British house prices fell 1.7 percent in the month of September to post their biggest annual drop since comparable records began in 1991, the Nationwide building society said on Thursday. Interest rate
Marks & Spencer Plc, Britain's biggest clothing retailer, posted a 6.1 percent drop in second-quarter core sales and said it was cutting investment and stepping up promotions in a tough market. The
Nokia Siemens Networks continues to execute on its strategy of building the industry’s most innovative and cost-effective WiMAX platform based on a flat architecture so operators can deploy the most advanced infrastructure
Playboy <PLA.N> magazine is offering a new way to lose your shirt on Wall Street. The adult entertainment magazine, long famous for its photo spreads of nude women and lessons in living
Moody's Investors Service has placed the Ba2 long-term local currency deposit rating of Prominvestbank on review for possible downgrade due to the lowering of the bank's Baseline Credit Assessment from B1 to
The U.S. Senate approved a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, putting pressure on the House to approve a plan that political and financial leaders called crucial to averting economic castastrophe.
The White House expressed hope on Wednesday the Senate would pass a revised $700 billion financial rescue package in the evening, after the House of Representatives voted down a bailout measure earlier
First came denial, then outrage, and finally, as the breadth of the financial crisis sank in, frenzied attempts to limit the damage. The turmoil that sent shockwaves around the world last month
U.S. private employers cut a surprisingly low 8,000 jobs in September, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday. ADP Employer Services also said it revised the number of jobs
Standard Life Investments, a top investor in Lloyds TSB and HBOS, supports the planned takeover of HBOS by Lloyds under the terms originally announced, a person close to the investment firm said.
