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Edward Lander
| 00:01 | 24 Jul 2008
Reduce corporation tax and increase certainty or risk losing business overseas, says ABI.
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Nicholas Paler
| 16:52 | 23 Jul 2008
UK markets were buoyed by bid rumours prior to close, after talk of a potential move for HBOS from a Spanish bank and confirmation from mid cap firm Moneysupermarket.com that its leading shareholder had rejected an approach.
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Nicholas Paler
| 15:25 | 23 Jul 2008
Shares in comparison website Moneysupermarket.com soared up by over a third mid-afternoon after the company confirmed its leading shareholder, Simon Nixon, had rejected an approach from a potential bidder.
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Edward Lander
| 15:17 | 23 Jul 2008
Analyst favours life offices with good new business potential and lower equity volumes as share values in the sector reach all time lows.
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David Campbell
| 13:05 | 23 Jul 2008
Fidelity has changed the name of its Fidelity Managed International portfolio to better reflect the investment process of manager, Citywire A-rated Brenda Reed.
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James Phillipps
| 12:51 | 23 Jul 2008
Former Schroders co-head of structured products Richard Lloyd has joined Insight Investments.
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Dylan Lobo
| 12:31 | 23 Jul 2008
Brown Shipley has poached Gordon Campbell from Deutsche Tilney for its new Birmingham office, the sixth private client manager it has recruited from its rival.
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Chris Marshall
| 12:27 | 23 Jul 2008
Chief executive Andrew Witty warned of the ‘immense challenges’ that the pharma industry would face over the next few years.
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Matthew Goodburn
| 12:23 | 23 Jul 2008
New Star new recruit Charles Deptford has taken the reins of the underperforming New Star Equity Income fund from Stephen Whittaker.
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Chris Marshall
| 11:47 | 23 Jul 2008
The CBI’s survey of manufacturers adds to the bleak picture facing firms and their customers, with manufacturers expecting demand to slow.
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Matthew Goodburn
| 11:38 | 23 Jul 2008
The minutes of the monetary policy committee (MPC) reveal that the Bank of England was split three ways before deciding to hold interest rates at 5% for July.
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Nicholas Paler
| 11:20 | 23 Jul 2008
HBOS jumped back above its rights issue price early on as positive sentiment on Wall Street helped British banks stage another rally.
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By
Tim Cooper
| 00:01 | 23 Jul 2008
Not all of the advisers on our panel give the green light to this week’s ethical offerings. Inexperienced management and high charges all play their part in giving one fund the thumbs down.
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By
Charlie Parker
| 12:27 | 21 Jul 2008
Writing the New Frontiers investment blog can sometimes feels like shooting fish in a barrel. This is one of those times.
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David Campbell
| 12:10 | 18 Jul 2008
Currently offering quite good value and historically less volatile than equities means investors are flocking to bonds - but are they actually as cautious a play as people think?
By
Sara Smith
| 13:16 | 17 Jul 2008
In the first of an occasional series we hand the Citywire Blogs over to Jim Leaviss, head of retail fixed income at M&G, as he gets inside the head of BoE governor Mervyn King.
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David Campbell
| 16:55 | 15 Jul 2008
The haste with which Alliance & Leicester has been sold off to Banco Santander suggests the bank was in worse condition than previously thought. How many more banks are going to disappear during the credit crunch?
By
Gavin Lumsden
| 16:20 | 14 Jul 2008
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