Thursday Newspaper round up
City regulators raised concerns with Barclays’s board in February about a breakdown of trust with the bank over incidents including a £7.5bn Cayman Islands scheme known as Protium to transfer toxic assets off its...
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Wednesday Newspaper round up.
Charles Goodhart has called on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to stop its quantitative easing programme because it is damaging the economy. Professor Goodhart, of the London School of Economics and...
Tuesday Newspaper round up.
GlaxoSmithKline paid for American psychiatrists to enjoy luxury weekends in Hawaii as it illegally sought to persuade them to prescribe an anti-depressant drug for children, US authorities alleged, as they handed the UK drugs...
Monday Newspaper round up.
Worries about world food prices are increasing, stoked by a 10 per cent rise in US corn and wheat prices in just a week. The jump was driven by the current spell of hot,...
The Smallcap Oil & Gas Round Up
Aminex : AEX Said yesterday that test work on its Ntorya-1 well in Tanzania’s Ruvuma Basin, had demonstrated “strong commercial potential” re the gas discovery. During testing, the East Africa focused company perforated the upper 3.5 metres...
Friday Newspaper round up.
Dividing News Corporation into two companies will not result in a fresh bid for BSkyB because the company has “moved on”, Rupert Murdoch said yesterday. The News Corp chairman and chief executive said that...
Thursday Newspaper round up
Pleas from Spain and Italy for urgent financial aid from the Eurozone to bring down borrowing costs were dismissed by Angela Merkel as divisions hardened on the eve of a critical summit. Germany’s Chancellor...
Wednesday Newspaper round up.
BP’s safety record is under the spotlight again after a worker was killed and two were injured in an explosion at a gas pipeline facility in Colorado. The oil giant said that it would...
