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Citywire News
- Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:02:54 Z
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks.
- Overnight Markets: Wall Street falls amid Greek debt talks
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:00:00 Z
Stocks declined as Greece failed to respond to bailout terms from the European Union and International Monetary Fund missing another deadline.
- Tuesday Papers: Greece to face curbs on new bailout
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:57:00 Z
And BAE considers Typhoon price cut to stay in battle for Indian order.
- FTSE drifts as Greek debt talks muddle on
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:27:52 Z
Britain?s benchmark index slips as Greek premier Lucas Papademos fails to win backing from other party leaders for more spending cuts.
- ?Toxic? pension system deprives retirees of 30% of income
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:55:30 Z
Retirees are missing out on £1 billion of income each year after falling foul of an opaque and unfair annuity market.
BBC Business News
- Macquarie falls on profit warning
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:31:34 GMT
Macquarie Group, the largest investment bank in Australia, says it expects full year profits to drop 25%, as a weak market hurts its business.
- Citi to launch China credit cards
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:15:27 GMT
The Chinese unit of Citigroup wins approval to launch credit cards in China, the first non-Asian bank to do so.
- Road warriors struggle to get connected
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:09:39 GMT
Road warriors struggle to get connected
- What the Dickens is the author worth?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:05:25 GMT
The worth of the author's brand, 200 years after his death
- Empty shop numbers 'set to rise'
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:03:30 GMT
The number of empty shops on the UK's High Streets is set to increase this year, a survey says, as economic conditions get tougher.
BBC News
- Accounts 'expose Treasury flaws'
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:00:18 GMT
The Treasury is criticised for the way it monitors government spending and manages risk, in an MPs' report on the first set of Whole of Government Accounts.
- Search on for Philippine missing
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:55:21 GMT
Search and rescue efforts are continuing for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving at least 15 dead and 44 missing.
- MPs demand law against stalking
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:47:06 GMT
MPs and peers are are urging the government to bring in a law in England and Wales against stalking - as is already the case in Scotland.
- China worker found dead in Sudan
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:43:40 GMT
The body of a Chinese worker who fled a camp in Sudan when rebels attacked has been found, says China, while 29 kidnapped workers are still missing.
- VIDEO: Dickens's London: Prison to the pub
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:14:32 GMT
The prison, the pub and other landmarks that influenced author
