VIENNA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Austria's Erste Bank warned profit growth would fall well short of previous expectations this year as financial market turbulence hits its trading result and some of the securities in its portfolio,...
The deepening financial crisis brings daily news of corporate collapses and bailouts that plunder the taxpayers' pockets at an unprecedented scale. Its 2007 accounts received a clean bill of health (page 44) from auditors KPMG....
Energy firms are being forced to become more transparent about where they earn their profits or face the wrath of the Competition Commission. Regulator Ofgem has finished a seven-month investigation into whether gas and...
The FTSE 100 index is seen opening 48-100 points higher today by financial bookmakers, bouncing back after Monday's savage sell-off with some bargain hunting possible after Wall Street recovered from its lowest levels...
The visits of electric plants are the newest trend in the tourism field in Italy. After the tours of wine cellars, castles, Roman sightseeings, the curious Italians turned their attention of the places where the man meets the...
A third of graduates who started university after 1998 are not paying back their student loans yet. Some 400,000 graduates are earning below the £15,000 income threshold to pay back their loan, since the introduction of tuition...
Do bosses need their own Hippocratic Oath?ALREADY the managers of many of the world’s leading financial firms have been found wanting. Now, as the world’s economy slows, attention will turn to managers of non-financial firms,...
Electricity trading volume on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in September 2008 totalled 119.8 TWh, compared with 89.8 TWh in September 2007. This includes 12,765,893 MWh (September 2007: 10,398,946 MWh) traded on the...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Romania Insurance Report Q3 2008" report to their offering. Romania Insurance Report provides independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Romania´s insurance...