Last updated on Tue 17th Aug 2010
 AFP | Dubai firm snaps up food chain Carluccio's AFP LONDON — Dubai-based retail giant Landmark Group has agreed to buy British restaurant chain Carluccio's for 90.3 million pounds, the companies said on ... |
 RT | Russia's Rosnano may buy British Plastic Logic The Voice of Russia One the of the leading British companies, the Plastic Logic, which is involved in a sphere of high technologies, is now holding talks with Russian state ... Rosnano may buy British Plastic Logic (LON:PLA) controlling |
Canada Pension Agrees to Buy Intoll for $3 Billion Bloomberg Canada Pension has also been increasing its private equity investments and last month bid about $4.5 billion to buy British auto-parts firm Tomkins Plc with ... |
Deutsche Bahn cleared by EU to buy Arriva Reuters UK UL approval to buy British bus operator Arriva (ARI.L) on Wednesday on condition that Deutsche Bahn sell Arriva's German business. ... |
Consumers urged to check cheese BBC News The BCB says a survey by Which? found more than half of consumers want to buy British. The group says if a product is not specifically labelled as having ... |
 The Guardian | Alexei Sayle: My family values The Guardian I was allowed to buy British comics, but not American ones. But it wasn't like being Amish. Molly, my mother, is 95 this year. We are friends. ... |
 Moneycontrol.com | MasterCard to buy DataCash for $520 m Moneycontrol.com MasterCard Inc said it agreed to buy British payment service provider DataCash Group Plc for about 333 million pounds (USD 520 million) in cash to expand ... |
Help Britain by buying British, says Poole campaigner Bournemouth Echo BUY British – that's the message of a Poole lecturer launching an ambitious campaign to boost the economy. Mike Plummer, who has just ... |
 Daily Mail | The Cheddar cheese that's come from Sydney instead of Somerset Daily Mail He said shoppers want honest labelling, with 76 per cent saying it is important to know the country of origin and 51 per cent preferring to buy British. ... Cheddar-loving Britons are being misled about the origins of their favourite ... |
Venezuelan gov't announces plan to buy British-owned farms China Post CARACAS -- Venezuela will buy a group of large farms and thousands of cattle from a British company, President Hugo Chavez said late on Friday, ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Rise in interest rates would be a 'disaster' for UK economy, warns Peter ... Telegraph.co.uk ... interest rates would be "disastrous" for the UK economy and would lead to a wave of repossession as many people simply gave up paying their mortgages. ... Second Recession Is a Risk Because of UK Spending Cuts, Hargreaves Says Peter Hargreaves: 'A double dip will happen' |
UK: DSG Gets Boost From World Cup, Remains Confident In Economy Namnews CEO John Browett said he remained cautious about the economic outlook, but did not expect the UK economy to worsen. He added, “This is an encouraging start ... |
UK's Services Companies Reduce Investment Plans as Sales Fall, CBI Says Bloomberg Growth in services, which account for about three quarters of the UK economy, was revised down to 0.7 percent in the second quarter from a previous estimate ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | UK House Prices Decline Most in Six Months, Nationwide Says Bloomberg While the UK economy grew at the fastest pace since 2001 in the second quarter, there are signs the recovery is moderating. Manufacturing grew at the ... Nationwide survey shows house price decline |
Economic insights: Markets brittle but not broken. UK economy trundling while ... Proactive Investors UK The FOMC stayed in centre stage, culminating in Chairman Bernanke's address to the annual forum at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. As ever, the burning issue is ... |
Investors' QE concern rises Financial Times ... has increased the possibility of a relaunch of quantitative easing, the buying of government bonds to stimulate the ailing UK economy. ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Recovery in UK manufacturing loses steam Telegraph.co.uk The UK economy grew by 1.2pc in the second quarter of the year, much more strongly than expected, but that strength is not expected to be repeated in the ... Europe, China Growth Slow; UK's Tough Slog Manufacturing slump sends hopes of recovery spinning Cable Tumbles, Euro Rallies as High Beta FX Go Separate Ways |
 MSN Money UK | UK Stocks -- Factors to watch on Sept 2 Reuters Domestically, British investors will watch Nationwide house price data for August released at 0600 GMT for more of a steer on the state of the UK economy. ... Market Comment (31st Aug 2010, 11:30) |
 Telegraph.co.uk | U.K. Economy to Slow, Business Group Says Wall Street Journal Data from the Office for National Statistics on Friday showed that the UK economy grew at its fastest pace in nine years in the second quarter, ... British Chamber of Commerce predicts faster UK economic growth BCC made its forecast for faster economic growth in the UK British Chamber of Commerce upbeat on UK economy |
Pound Weakens as Report Says UK House Prices Decline Most in Six Months Bloomberg While the UK economy grew in the second quarter at the fastest pace since 2001, there are signs the recovery is moderating. Manufacturing grew at the ... |
TXU Bonds Tumble as Natural Gas Drop Imperils Biggest LBO: Credit Markets Bloomberg Natural gas for October delivery rose 3.8 cents, or 1 percent, to $3.80 per million British thermal units at 12:01 pm on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ... |
Report From Europe: Markets Treading Water After a Big Up Day Seeking Alpha (blog) Greece, Italy, Japan and Portugal are the advanced economies hovering closest to unsustainable levels of government debt, International Monetary Fund staff ... |
Blair Backs Cameron Plan, Slams `Strange' Brown for Failings Bloomberg Blair praised Brown's efforts to stave off the 2008 banking collapse, then criticized him for driving up government debt. “I had a feeling that my going and ... |
Pound Falls, Gilts Rise as Central Bank Report Shows Increase in Mortgages Bloomberg Investment by British businesses fell 1.6 percent in the second quarter, the Office for National Statistics said last week, while Bank of England policy ... |
Another Crack In The U.K.'s Facade Wall Street Journal (blog) Bill Gross, co-founder of bond-fund behemoth Pimco, famously opined that UK government debt was “resting on a bed of nitroglycerin” back in January. Ouch. ... |
 The Guardian | Euro Falls Back as S&P Cuts Ireland's Credit Rating, British Pound Maintains ... Daily FX The British Pound halted the three-day decline and pushed to a high of 1.5461 during the European trade, but the lack of momentum to push back above the ... S&P downgrades Ireland's rating |
UK Good, Germany Better TheStreet.com (subscription) The new government led by David Cameron is putting an emphasis on reducing the country's government debt and is cutting government spending. ... |
 CBC.ca | China cuts US debt holdings CBC.ca China reduced its holdings of US government debt in June for the second straight month, the US Treasury Department said Monday. The country's holdings of ... |
Gilt rally pauses, yields rise from record lows Reuters Worries over the health of the global recovery -- a key driver behind the past month's rally across government debt markets -- eased on Thursday after US ... |
Top British Companies That Trade On the New York Stock Exchange Benzinga Last year, government debt was at 56.8% of GDP. 10. According to the UK government, the country was officially in a recession for the first time since 1991, ... |
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