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Today’s UK Stock News

Friday, December 9, 2011 10:07 No Comments

The markets seem unsure how to take the latest developments. The FTSE 100 opened 35 points lower, but recovered slightly to 5461.77, falling 22 points.
Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland all lost around 2% initially but recovered some ground since. But they are likely to continue after yesterday showed stress tests, volatile [...]

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PMI Drop Indicating Further Slowdown

Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:38 No Comments

In November, China’s manufacturing sector shrank for the first time in nearly three years. According to figures by China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, it is revealed that the purchasing manager index, which is a main gauge of manufacturing activity, tumbling from 50.4 to 49 in October..
According to the analysts, it is indicated that it [...]

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Belgium Credit Rating Also got Downgraded

Saturday, November 26, 2011 5:00 No Comments

Belgium has downgraded its credit rating by rating agency Standard & Poor’s had. The country could downgrade it more expensive to borrow for Belgium in the future. Belgium-rating was cut one notch to AA from AA + by S & P expressed concern about the funding and market pressures.
The move comes as the [...]

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Italy Forced to Pay Record Rates

Saturday, November 26, 2011 4:58 No Comments

The interest rate for new debt due in six months should be paid back 6.504%, compared with 3.535% in the last comparable sale on 26 October. The price for two-year bond was 7.814%, up from 4.628% last time.
The Bank of Italy said that the demand was high for the bonds, the demand for debt [...]

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UK Retail Failures Forecast to Spike at Christmas

Monday, November 14, 2011 12:01 No Comments

Insolvencies and corporate failures among the UK retailers is expected to increase to the level at the end of 2008, when financial crisis start to break down the economy of the nation, by the time of Christmas this year.
According to the restructuring advisers and accountants, spike in UK retail failure will be expected due to [...]

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Energy Links with Russian Strengthen

Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:11 No Comments

China and Russia have been looking to actively push forward cooperation on oil and gas. However, the process has been long subject to delay due to disagreements in pricing.
Recondly, the two countries made giant strides in energy cooperation via first agreeing a price for Russian crude oil exported through a cross border pipeline and then [...]

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Europe Should Share the Burden of Debt

Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:36 No Comments

Today’s world is tgreatened by the repeat of the 2008 economic crisis. The financial meltdown, which is expected to be of more cataclysmic scale, will take place in the European area instead of in the US. And this time, the financial mechanism involved will not be the highly complex structured financial products, but the government [...]

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