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Barclays investors express concern with Bob Diamond

9 September, 2010

Telegraph: Top institutional investors are to demand that Barclays strengthens its board with extra non-executive directors to ensure a better balance of power when Bob Diamond becomes chief executive.

Overview: Rally resumes as fears about Europe’s banks ease

9 September, 2010

FT.com: A degree of confidence returned to the markets as worries over Europe’s banking system faded, allowing equities on both sides of the Atlantic to resume their September rally and the euro to regain some ground...

More pension funds to buy leveraged loans

7 September, 2010

Global Pensions: Pension funds will become bigger investors in leveraged loans because the asset class provides more stable returns than equity and high-yield bonds, according to Harbourmaster Capital Management.

Break-ups not the key, says bank industry

7 September, 2010

FT.com: The government’s Commission on Banking should back away from considering a break-up of the country’s most powerful lenders and focus instead on high-street competition, says the chief of the body that represents...

Money market fund protection unlikely to continue

7 September, 2010

Global Pensions: Investors in struggling money market funds are less likely to receive financial support from fund sponsors post-crisis, research from Moody's warns.

Job vacancy decline knocks confidence

6 September, 2010

Telegraph: The confidence of Britain's bosses in the economic recovery could be waning after new figures reveal a decline in the number of job vacancies last month.

Fury at Tories new plan to sell Royal Mail

6 September, 2010

Mirror.co.uk: A Government report claims privatising the 350-year-old postal service is the only way of saving it from falling custom and a £10billion pension deficit.

Manufacturing stages a record-beating recovery

6 September, 2010

The Independent: A remarkable resurgence by British manufacturing industry is reported today by the Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF).

US jobless figures set to raise fears of double dip

3 September, 2010

Independent: Investors are bracing themselves for another grim snapshot of the US labour market today, when the government is expected to confirm that unemployment is again on the rise.

Standard Life to scrap 600 jobs in £100m cost-cutting plan

2 September, 2010

Telegraph: Standard Life, the insurance and asset management group, is to shed 600 jobs over the next 15 months as its attemptes to cut £100m of costs by the end of next year.

Industrial upturn bolsters world markets

2 September, 2010

This Is Money: Shares prices on both sides of the Atlantic surged after new data bolstered hopes of global economic recovery.

Veteran fund chief quits at Gartmore

2 September, 2010

FT.com: The intrigue surrounding fund manager Gartmore has escalated after one of its longest serving fund managers quit the company.

GLG's Roman named Man Group chief operating officer

2 September, 2010

Reuters: British hedge fund company Man Group Plc named GLG head Emmanuel Roman as its chief operating officer on Wednesday, to help Man Group integrate its recent acquisition of the GLG business.

Confident consumers raise hopes of averting double-dip recession

1 September, 2010

Guardian: Britain's consumer confidence rose in August for the first time in six months, bolstering the incipient economic recovery and raising hopes that the country will not fall into a double-dip recession

Funds get green light for BofA and Merrill securities fraud case

1 September, 2010

Global Pensions: Pension funds from Europe and the US have been given the go-ahead to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit against Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.

Wall Street, European markets steady after surprise jump in US consumer confidence

1 September, 2010

Telegraph: Wall Street edged higher, halting a slide in European stocks, after a surprise jump in US consumer confidence offset Japanese jitters about the global recovery.

Asian markets’ confident mood flags

31 August, 2010

Financial Times: Asian stock markets are falling back with Tokyo shares sinking as the yen rebounds after disappointing stimulus measures from the Japanese central bank and government.

Stock markets face a 'bloodbath', warns SocGen strategist Albert Edwards

27 August, 2010

Telegraph: Investors should brace themselves for an equities "bloodbath" and a further fall in bond yields when the current excessive optimism propping up the market seeps away, Albert Edwards, a strategist at Société...

Asian stocks slip as investors wait for Bernanke

27 August, 2010

Reuters: Asian stocks fell on Friday to round off a week of losses as persistent worries over whether the U.S. economy may suffer another recession kept investors dour.

S&P says bosses not behind banks' recovery

27 August, 2010

Independent: Bank bosses have done little to improve performance at their companies despite the recent round of strong results and will be all but powerless in the event of a double-dip downturn, Standard & Poor's...

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