UK snow insurance claims at £650m

Insurers paid out £650m from 335,000 claims made as a result of damage caused by the wintry weather in the UK.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: BBC.co.uk

Costain sees nuclear future

The boom in school and hospital building is over and the future of civil engineering is nuclear, according to Costain, the engineering and construction group.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Malcolm Calvert, former Cazenove partner, guilty of insider dealing

A former partner at Cazenove was convicted of insider dealing yesterday after making more than £100,000 profit from trading ahead of three takeovers.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Financial Services Authority to tighten watch on rogue products

Banks, insurers and investment companies will have new products scrutinised as they are developed, under a tough regime being formulated by the Financial Services Authority.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Our staff have earned their bonuses, says Northern Rock chief executive

Northern Rock's boss yesterday defended the decision to pay staff almost £15 million in bonuses despite the state-owned bank's loss of more than £250 million last year.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

EMI chief Elio Leoni-Sceti walks away - bands may be on the run

The future of EMI looked even more parlous yesterday when it parted company with its chief executive amid suggestions that several of its biggest acts were considering jumping ship.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Google looks at clouds from both sides now

Google is broadening its assault on Microsoft's dominance of business software by launching an online marketplace for other companies' products.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

James Murdoch digs in over content battle with Google

James Murdoch yesterday reiterated News Corporation's tough attitude towards Google, repeating the threat made by his father to withdraw the company's content from the search engine giant.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Europe should beware of Greeks bearing grudges

For sheer brazen cheek, George Papandreou should be given a prize. The Greek Prime Minister is in the United States for meetings with President Obama and his Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. He wants support, not a big wad of cash, to rescue the floundering Greek economy. He is stirring up a hate campaign, banging the drum against market speculators, whom he says are conspiring against Greece.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

A look under Inchcape's bonnet

It is a retailer, on impossibly low margins, with falling sales, hopelessly nailed to the health of the global economy, refinanced by a deeply discounted rights issue last year - and it isn't paying a dividend. So, would you buy a used share certificate from Inchcape?

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Cut to the Chase

Yesterday the Prime Minister scared the nation, this time on purpose. He reminded us that, in just over six months in 2008, the equivalent of nearly four years of economic growth vanished. Global trade fell by 40 per cent. In the 18 months after the credit crunch, stock markets halved in value. Mr Brown's Government was forced to act in a manner out of the wildest dreams of Michael Foot - nationalising a building society and using £50 billion of public money to buy majority control of two of the world's largest banks (see page 11).

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

There's no place like home for Standard Life

So Standard Life's frontier growth market is ... the UK. David Nish used his maiden outing as chief executive to describe why a life and pensions market that competitors see as ex-growth is full of potential. Prudential wants to be bigger in Asia, Aviva says the future is in Europe, but Standard Life is happy to stay at home.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Business big shot: Alain Grisay

If you are a young fund manager who takes pride in your entrepreneurial approach, then Alain Grisay may be someone you want to talk to. More to the point, the chief executive of F&C Asset Management may be very keen to talk to you.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

GPs 'lax' on cholesterol targets

Many lives could be saved if GPs followed guidelines for reducing cholesterol in those at high risk of heart disease, a study suggests.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: BBC.co.uk

Vitiligo skin graft 'effective'

Skin transplant surgery can be an effective way of treating the skin disease vitiligo, say US researchers.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: BBC.co.uk

Hospital rap over medicine errors

Too many patients in England and Wales are not getting their medicines in hospital, a safety watchdog says.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: BBC.co.uk

N Rock 'bad bank' set to return to profit

The bank's asset management business is on course to return to profit as early as this year, well ahead of the so-called good part of the nationalised lender

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: FT.com

BP tipped to seal Brazilian offshore deal

BP has emerged as a front-runner to buy $5 billion ($£3.3 billion) of oil assets from Devon Energy, the independent US oil and gas producer.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Roy Stanley behind £70 million SEV US bid

Roy Stanley, the former chairman of Tanfield Group, is orchestrating an unusual plan to take over the company's main electric vehicles division in a £70 million conditional proposal that sent its shares racing 46 per cent higher.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Tube Lines looting London, says the Mayor

London Underground must find an extra £460 million to finance the upgrade of the Northern and Piccadilly lines.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

City excited by predator stalking Tullett Prebon

Shares in Tullett Prebon jumped almost 26 per cent as the inter-dealer broker (IDB) said that it was in the sights of a predator. At yesterday's 390p closing price, the company, run by Terry Smith, is worth £840 million.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: TimesOnline.co.uk

Man Utd v AC Milan: Sir Alex Ferguson challenges Wayne Rooney to score 42 goals

Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged Wayne Rooney to eclipse Cristiano Ronaldo's 42-goal return in the 2007-08 campaign.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Telegraph.co.uk

EastEnders: Max Branning to 'kidnap' daughter-in-law Stacey Branning to force her to confess she murdered Archie Mitchell - pics

Max, played by Jake Wood, takes the law into his own hands by breaking into a car, dragging her inside and speeding off.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: mirror.co.uk

David Prosser: Why Barclays must not get ahead of itself

From basket case to buyer. Less than two years ago, almost everyone assumed that Barclays would join Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group in taking a bailout from the Government. Having avoided that fate, its recovery has been so strong that City gossips now take very seriously talk that Barclays is planning a major acquisition in the US retail banking sector.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Change of tune at EMI

EMI Music's chief executive has shocked the market by quitting weeks before the group was due to draw up a growth plan critical to its future. The beleaguered music label has appointed the former ITV chief executive Charles Allen to replace him.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Toyota to return to full-time working in UK factories

Toyota, the embattled Japanese car-maker that has been embroiled in a row over the safety of its vehicles in recent weeks, yesterday said that employees at its factories in north Wales and Derbyshire were set to return to full-time working.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

The Icelandic toy story

Even being bombed five times during the Blitz didn't stop staff keeping Hamleys' store on London's Regent Street open throughout the Second World War. They just donned tin hats.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Branson takes BA tie-up fight to Europe

British Airways' concessions to Europe's competition watchdog over its proposed tie-up with American Airlines (AA) were derided by Sir Richard Branson as "woefully inadequate" yesterday.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Market Report: Bargain hunters see value in Shanks

The waste management group Shanks attempted a comeback as bargain hunters piled in last night.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Underground row changes tack

The row over funding for the London Tube upgrade switched to a new, but equally incendiary tack yesterday after the independent Arbiter settled the value of the next slug of work at £4.46bn and immediately faced a threat of a legal challenge from Transport for London (TfL).

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Glencore still on track for flotation despite slump in profits in 2009

Glencore, the secretive Swiss commodities trader, yesterday insisted that its 2009 results were "credible" despite profits falling by 43 per cent.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

David Prosser: Dump the phoney Budget

With Gordon Brown yesterday having set 24 March as Budget Day, it's a little late to be offering this advice, but here goes anyway: let's not bother with a Budget this side of the general election at all.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

£15m bonuses 'justified' after Rock slashes losses by £1bn

Northern Rock, the state-owned bank, said yesterday it would pay its staff £14.9m in bonuses after reducing its annual losses by more than £1bn.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk

Former Cazenove banker found guilty of insider dealing

A former Cazenove banker will return to Southwark Crown Court in London today to be sentenced, after being convicted yesterday on five counts of insider dealing.

Found on 03/11/2010, 03:00 h, Source: Independent.co.uk