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Citywire Investment News

• The Citywire Debate: should we blame fund managers for the financial crisis?
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:25 GMT
  City minister and former Gartmore chairman Lord Myners thinks we should. Charlie Parker says no, Tony Bonsignore says yes.
  

• Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:15 GMT
  Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
  

• Investment Line: Greek bonds rally but Euro equities face long debt struggle
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:25 GMT
  Economists warn that austerity measures in the PIIGS will result in a protracted period of low growth
  

• Markets did not fail - people did, Lord Myners tell City
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:59:34 GMT
  Financial markets must be able to punish just as easily as they can reward, Lord Myners said last night, in another attack on greed in the City.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• Nineteen applicants for every job, employment agency reports
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
  There were 1% more vacancies in February than in January but the number of people looking for work climbed 50%.
  

• Labour peer Lord Paul promises to give up non-dom status
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:08 GMT
  Labour party donor Lord Paul has said he will give up his non-dom status in the wake of the Lord Ashcroft scandal.
  

• The blue chips where you should dump bonds for equity
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
  The large cap stocks which offer higher yields than their equivalent ten year corporate bonds.
  

• More quantitative easing may not work, BoE rate-setter warns
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:47:18 GMT
  Kate Barker?s comments underline growing split within Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
  

FT.com - Financial Markets News

• Queensland picks banks for A$7bn rail IPO
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:43:38 GMT
  The Queensland state government has appointed five banks to run a A$7bn share float of Queensland Rail?s coal and freight arm, expected to be Australia?s biggest listing this year
  

• Disappointing data weigh on sterling
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
  Sterling lost ground on Tuesday as disappointing economic data and renewed concern over the UK?s banking sector and fiscal health weighed on the pound
  

• Sugar suffers as India raises output estimate
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:23:11 GMT
  Sugar prices endure another pounding after estimates for India?s production this season were revised higher
  

• Equities rally on hold as caution sets in
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:51:09 GMT
  Global Markets Overview: It is a year ago that stocks began to bounce from their cyclical nadir ? a closing low of 673 for the SP 500 ? and it looks like the anniversary has left Mr Rally searching for direction.
  

BBC News

• Paper review
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:50:22 GMT
  Kit criticisms after soldiers' inquests widely reported
  

• Five killed in Pakistan attack
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:37:09 GMT
  Unidentified gunmen attack the office of a Western aid agency, killing up to five people, police say.
  

• Sleeping killers
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:18:38 GMT
  Why obesity is leading drivers to sleep at the wheel
  

• US attacks East Jerusalem plans
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:27:50 GMT
  The US vice-president condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, as he prepares to visit the West Bank.
  

BBC Business News

• BA strike action talks to resume
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:04:31 GMT
  Talks aimed averting strike action by BA cabin crew are due to resume later, after a deadline was extended.
  

• Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:44 GMT
  Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows.
  

• Royal junk mail
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT
  Why postal reforms are good news for direct mailers
  

• Dotcom Crash
  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:19 GMT
  10 years on from when the Nasdaq bubble burst
  

FT.com - Equities

• Investors warn EU on private equity rules
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:51:41 +0000
  Europe risks building a protectionist wall between itself and the global private equity industry if plans for a sweeping overhaul of regulation in the sector go ahead, some of the world's biggest institutional investors have warned
  

• Techs reflect on decade since dotcom boom
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:37:10 +0000
  In January 2000, 17 dotcom companies paid more than $2m each to advertise during the Super Bowl, the season-ending national championship game for American footbal
  

• Steel groups lifted by improving outlook
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:08:41 +0000
  Rautaruukki Oyj climbed after Finland's biggest producer of steel benefited from a broker upgrade on the back of improving sentiment towards the industry
  

• Imperial Tobacco hit by earnings worry
  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:54:19 +0000
  London equity markets erased early gains on Tuesday as weaker-than-expected results held the mining sector at bay, while banks also fell back as market sentiment soured
  

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