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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

• James Montier: The 'Austerians' will destroy the recovery and usher in deflation
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:33:04 +0100
  The 'Austerians' could destroy an economic recovery and increase the likelihood of deflation, warns influential investor James Montier.
  

• Saints hikes divi and expects shareholder payouts to rise
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:10:40 +0100
  Manager of the Baillie Gifford trust Patrick Edwardson says as the global economic recovery picks up, so too will company profits and their payouts to shareholders. 
  

• Exeter IFA firm strikes outsourcing deal with Brooks Macdonald
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:27 +0100
  RK Shipman has entered into an agreement with Brooks Macdonald for the London based asset manager to run its clients' money.
  

• Push start from Fidelity helped Ocado get its flotation away
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:56:34 +0100
  Ocado had to rely on existing shareholders - and fund management group Fidelity in particular - to get its recent stock market flotation away.
  

BBC Business News

• Interns are 'entitled to be paid'
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:34 +0000
  Many young people working free as interns may legally be entitled to pay, a report says.
  

• Tax credit repayments 'to rocket'
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:09 +0000
  Many more people will have to pay back some of the money paid to them as tax credits because of Budget changes, experts say.
  

• Sale of EDF's UK networks agreed
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:21:50 +0000
  A consortium headed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing has agreed a deal to buy the UK networks of French power group EDF for £5.8bn ($9.1bn).
  

• Northwest agrees to pay $38m fine
  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:45:44 +0000
  Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says.
  

Citywire News

• Sterling climbs on US woes but are we really faring better?
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
  The pound has leapt to a five-month high against the dollar as investors compare the UK favourably with the US. Are these hopes valid?  
  

• Mortgages: a tracker could save you money
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
  If economists' forecasts are right and the Base Rate is really set to remain at 0.5% until the end of 2013, then trackers look a much better bet than fixed rate mortgages.
  

• Lorna Bourke: beware car insurance rip-offs
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
  How I found myself paying over the odds for motor insurance I took out for my daughter.
  

• Fund of the Week: MG Optimal Income
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:00 +0100
  The MG Optimal Income fund run by Richard Woolnough is one of our favourite investments. Head of research Jonathan Miller explains why.
  

BBC News

• South Asia floods kill hundreds
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:56:44 +0000
  Floods caused by heavy monsoon rain kill more than 400 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, washing away whole villages, roads and bridges.
  

• Wedding belle
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:09:06 +0000
  Why Chelsea Clinton continues to fascinate
  

• Australia awaits bushfire verdict
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:55 +0000
  A royal commission report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster, which left 173 people dead in 2009, is to be made public.
  

• Ash cloud cost firm £45,000 a day
  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:35 +0000
  The grounding of flights because of volcanic ash cost an airports operator £45,000 each day air services were disrupted.