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29 Dec 2009 15:08

Kensington Streets Most Costly in U.K. on Pound Lure : The streets in London’s Kensington and Chelsea district have the most expensive U.K. properties with sterling’s slide helping to lure buyers to an area where the average cost of a house exceeds ...

U.K.’s FTSE 100 Beats S&P 500, Nikkei in Erasing Lehman Losses : The U.K. became the first equity market among the biggest developed economies to recover its loss from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s collapse as raw-material producers and banks ...
29 Dec 2009 15:01

UK Retailers Face Another Tough Year, Says BRC : UK retailers believe 2010 would be tough, but not worse than this year, results of a survey conducted by the British Retail Consortium showed Monday. According to BRC's 2010 Concerns Snapshot Survey, four out of five retailers said they expected retail sales in 2010 to be the same as 2009. Encouragingly, none thought sales would be worse and just over ...
28 Dec 2009 15:20

28 Dec 2009 15:17

U.K. Shopper Numbers Surge as Discounting Begins : More U.K. consumers stepped out to shop and opened their wallets online this weekend at retailers including John Lewis Partnership Plc to take advantage of post- holiday discounting. The number of customers at stores on Dec. 26 increased by 19 percent, making it the busiest day on record, and 18 percent on Dec. 27, Experian Plc said in an e-mail. Shoppers in Britain spent 132 ...

24 Dec 2009 15:30

British Pound Snaps Three-Day Losing Streak as Stocks Advance : The pound rose against the dollar and U.K. government bonds fell amid signs the global economy is recovering and as stock markets advanced. The gains for the British currency snapped a three-day losing streak versus the dollar as the FTSE 100 Index climbed for a fourth day. The Confederation of British Industry raised its 2010 ...

Britain stuck in recession as economy shrinks 0.2% : Britain remains the last major economy in recession after official data Tuesday showed the country's output shrank by 0.2 percent in the third quarter. The Office for National Statistics said that British gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 percent during the July-September period compared with the previous three-month period. ...
23 Dec 2009 15:41

23 Dec 2009 15:38

Pound Near Two-Month Low as Minutes Show 9-0 Bond-Program Vote : The pound traded within half a cent of its lowest level in two months against the dollar as minutes of this month’s central bank meeting showed policy makers were unanimous in backing a ...

17 Dec 2009 15:03

UK retail sales in surprise fall : UK retail sales fell in November, according to official figures, despite analysts' predictions of a rise. Sales were down 0.3% according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). That compares with a rise of 0.6% in October. ...

10 Dec 2009 15:11

UK interest rate remains at 0.5% : The Bank of England has held UK interest rates at the record low of 0.5% in a widely-expected move. It also announced no changes to its programme of pumping newly-created money into the economy - so-called quantitative easing (QE). ...

09 Dec 2009 15:43

Darling: UK Economy Coming Out Of Recession : Revealing the final pre-Budget report before the election, Alistair Darling said that the economy had shrunk by 4.75% in the last year but was expected to grow by 1-1.5% in 2010, as he had forecast in ...

UK trade gap widens unexpectedly : The UK's trade deficit with the rest of the world widened in October. Imports rose more than exports, an unexpected move given the weakness of the pound, which makes foreign-made goods more expensive in the UK. ...
09 Dec 2009 15:41

08 Dec 2009 15:24

U.K. Pound Declines Against Dollar, Euro After Moody’s Report : The pound fell against the dollar and the euro after Moody’s Investors Service described the U.K. as weaker than top-rated peers including Germany and France. Britain and the U.S. had “resilient” Aaa ratings, as opposed to the “resistant” top ratings on Canada, Germany and France, Moody’s said in a report today. U.K. Chancellor of the ...

08 Dec 2009 15:21

U.K. Insures $273 Billion of RBS’s Overseas Assets : U.K. taxpayers are insuring more than 167 billion pounds ($273 billion) of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s risky assets outside the U.K., 59 percent of the total covered by the government’s ...

Best-Paid U.K. Public Servants Get 5.4% Pay Raise, Study Says : Britain’s highest-paid government workers received an average 5.4 percent pay raise last year, more than double the rate of inflation and six times the average increase across the ...
04 Dec 2009 15:11

UK Treasury Spend GBP 850 Bln On Bank Bailouts : UK banks received GBP 850 billion support from the HM Treasury during the financial crisis, a report from the National Audit Office showed Friday. The spending watchdog said the public support provided by ...
04 Dec 2009 15:09

UK announces $83 million in new aid to Pakistan : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan. Brown said the money would go into Pakistan's program to help re-establish its control over the chaotic border region, which he has identified as the source of three-quarters of the terrorist plots that ...
03 Dec 2009 15:47

UK banks $5 bln exposure to Dubai World : UK banks have a $5 billion total exposure to Dubai World, making them the biggest foreign creditor group at the troubled Dubai state-owned conglomerate, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing bankers ...
03 Dec 2009 15:24

03 Dec 2009 15:23

U.K. Car Insurers to Raise Rates as Investment Income Dwindles : U.K. car insurers will have to raise premiums by a further 5 percent to make up for lower investment returns this year, according to research by Deloitte LLP. British auto insurers will likely make a 1 billion-pound ($1.7 billion) loss from insuring drivers this year and will have to raise prices to offset the cost of claims and dwindling ...

02 Dec 2009 15:25

Pound Rises to One-Week High Versus Dollar on Construction Data : The pound rose to the highest level in almost a week against the dollar after a report showed the pace of contraction in the U.K. construction industry slowed and investor concern eased ...

01 Dec 2009 15:31

Pound Rises as U.K. House Prices Advance, Dubai Concern Eases : The pound advanced against the dollar and the euro as house prices rose for a seventh month and Dubai World began talks with banks, easing concern a delay in debt payments will hurt U.K. ...

30 Nov 2009 15:33

U.K. House Prices Rise for Fourth Month, Mortgages Increase : U.K. house prices rose for a fourth month in November and mortgage approvals climbed to the highest level in 1 1/2 years as the economy started to emerge from the recession. The average cost of a home in England and Wales climbed 0.2 percent from the previous month to 156,700 pounds ($258,000), Hometrack Ltd. said today. Lenders granted 57,345 mortgages in ...

Royal Bank of Scotland to Issue 26 Billion Pounds in Shares : Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it will issue 25.5 billion pounds of B shares and one dividend access share to the U.K. Treasury and State Aid Committments. ...
27 Nov 2009 15:13

U.K. Bank Loans Outstanding to U.A.E. Most in Europe : British banks are Europe’s biggest lenders to the United Arab Emirates, constituting $49.5 billion of the continent’s $87.3 billion loans outstanding to the Gulf state, Royal Bank of Scotland ...
27 Nov 2009 15:12

27 Nov 2009 15:04

Gold hits US$1,190 as more central banks buy : Gold prices hit record highs above US$1,190 an ounce Wednesday as the dollar fell sharply and the market expected central banks from emerging economies to keep buying bullion from the International Monetary ...

U.K. Retail Sales Index Rises to Highest Since 2007, CBI Says : A U.K. index of retail sales rose in November to the highest in two years in November, adding to evidence Britain has escaped the longest recession on record. Retailers saying sales volumes rose from a year earlier outnumbered those reporting declines by 13 percentage points, the highest balance since November 2007, the Confederation of British ...
26 Nov 2009 14:58

UK economic contraction in Q3 revised down : The British economy shrank less than previously estimated in the third quarter, suggesting that the grip of the worst recession in decades is finally easing, according to official figures released on ...
25 Nov 2009 15:41

24 Nov 2009 15:06

Gold May Gain on Speculation Central Bank Buying to Continue : Gold, little changed in New York and London today, may gain on speculation central banks and investors will continue to purchase bullion. Futures reached an all-time high of $1,174 an ounce yesterday as the U.S. Dollar Index dropped the most in two weeks and Russia’s central bank said it bought more bullion last month. The ...

23 Nov 2009 15:42

Children 'worth £5bn to economy' : Spending by children in the UK has hit record levels despite a fall in parents' disposable incomes, research has suggested. The London School of Economics said spending by young people was now worth £4.89bn to the British economy. ...

20 Nov 2009 15:16

Pound falls on UK debt concerns : Sterling fell to a one-week low against the dollar on Friday on concerns over the UK's fiscal health and waning investor appetite for currencies perceived as risky. Figures released on Thursday showed UK public finances deteriorated almost twice as fast as expected last month, raising the risk the government will have to increase its borrowing forecasts in its pre-budget report ...

RBS Australia Sells A$2 Billion Government-Backed Bonds : Royal Bank of Scotland Plc’s Australian unit sold A$2 billion of 15-month bonds guaranteed by the Australian government, according to a statement from the seller. The bank sold A$1.6 billion of floating rate notes that pay 25 basis points above the 3-month Australian bank bill swap rate. It also sold A$400 million of fixed-rate debt at a yield of 5.0125 ...
20 Nov 2009 15:13

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29 Dec 2009

Kensington Streets Most Costly in U.K. on Pound Lure

U.K.’s FTSE 100 Beats S&P 500, Nikkei in Erasing Lehman Losses
29 Dec 2009

UK Retailers Face Another Tough Year, Says BRC
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