Ministers have warned Britain’s banks that ministers would leave “no stone unturned”to increase the supply of affordable loans to businesses or face the threat of a competition probe if evidence of a market failure emerges
The FTSE 100 matched its record for the strongest series of consecutive gains on Monday, as confidence continued to return to the market.
Friends Provident has rejected a fresh £1.7bn cash-and-share approach which values the life assurer at 74.6p a share
There are a wide variety of industries such as car manufacturers and industrial companies among others that find themselves in need of shipping extremely large and heavy items They often need to locate a company that can ship these items across country for them Most of them are not sure if the services of an average Des Moines carrier service would work to move some of this equipment for them
UK banks insist lending to small firms is continuing to rise as they are due to meet the chancellor over the issue.
Tina Brown’s keeping plenty busy these days, both feeling out the pain of the hoi polloi - but especially of those old media people she intends on stomping out - while failing to slide her kid into Harvard with connections. Because even when Mom - the former editor of Vanity Fair, the short-lived Talk, …
European lenders are bracing themselves for a wave of defaults as the credit card crisis that caused billions of dollars in losses in US banks spreads across the Atlantic