2014年12月20日 星期六

2014-12-21 U.K. Business


Herald Scotland
   
'save our oil'   
Herald Scotland
UNION and industry representatives have called for the UK Government to cut taxes to help save the North Sea oil industry following the crisis triggered by a dramatic slump in the price of a barrel of crude. UNION and industry representatives have called for ...

Leader: Falling oil price a dangerous threat   Scotsman
SIMON WATKINS: Oil industry must be safeguarded as drop in the price of oil ...   This is Money
North Sea: Sinking Oil Price Is Hard on North Sea Producers   Full-Time Whistle
The Times (subscription)   
New York Times   
Forbes   
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MyHighPlains
   
Super Saturday Shopping   
MyHighPlains
December 20th was expected to be the busiest shopping day of the year, and if you were out and about in Amarillo, it seems believable. AMARILLO -- December 20th was expected to be the busiest shopping day of the year, and if you were out and about in ...

Shops' low prices give us early Christmas presents   Express.co.uk
Shoppers pack malls for Super Saturday   KHQ Right Now
Super Saturday poised to eclipse Black Friday as top shopping day   Macro Insider
U-T San Diego   
NBC Bay Area   
International Business Times   
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Financial Times
   
CBR shows how not to intervene   
Financial Times
Never before has Russia's central bank been so much in the spotlight. In the space of just 29 hours — from 10am on Monday, December 15 to 3pm on Tuesday, December 16 — the price of US dollars in Moscow skyrocketed by 50 per cent. The plunging ...

UPDATE 1-Russia c.bank raises limit on forex swaps to alleviate rouble squeeze   Reuters
FTSE 100 closes turbulent week higher   The Guardian
Russia central bank raises limit on forex swaps to alleviate rouble squeeze   Yahoo News UK

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BBC News
   
Apple 'deeply offended' by BBC investigation   
BBC News
Apple has said it is "deeply offended" by a BBC investigation into conditions for workers involved in manufacturing its devices. Rules on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were routinely breached, the Panorama ...

Apple goes to war with the BBC   Telegraph.co.uk
Apple 'deeply offended' by probe into suppliers' work conditions   Times of India
Video reveals distressing conditions inside alleged Apple factory   TVNZ
The Guardian   
MarketWatch   
TechCrunch   
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Yahoo News UK
   
AstraZeneca CEO says new Pfizer bid unlikely - Swedish daily DI   
Yahoo News UK
Reuters/Reuters - Chief Executive of AstraZeneca Pascal Soriot leaves after appearing at a commons science committee hearing at Portcullis House in London May 14, 2014. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - U.S. Pfizer is unlikely to ...

AstraZeneca CEO says new Pfizer bid unlikely   Peninsula On-line
AstraZeneca chief crosses fingers and plays down $45bn vow   The Times (subscription)

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Gulf Times
   
Eurozone inflation rate to turn negative: ECB official   
Gulf Times
European Central Bank Vice President Vitor Constancio said in a magazine interview he expected the eurozone inflation rate to turn negative in the coming months but that if this was just a temporary phenomenon, he did not see a risk of deflation.
UPDATE 2-ECB's Constancio sees negative inflation rate in months ahead ...   Reuters
Euro zone inflation rate may turn negative in months ahead   Arab News
ECB's Constancio sees negative inflation rate in months ahead - magazine   Yahoo News UK

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Garden Bridge: a blot on the landscape?   
Telegraph.co.uk
Like most people, my reaction on first hearing about the Garden Bridge was, "What a lovely idea! And from lovely Joanna Lumley, too…" With Thomas Heatherwick as architect and Dan Pearson as landscape designer, it seemed a "dream team" was in place ...

City Hall says yes to Garden Bridge... but they need to find £65m before work ...   Evening Standard
City Hall gives Joanna Lumley's controversial £175m Garden Bridge final ...   ITV News
Three fight for Garden Bridge contract after Boris backs it   New Civil Engineer
Peninsula On-line   
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BBC News
   
Catching a wave of failures   
BBC News
Through Scottish Enterprise, it has a fund for taking stakes in fledgling companies with high-growth potential, and particularly those at a stage where it's hard to get the funding necessary for development. Now, through Highlands and Islands Enterprise, it is ...

16 jobs to go as administrators fail to find buyer for Edinbugh-based wave power ...   Scottish Daily Record
Scottish Government to buy bust Pelamis' assets   Scotsman
Scottish Government to buy assets of defunct wave power company Pelamis   Herald Scotland
The Courier   
reNews   
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The Independent
   
Subsidies go to polluting plants to provide back-up for clean power   
The Independent
Green campaigners rounded on the Government yesterday after it gave fossil-fuel plants most of the subsidies in a £1bn scheme to promote low-carbon electricity. The subsidies, awarded after a bidding competition, are designed to keep the lights on when ...

Energy companies given £1bn to keep the lights on   The Times (subscription)
£1bn subsidy in energy capacity auction will boost coal and nuclear power   The Guardian
UK households to pay $1.6 bln for backup power plants   Daily Mail
FinancialAdvice.co.uk   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Business Green   
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Market Business News
   
FX fixing scandal arrest made in Billericay   
BillericayEssex
Article by Samantha Payne: A City trader has become the first person to be arrested for rigging the £3.5tn-a-day foreign exchange market. He is currently being detained following a raid on his home in Billericay, Essex in the early hours of this morning (Fri 19 ...

Billericay banker arrested in serious fraud investigation   Brentwood Gazette
Banker arrested in foreign exchange rigging scandal after banks fined £2.6bn   The Independent
Ex-RBS trader arrested on suspicion of forex manipulation   Market Business News
Reuters   
Financial Times   
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