FT: UK warned of long-term risk to public finances
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
UK warned of long-term risk to public finances
By Tony Barber in Brussels
FINANCIAL TIMES
Published: October 15 2009 12:31
The public finances of the UK, Spain and 10 other European Union
countries are at long-term high risk, because of projected increases
in welfare expenditure and the impact of the world f ...
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Credit Card for On-line Shopping?
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:18:19 +0100
Hi all
I do not currently have a credit card, but understand that some include
insurance against fraudulent loss when shopping on-line.
Whilst I don't do much of this, I would like a safe means of payment both
for on-line transactions and when telephone ordering.
Although it pains me to do it, I have occasion ...
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tax return: 'proceeeds of sale' of unit trust with reinvested
dividends
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
I'm sure there is a standard answer to this but can anyone advise me
please? it's a question of what to use for the sale price of an
accumulation unit trust for CGT purposes.
I am completeing my tax return and I am including the capital gain
made when I sold an "accumulation" unit trust (UKindex from Legal an ...
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14/10/2009 - The current market sentiment
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:18:22 -0700 (PDT)
The better than expected Intel earning results of the third quarter
could increase the pressure on the greenback driving the investors'
risk appetite up. These data have released after the closing of Wall
Street and Dow future is trading up currently at 9876.
As we have mentioned in our earlier report, the gold is ...
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FT: Third of staff at RBS Coutts Singapore quit over bonuses
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
Third of staff at RBS Coutts Singapore quit
By Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong
Financial Times
Published: October 12 2009 23:21
RBS Coutts, the international arm of the UK private bank, is
scrambling to rebuild its flagship Singapore office after the mass
resignation of one-third of its staff in the city-state.
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Retaining talent to scale great heights
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:12:38 +0100
To analyze the health of a company, a business researcher must undertake
an in depth analysis into the way the firm is being managed. Often the
financial results may not reveal the true state of affairs in a
company. Investment experts opine that when investing in the shares of
a particular company, it is bett ...
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Islamic Bank of Britain fixed term investments?
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:01:32 +0100
Hi.
www.islamic-bank.com
This appears to offer a good rate for a 2 year bond, although a quick look
at the literature shows that the bank is set up means that this is not
technically described as being paid as interest.
Is there a catch with this product (it does refer to publishing a monthly
target pro ...
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SIPP - can they include land?
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:15:34 +0100
I've not got a pension scheme yet (cue the gasps and tutting).
I'm looking at buying some land and wondered if this could be incorporated
into a SIPP scheme?
I would need to raise a mortgage to buy the land and so wonder what effect
if any this would have on the SIPP...
Does anyone know the answers to these ...
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Credit card withdrawals
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:27:11 +0100
What is the present situation for someone who has a current but unused
credit card with, say, a 5000ukp limit and who wants to draw that whole
amount out as cash for short to medium term use? I believe it used to
be that you could only draw out something like 100 pounds a day or
somesuch (at an exhorbitant rat ...
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Hire or fire non-jobs? Labour or Tories?
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:30:58 -0700 (PDT)
Gordon Brown seems to think hiring a civil servant to do a non-
essential job for the economy to improve employment statistics is a
good thing.
Far from it.
The precise reason why the UK's economy is in such dire straits and
uncompetitive with other economies is because of:
1) Bureaucratic red tape. Health ...
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