for calls between different networks and between land lines and mobiles over the next four years by telecoms regulator Ofcom.
Cold weather hits Mothercare sales
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
The cold snap in the early part of the year and tougher comparatives contributed to a drop in fourth quarter like for like (LFL) sales at baby products retailer Mothercare.
Microsoft shaken from its complacency
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
The rapid rise of Internet search giant Google and the renaissance of consumer electronics leviathan Apple has tended to obscure two crucial facts about their relationship with Microsoft: in terms of market capitalisation, software behemoth Microsoft dwarfs both of them and in terms of revenue, it generates more than the pair combined.
Cold weather hits Mothercare LFL sales
Thursday 01 Apr 2010
The cold snap in the early part of the year and tougher comparatives contributed to a drop in fourth quarter like for like (LFL) sales at baby products retailer Mothercare. On the positive side, the international division pepped up the group's trading performance in the 11 weeks ended 27 March with a 19.3% jump in overseas retail sales.
Suspects in FSA's 'Saturn' operation charged
Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
The first suspects arrested in the Financial Services Authority’s insider dealing investigation, codenamed Saturn, have been charged.
Why what Pimco thinks about gilts matters
Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
As countries all over the world wrestle with the problem of rising deficits and sovereign debt, after bailing out the banks and stimulating their economies, the importance of funding and rolling over this debt, becomes more and more critical with each passing week.
Premium broker tips: Picture is clearer for Irish banks
Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
Companies covered today include: Irish banks, Daily Mail Group
Bank of Ireland agrees to €2.7bn capital raise
Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
Bank of Ireland says the additional €2.7bn of capital the government has told it to raise will see it through the current recessionary crisis in Ireland.
BSkyB ordered to cut price of sports
Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
Telecoms regulator Ofcom is on a collision course with BSkyB after it ordered the satellite broadcaster to make its two top sports channels available to rivals at a 23% discount to the current price. The new price will £10.63 (per subscriber per month) for each of Sky Sports 1 and 2, when sold on a standalone basis, which is 23.4% below the current wholesale price to cable operators.
Toumaz technology to take off
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Even to those who embrace the penetration of technology into just about every aspect of our lives, the idea of a ‘digital plaster’ may seem a bit far-fetched.
Daily Mail H1 ahead of expectations
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Daily Mail Group said first half trading has continued to be ahead of company expectations, but it remains cautious about the second half as the May election looms.
Bloomsbury FY profit drops, ups divi
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Book publisher Bloomsbury posted a drop in annual pre-tax profit but raised its dividend and said trading in 2010 had been excellent, helped by bestsellers such as Ben McIntyre's Operation Mincemeat.
Fourth quarter growth revised up
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Britain’s recovery from the recession was not quite as muted as previously thought, new figures showed.
BHP Billiton renegotiates iron ore contracts
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Mining giant BHP Billiton has successfully persuaded several of its iron ore customers in Asia to move to shorter term contracts.
RBS fined £29m for giving loan info to Barclays
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined £28.6m by the Office of Fair Trading after Barclays blew the whistle that information on loans to professional firms was passed between the two banks.
Gartmore suspends top fund manager
Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
Fund manager Gartmore shares crashed by nearly a third as it suspended its star manager Guillaume Rambourg after an investigation into directive trades. The firm said it took the action after consultation with the FSA, but insisted it was not connected in any way with the recently reported joint investigation on insider dealing by the financial regulator and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
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