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Ofgem calls for new year cuts to home energy bills
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Tesco reports sales boost
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Supermarket giant Tesco reported signs of improving consumer confidence today as it geared up for the Christmas sales battle.
City in uproar at plan for bonus 'supertax'
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Treasury dismisses claims that new levy on payouts will drive bankers abroad
Five AIG executives in threat to quit over pay row
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Anastasia Kelly. Rodney Martin. William Dooley. Nicholas Walsh. John Doyle. These are the five senior executives at AIG who threatened last week to quit the government-owned insurer if their compensation is cut by the Obama administration's pay tsar, sparking a new public furore in the US over bonuses at bailed-out companies.
'Consumer confidence fragile' as retail sales growth slows
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
November numbers poor as Christmas period looms
Black fights for his freedom in appeal against fraud conviction
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
A US Supreme Court review of Conrad Black's fraud convictions could open the floodgates to scores of white-collar criminal appeals and make it harder to prosecute corporate fraud, prosecutors are warning. The Conservative peer, for whom The Daily Telegraph was once the jewel in a global newspaper empire, takes his case to the highest court in the US this morning, in the hope of winning release from the six-and-a-half-year jail term he began last year.
Shanks put up for sale after Carlyle offers £536m
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Shanks yesterday told potential suitors that an offer of 150p a share would be enough to buy the waste management group. The move came after the US private equity firm Carlyle approached shareholders with a bid valuing the company at £536m, the equivalent of only 135p a share.
Disappointment as manufacturing output stagnates new
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Struggling manufacturers cast further doubts over the strength of the recovery today after official figures showed output stagnating in October.
National Express finally close in on new CEO
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Dean Finch is likely to decide within the next week whether he will accept an offer to become the next chief executive of indebted transport group National Express, which has been without a boss since July.
Business Diary: How much for Knight to ride to the rescue?
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
British Bankers' Association chief executive Angela Knight was on her usual combative form yesterday over plans for a tax on bankers' bonuses. Does she get a bonus for spinning on behalf of the most unpopular people in the world? Difficult to know, since the BBA's own annual report includes not a single word on what staff at the organisation are paid.
Elusive and fragile recovery threatened by soaring deficit
Monday, 7 December 2009
Business leaders warn of potential economic relapse as Chancellor prepares report
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