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Credit crunch fuels a bargain holiday boom

Coach holidays, hostels and cheap destinations are enjoying a surprise boom as holidaymakers downshift their travel plans to cheaper alternatives. Skiweekends.com, the coach-based wintersports firm, last week reported that its...

Shares cheapest for a generation

Investors urged to sit tight after a £250 billion crash. The FTSE 100, Britain’s blue chip index, plummeted more than 24% last week, its worst loss since Black Monday in October 1987, wiping £250 billion off the value of the...

Bail-out to halt cash dividends of big four banks

Shareholders in the four main UK banks face the prospect of receiving no cash dividends until at least 2010, analysts have said, as a result of £400bn bank rescue package announced by the government this week. Banks that choose...

Investors given chance to quit MW Tops fund

Investors in Marshall Wace’s £754m London-listed MW Tops hedge fund have been offered the chance to withdraw from the fund at close to its underlying net asset value after a sharp fall in its share price. MW Tops had tumbled...

Earnings Outlook: Google results may reflect an entirely different era

When Google Inc. reports its fiscal third-quarter results after the market's close next Thursday, it will largely be a glimpse into a more comfortable past, rather than a window into the broader technology market's future.

Weakening PC demand expected to affect Intel, AMD

Weakening demand for personal computers has led analysts to take a more cautious look at Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as the two giants of the PC-chip industry prepare to release third-quarter results.

Google results may reflect an entirely different era

SAN FRANCISCO (Menafn - MarketWatch) -- When Google Inc. reports its fiscal third-quarter results after the market's close next Thursday, it will largely be a glimpse into a more comfortable past, rather than a window into the...

Barclays plans to raise funds from within markets rather than taxpayer's pockets

Barclays today said it was considering raising funds from the markets instead of the British taxpayer but analysts warned that it may be disappointed as investors snub banks. It came as Abbey ploughed £1billion into the frozen...

Savers 'to desert foreign banks'

After the Icelandic banking collapse, British savers are starting to value safety above getting the best rates of interest. By Rosie Murray-West and Kara Gammell British customers are unable to make withdrawals from their...

Scottish Business Briefing - Friday October 10, 2008

Published Date: 10 October 2008 WELCOME to scotsman.com's Scottish Business Briefing. HBOS was up 31.20 per cent to 154p, Lloyds increased 0.83 per cent to 212p and RBS showed gains of 5.84 per cent to 96p Read all today's...

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