24 May 2012
Quote of the day: 'It will put up the cost of people's insurance, put up the cost of people's pensions, it will cost many, many jobs. It will make Europe less competitive and I will fight it all the way.'
of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King explained that the growth forecast has been cut from 1.2% for the year ...
out the possibility of more quantitative easing, despite the bank having opted against another round ...
itself apart , and saying that Britain would not be unscathed by any financial fallout from the crisis ...
The governor of the Bank of England says he was not to blame for the UK's financial crisis....this morning to Radio 4 listeners, Merv said he did not accept blame for the financial crisis, that he did ...
has been built in which banks were to important to fail. That s hardly a mea culpa, but certainly ...
argument however, centred on his view that banks need to keep profits in a reserve pot to insulate ...
Australia's fourth-largest bank to restructure its loss-making UK operation with a focus on retail...to basics strategy of scaling down its business services operations, closing 29 of its 73 Financial ...
The announcement comes after the banks owner, National Australia Bank, reported a 15.6% fall in profits to 1.32bn in the first half compared with the previous year. The bank s British adventure has ...
Quote of the day: 'Eventually, the quartet decides that dinners will be even more fun, and the bank
Stat of the day: £2.3bn. The amount lost to the UK economy each bank holiday. MT reckons that it...The Centre for Economics and Business Research has crunched the numbers to declare bank holidays a ...
of the Diamond Jubilee too.
There will be nine bank holidays in the UK this year, with one more thrown in over ...
more heavily on the services industry than other nations, it explains, which is typically the sector ...
services sector grew a minute 0.2% in January....It s one of the key pieces of data that contributes to GDP figures: the UK service sector accounts ...
. The service sector is up just 0.2% in the first month of 2012 from December 2011.
Still, compared ...
is only a smidgeon higher than January's figure at 0.3%), business services and finance have had ...
UK banks urgently need more capital, says new risk watchdog - meanwhile the Emerald Isle is back...It s three years now since the bottom fell out of the global financial markets, but, according to the Bank of England s Financial Policy Committee, British banks still aren t holding enough capital ...
plan had seemed to be bearing fruit earlier in the year. Irish Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan ...
.' Designer Karen Millen, who lost some £500m in the Icelandic banking bust of 2008, is determined to get her
British Business Bank , designed to lend more to SMEs, was leaked to yesterday, we knew it would be a ...
to the idea of the Government getting more involved in the bank. Most government schemes for helping business ...
made last year between the Government and banks, which has so far had mixed results (to put it politely ...