'Outrage' as BAE Systems probes end after £280m deal BBC News | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | BAE Chairman Dick Olver: "We need to be a transparent, modern, clean company" | Campaigners have attacked a deal struck by UK defence contractor BAE Systems to end inquiries into its affairs. | The firm is to admit two crimi...
Fund firms fight shy of gilts on volatility fears The Guardian By Claire Milhench LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Fixed income managers are fighting shy of UK government bonds, fearful of volatility ahead of a general election and the market's capacity to fill the hole left by the Bank of England's exit from quantitative easing. Managers like Threadneedle, Schroders ...
BP's Sun King Lord Browne reveals his darker side The Guardian | Former oil chief admits to obsession and loneliness during his 12-year reign at BP | Lord Browne has published his memoirs, charting his 41-year career with BP. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/EPA | Lord Browne has admitted he stayed at too long because ...
At last, the truth about a dirty deal The Daily Mail | Gordon Brown has denied for the past 16 years that he agreed a deal with Tony Blair about succeeding him as Prime Minister. | Now he admits it in a folksy, let-it-all-hang-out TV interview which he hopes will help him win the next General Election....
Trust chairman rules out excessive BBC pay deals The Guardian | Sir Michael Lyons says trust is reasserting grip on BBC finances, and hits out at political and Murdoch interference | Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust. Photograph: David Levene | The chairman of the Trust has ruled out "excessive salar...
The Tories have the answers, but not the strength to deliver The Guardian | The further right you go in British politics the darker it gets. This is a world of climate change deniers, Euroscepticism, rabid libertarians who regard taxation as the coercive infringement of property rights and moralists who think homosexuality...
The Tories have the answers, but not the strength to deliver The Observer | The further right you go in British politics the darker it gets. This is a world of climate change deniers, Euroscepticism, rabid libertarians who regard taxation as the coercive infringement of property rights and moralists who think homosexuality...
Sound familiar? The BAE scandal, and the parallels with the Iraq war The Independent | Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general, sought yesterday to defend a deal struck between prosecutors and BAE Systems in the face of anger by those who wanted the defence giant to be held to account in court. | The settlement with the Serious F...
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Blair faces 'judgement day' at Britain's Iraq War inquiry The Siasat Daily | London, January 27: This Friday, former British prime minister Tony Blair will be given yet another chance to stop the traffic. | However, the extensive security measures laid on...
HSBC moves chief back Hong Kong Standard HSBC Holdings (0005) relocated its chief executive from London back to Hong Kong yesterday as senior bankers around the world flocked to Davos, Switzerland for their annual forum. ...
'Outrage' as BAE Systems probes end after £280m deal BBC News | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | BAE Chairman Dick Olver: "We need to be a transparent, modern, clean company" | Campaigners have attacked a deal struck by UK defence contractor BAE Systems to end inquiries ...
Tory treasurer Michael Spencer defends £45m sale of Icap shares before price slump The Times | Michael Spencer, the Conservative Party treasurer and one of the City's richest men, who is accused of offloading £45 million of shares in his Icap interdealer broker before the share price collapsed, has strongly defended his behaviour to The Time...
Recruiter Spotlight: Stacie Blair shares her insight The Examiner | The next focus of my ongoing interview series with local Bay Area & Silicon Valley recruiters is Stacie Blair, Founder of The Pacific Firm, a retained search firm specializing in technology, retail, consumer products and financial services.&nbs...
Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards The Independent | Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson were today nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards, British theatre's top accolades. | Anderson and Weisz are contesting the best actress category for their turns in A Doll's House and A Streetcar Named Desire respectively, and are up against Imelda Staunton (Entertaining ...
Gold extends gains, up to Rs 16,520 The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Gold prices moved up Rs 80 to Rs 16,520 per ten grams in the bullion market on seasonal buying amid a positive global trend. | Standard gold and ornaments advanced further by Rs 80 each to Rs 16,520 and Rs 16,370 per ten grams, respectively. The precious metal had gained Rs 50 in the last session. | Meanwhile, sovereign remained steady a...
