Postal staff set to strike again
Industrial action at the Royal Mail is set to escalate with further strikes next week, the BBC learns.
July 17, 2009
In bank profits, less than meets the eye
The big banks are making big money again, but they won’t be back to health as long as they have to deal with a recession and customers defaulting on mortgages and credit cards.
US banks unleash wave of optimism
World stock markets roared ahead this week as two of Wall Street’s largest banks put the worst of the financial crisis behind them and delighted investors with surging profits
Obama discovers pitfalls of healthcare reform - Reuters
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Citi reports $4.3bn second-quarter profit
Citigroup recorded a $4.3bn profit in the second quarter, thanks to a $6.7bn one-off gain from the partial sale of its brokerage unit, as the bulk of its business continued to be buffeted by the global economic slowdown