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One of the Britain’s most generous savings products has been pulled abruptly from the market by the state-run National Savings & Investments (NS&I) after only 24 days amid complaints from rival banks and building societies.
Of all the companies whose shares have fared badly in the past couple of years, National Grid is among the most perplexing. It has many of the qualities investors would be expected to cherish in times of trouble. Yet the Grid’s...
Peter Stiff: Market report Thomas Cook led the FTSE 100 lower yesterday amid fears that the travel group may hold a fundraising. Shares in Thomas Cook fell 9.3p to 209.2p after Morgan Stanley said that it thought there was a...
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its own Gold It has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs....
A research note from Morgan Stanley said: "Demand is still weak, cost pressures re main and capacity getting harder to cut." That was enough, in an otherwise subdued session, to push shares in Thomas Cook and TUI Travel down by...
Steve Holliday, Chief Executive Office, National Grid presents the annual Energy Futures Lab lecture 2009 Abstract The future is exciting. The world of 2050 will be vastly different from the one we know today. However, only...
One lucky winner will get a life-size T-600 Terminator model, a Sony Blu-ray player, Terminator Salvation on Blu-ray and a pair of tickets for one day at the UK's biggest two-wheeled show, on from Nov 27-Dec 6 at Birmingham's NEC.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talks between General Electric and Vivendi over the future of NBC Universal have stalled, the New York Times reported on Friday night. Citing people involved in the discussions, the newspaper said the two...
to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create a media powerhouse is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over price. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator, wants NBC Universal largely for its...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected results from computer maker Dell and homebuilder D.R. Horton as a further sign that the recovery would be anemic.
