| Briefs |
08.05.2010 |
952 |
see article |
| Briefs |
06.03.2010 |
943 |
see article |
| Briefs |
13.12.2009 |
932 |
see article |
| KPMG, appointed administrators to collapsed online wedding-list supplier Wrapit last week, is investigating whether the business was trading insolvently prior to its failure. |
10.08.2008 |
863 |
see article |
| Ryanair is threatening to cancel tickets bought via third-party websites. |
09.08.2008 |
863 |
see article |
| Outgoing Drax chairman Gordon Horsfield and his children stand to earn nearly £7m over the next four years from their 0.7% stake as the company returns surplus cash to investors. |
16.03.2008 |
842 |
see article |
| The government may give approval as early as this week for up to eight new nuclear power stations to be built. |
06.01.2008 |
832 |
see article |
| Gold rose to US$739 an ounce in London, its highest level since 1980. |
22.09.2007 |
819 |
see article |
| Royal Dutch Shell is making its biggest investment in US oil refinery capacity for 30 years, spending US$7bn to double the size of its Texas refinery. |
22.09.2007 |
819 |
see article |
| Royal Bank of Scotland analysts have cut their growth forecast for the eurozone as a result the strong euro and suggest the ECB would cut rates by 0.5 percentage points next year. |
22.09.2007 |
819 |
see article |
| Merrill Lynch market strategist Khuram Chaudhry believes that global markets have little chance of immediate recovery because of fears about a US recession. |
09.09.2007 |
817 |
see article |
| Group 4 Securicor (now G4S) is seeking government backing for a 1,000-strong paramilitary squad made up of former Ghurkhas to handle the aftermath of terrorist attacks and disasters, a role that is usually carried out by the army. |
02.09.2007 |
816 |
see article |
| TfL in pursuit of stricken Tube contractor Metronet |
25.08.2007 |
815 |
see article |
| Trade unions welcomed the possible move by Transport for London to take over Metronet's tube maintenance contracts. |
25.08.2007 |
815 |
see article |
| Pledge by Tube firms to banks |
24.06.2007 |
806 |
see article |
| Unibet, a pan-Europe online gamming company, has been banned from sponsoring a team in the Tour de France because of a French law outlawing advertising by foreign lotteries. |
24.06.2007 |
806 |
see article |
| Goldman Sachs has seen appointed to raise £30m from a float of optical scanner maker Optus. |
15.01.2006 |
732 |
see article |
| British pig breeders are set to benefit from a new export deal with China. |
25.09.2005 |
718 |
see article |
| The number of central government civil servants fell a modest 5,000 in the final quarter of last year, according to official statistics. |
29.05.2005 |
701 |
see article |
| The Barracuda pubs group has been put up for sale at £100m by owner PPM Ventures. |
15.05.2005 |
699 |
see article |
| Business features |
14.11.2004 |
675 |
see article |
| Livingstone seeks to run local trains |
20.03.2004 |
641 |
see article |
| Hitches delay Tube chief |
22.02.2003 |
586 |
see article |
| A report by MEP's this week will condemn successive governments for their failure to regulate the Lloyd's of London insurance market and ignoring a crucial EC directive on the subject for nine years. |
29.09.2002 |
566 |
see article |
| Treasury backs DLR extension |
25.08.2002 |
561 |
see article |