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Citywire Investment News

• Walker Crips hires ex BNP Paribas UK wealth head Rushton
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:44 Z
  The private client stockbroker has hired former BNP Paribas head of UK wealth management Mark Rushton to spearhead the growth of its private client business.
  

• Supergroup tumbles on profit warning; FTSE edges up
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:10:20 Z
  UK index back above 5,900 amid hopes that Greece is finally about to secure a deal for a new international bailout package.
  

• 2,000 tax dodgers come clean in Liechtenstein clampdown
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:08:09 Z
  Around 2,000 tax evaders with money invested in Liechtenstein have come clean after HM Revenue Customs put the European tax haven under the spotlight.
  

• Ruffer: index linkers remain the cornerstone of our strategy
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:00 Z
  The Ruffer team still believe index linked bond are dangerous not to own despite the risk asset rally and describe the Fed?s commitment to keep interest rates on hold until 2014 as a ?moral hazard?. 
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• House prices rose 0.6% in January, says Halifax
  Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:54:16 Z
  The average UK house price is now £161,000.
  

• The 20 postcodes most 'at risk' of burglary
  Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:34 Z
  The areas in the UK that see the most home insurance claims for theft or burglary, and the postcodes that are least at risk.
  

• House prices flat as market 'dogged by uncertainty'
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  January marked the eighteenth month that house prices did not rise, according to Hometrack.
  

• Buying a house is now cheaper than renting one
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Buying a house is over £100 a month cheaper than renting, according to Halifax. Wales is the exception.
  

BBC Business News

• Nissan profits up on global sales
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:20:48 GMT
  Nissan reports a 3.6% rise its profit for the October to December quarter despite disruptions caused by floods in Thailand.
  

• RBS boss: I considered resigning
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:16:01 GMT
  Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Stephen Hester, tells the BBC he briefly considered resigning during the uproar over his bonus.
  

• Greek parties 'to finalise deal'
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:58 GMT
  Greek PM Lucas Papademos is set to meet coalition parties in an attempt to seal an austerity deal to secure a new EU/IMF bailout.
  

• German exports hit record in 2011
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:17 GMT
  German's trade surplus rises to 158bn euros in 2011 on record exports of 1.06tn euros, official figures show.
  

FT.com - Financial Markets News

• Banks help FTSE 100 back over 5,900
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:55 GMT
  The index reached its highest level since early August, helped by a rally in the banking sector and some well-received corporate earnings
  

• Stocks hit fresh six month highs
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:17:54 GMT
  Stocks hit a fresh six month high as hopes for the global economic recovery outweigh the sentiment-sapping impact of the lingering eurozone fiscal crisis
  

• Stockpickers ride again as investors hunt value
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:20:53 GMT
  Trades on undervalued stocks finally paying off after better US data and ECB liquidity efforts help stabilise volatile equities
  

• Euro nears six-week high
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:36 GMT
  Australian dollar moves sharply higher after the Reserve Bank of Australia surprises the market by leaving its main rate at 4.25 per cent
  

BBC News

• RBS boss: I considered resigning
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:39:00 GMT
  Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Stephen Hester, says he briefly considered resigning during the uproar over his bonus.
  

• Dissidents get PSNI woman's phone
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:32:47 GMT
  A police woman's lost mobile phone containing hundreds of photographs and operational details falls into the hands of dissident republicans.
  

• Taylor art auction fetches £14m
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:31:36 GMT
  Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor's personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.
  

• 'Dozens killed' in Homs shelling
  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:29:31 GMT
  Syrian opposition groups say more than 40 people have been killed as the bombardment of the city of Homs continues.
  

Times Online Top Stories

• Government scales back child worker vetting scheme
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:54 GMT
  Plans to vet millions of people working with children and vulnerable adults are to be scaled back to ?common sense? levels, the Government announced todayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2c452c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199304108/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187450668/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199304108/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187450668/kg/45/a2.img" border="0"//a
  

• Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:03:21 GMT
  9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2c072c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.img" border="0"//a
  

• Inflation eases as food prices begin to fall
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:51:00 GMT
  Inflation eased in May to 3.4 per cent from a 17-month high the previous month, helped by weaker rises in food and petrol prices.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2b7537/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.img" border="0"//a
  

• News Corp reaches for the Sky with takeover offer
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:00 GMT
  News Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2ae3e0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.img" border="0"//a