The Guardian:
Share issue will cost the taxpayer another £5.8bnLloyds Banking Group is this week expected to announce the terms of its record-breaking £13.5bn cash call on investors. The share issue will require the taxpayer to pump an ext (Read More)
The Guardian:
Once he joins, Marc Bolland's to-do list will have a familiar theme – find trendier clothes and younger customersYou would think that the soundtrack to the Sir Stuart Rose years at Marks & Spencer would be something by Frank (Read More)
The Guardian:
If the new chief executive is unsure which way to take the brand beloved of Middle England, he has only to ask Mrs Johnston of Chipping CampdenA few years ago, I went shopping with a woman called Annette Johnston. For most of (Read More)
The Guardian:
In putting fans and tradition before profit, the Bundesliga upholds values the Premier League has lostRobert Enke had been capped eight times at the time of his death and had not quite cemented his position as Germany's No1 g (Read More)
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When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of th (Read More)
The Independent - Money RSS Feed:
In these days of exceptionally low interest rates, the shares of Printing. com must look enticingly attractive to any income-seeking investor. (Read More)
The Guardian:
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companiesIn a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the p (Read More)
The Guardian:
Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick CollinsonIt invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its ownGoldIt has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs. B (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The US chocolate company Hershey is considering an audacious go-it-alone attempt to buy the besieged Cadbury confectionery empire through a takeover offer of at least $17bn (£10.2bn) to edge out Kraft's £9.8bn hostile bid.Sou (Read More)
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Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several (Read More)
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Peter Thornton was ousted from the family business – Thorntons chocolates – by his brothers and cousin. He talks about the bitter rivalries that ended his careerPeter Thornton always knew he would inherit the family chocolate (Read More)
stocks and things:
The bad news this week was that we had a four-day streak of poor action. We held about even on Tuesday, but then sold off the rest of the week. The good news is that it is exactly the sort of consolidation we need. We were a (Read More)
Markets RSS:
Shares in Staffline soared by nearly 20 per cent yesterday after the
recruitment group said that it expected full-year results to be better than
expected. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investors in Thomas Cook and Tui Travel must wish they could get away from it all. The two travel companies were the biggest fallers in the leading index following downgrades on both companies from Morgan Stanley. In particul (Read More)
The Guardian:
Shares in National Express have accelerated by nearly 5% on news that the Cosmen family has increased its stake in the bus and rail operator.According to an official statement Jorge Cosmen has bought another 501,823 shares at (Read More)
Money RSS Feed:
Of all the companies whose shares have fared badly in the past couple of years, National Grid is among the most perplexing. It has many of the qualities investors would be expected to cherish in times of trouble. Yet the Grid (Read More)
Times Online:
The appetite for flotations on the London Stock Exchange is ready to spring back to life with a clutch of companies worth a combined $10 billion ($£6 billion) planning to list their shares. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investment bank under fire again as investors protest at record bonuses of $717,000 eachGoldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders.Some of the US inv (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Williams: 'I have no reason to stop at this time in my life'• New shareholder Wolff a 'very shrewd businessman'Frank Williams has sold a minority stake in his multiple championship-winning Formula One team for the first tim (Read More)