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February 8, 2010
World Diary
...secretary, and Yoshimi Inaba, chief executive of Toyota North America, are due to testify.UK parliament in recessBoth houses of the UK parliament break for half-term recess, returning on February 22.Freud self-portrait for saleA self... By Charles Morris
May 22, 2009
UK expense abuse and apathy will benefit fringe parties
...were unlikely to vote for the European parliament, or as they bluntly put it. "Just...goes to the polls to elect the European Parliament. Many people in England will vote for...place result behind the eurosceptic UK Independence party. Defeat on such...winning its first seats in the European parliament, with the BNP claiming a target of... By Alex Barker in London
11:28pm
Rock to end 100% savings guarantee
...By comparison, savers with accounts elsewhere have only the first £50,000 ($79,000) insured by the government.UK Financial Investments, which manages the government’s stakes in banks, has been reviewing Northern Rock’s additional...Moneysupermarket.com, the comparison site.“And while safety is still a primary concern for customers, this is not at the expense of rates.”Northern Rock has also been given greater freedom to compete for new retail deposits since certain restrictions... By Sharlene Goff, Retail Banking Correspondent
2:00am
Rock to end 100% savings guarantee
...customers' deposits.By comparison, savers with accounts elsewhere have only the first £50,000 insured by the government.UK Financial Investments, which manages the government's stakes in banks, has been reviewing Northern Rock's additional...Moneysupermarket.com, the comparison site."And while safety is still a primary concern for customers, this is not at the expense of rates."Northern Rock has also been given greater freedom to compete for new retail deposits since certain restrictions... By Sharlene Goff, Retail Banking Correspondent
May 25, 2009
Brown to force MEPs to reveal expenses
Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, will today seek to...forcing Labour members of the European parliament to publish future expense claims. The move, setting a new precedent...ahead of June 4 elections, puts the UK at the forefront of commitments to...pledged reforms de-signed to stop the UK parliament being the "poodle" of the executive...the revelations about domestic MPs' expense claims. "There are around 200 parties... By Jean Eaglesham in London
February 8, 2010
Traders fearful as contagion worries linger
...by a triple whammy: the higher dollar hurt buck-denominated resources; worries were heightened about the effect a euro implosion would have on global growth; and talk swirled that there was a rush out of dollar carry trades, where the greenback is used... By Jamie Chisholm, Global Markets Commentator
February 8, 2010
Keycorp’s Hancock to oversee AIG risk
...investors.In spite of that, Mr Hancock’s lieutenants managed to keep JPMorgan away from the worst of the credit derivatives implosion – a move that gave the bank a valuable advantage over its rivals during the crisis. At AIG, Mr Hancock will have to focus... By Francesco Guerrera in New York
June 24, 2009
UK parliament ushers in new Tory Speaker
The British parliament yesterday swore in an avowed reformer as its Speaker, hoping to draw a line under a scandal over MPs' exp-enses that...government is driving many of the reforms taking place this summer; yesterday it announced a new criminal offence for false expense claims. Although Mr Bercow did not break the parliamentary expenses rules, he changed the designation of his London... By Jim Pickard in London
February 9, 2010
Sterling hits eight-month dollar low
...polls over the weekend showed that the UK general election, which must be held by May, would result in a hung parliament.They said that if no UK party won an outright majority, this...potential positives for sterling after the UK election, a hung parliament would be viewed by the market as the... By Peter Garnham
April 24, 2009
The shadow banking world's implosion is the real culprit
...not. For if Citi data are correct, the real source of the current credit crunch is not a collapse in bank loans, but the implosion of the shadow banking world. And that in turn provokes a wider question: namely whether there is anything that policymakers...world where credit will remain a highly rationed commodity for a long time to come. Is there any answer? This week the UK government made one attempt to break the impasse by unveiling a scheme to provide state guarantees for some mortgagebacked... By Gillian Tett