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Citywire Investment News

  • Towergate launches RDR transition service
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:07:26 +0100
    Towergate Financial is to allow advisers access to its investment proposition and platform as part of a service to help firms prepare for the retail distribution review and improve client communication.

BBC Business News

  • BT profit up despite revenue fall
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:02:31 +0000
    BT reports what it describes as "acceptable" quarterly results, with profits sharply higher despite a fall in revenue.
  • Shell sees profits almost double
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:44:27 +0000
    Second-quarter profits at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell almost double after it completes a year-long restructuring programme.
  • New face
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:26:04 +0000
    Can the new Metro Bank really shake up High Street banking?
  • House price inflation eases again
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:12:47 +0000
    UK house prices fell 0.5% in July, the Nationwide says, cutting the annual rate of house price inflation to 6.6% from 8.7%.

BBC News

  • Jobs boost at solar panel factory
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:03:25 +0000
    Electronics giant Sharp says a "substantial" number of jobs will be created following a £30m expansion of its Wrexham factory.
  • Vicar guilty of sham wedding scam
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:58:51 +0000
    A Sussex vicar is found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages over four years to bypass immigration law.
  • Child heart op ban 'should stay'
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:58:30 +0000
    Children's heart surgery should remain suspended at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital where four babies died, a report says.
  • Second missing US sailor 'dead'
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:57:11 +0000
    Jarod Newlove, the second of two US servicemen who went missing in Afghanistan last week, is found dead, officials say.

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