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  • Tata on track for refinancing

    May 21, 2009

    Tata Motors, which owns British marques through its Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) unit, moved closer to fully refinancing the $3bn (£1.8bn) bridge loan it used to buy JLR, after it raised 426bn rupees (£26.4m) through a rupee bond yeterday. Together with earlier prepayments of $1.11bn, the bond means India’s largest automaker now has $1.05bn outstanding [...]

  • Ryanair pursues pay cuts for Aer Lingus directors

    May 21, 2009

    IRISH budget airline Ryanair kept up the pressure on arch rival Aer Lingus on Thursday with a campaign to extract large pay cuts from its chairman and non-executive directors. Ryanair, Aer Lingus’ biggest shareholder with a near 30 per cent stake, is proposing the former state carrier’s chairman Colin Barrington receive &1119;35,000 (£30,648) in pay [...]

  • Mandelson warns of GM ‘pain’

    May 21, 2009

    Business Secretary Lord Mandelson warned yesterday there will be “painful change” after the takeover of GM Europe.  He said whichever bidder wins GM’s British arm, Vauxhall, will be forced to cut costs and consolidate. He added he was working hard to secure the future of Vauxhall’s plants. Italian carmaker Fiat and Canadian parts maker Magna [...]

  • More jobs go as DMGT falls into the red

    May 21, 2009

    DAILY Mail and General Trust (DMGT) said yesterday that had fallen into the red, posting a pre-tax loss of £239m for the six months to 29 March – forcing it to cut more jobs. The owner of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday said that it had been hit by a £188m non-cash [...]

  • A catastrophe made in Downing Street

    May 21, 2009

    WE are moving ever closer to the day of reckoning. As if another set of dreadful public finance figures yesterday wasn’t enough, the markets were also rattled by S&P’s decision to cut the outlook for the UK’s sovereign credit rating from stable to negative. Years of fiscal profligacy during the boom years are finally catching [...]

  • Greenspan issues bank warning

    May 21, 2009

    Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned yesterday that US banks may have to raise significant amounts of money before the economy can recover. “There is still a very large unfunded capital requirement in the commercial banking system in the United States,” he said. Greenspan, who has been blamed by some for [...]

  • General Motors thrashes out deal with workers’ union over healthcare debts

    May 21, 2009

    GENERAL Motors (GM) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) yesterday reached an agreement on contract changes and restructuring $20bn (£12.6bn) in debt owed to a trust fund for retiree healthcare. The tentative agreement, which was reached after a round of intensive talks involving representatives of the US Treasury, will now go to a ratification vote [...]

  • OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS

    May 21, 2009

    FILMTORMENTED Britain’s answer to the current vogue for teen slasher flicks. EVERLASTING MOMENTS Acclaimed Swedish period drama about a female photographer. THE GIRL CUT IN TWO The latest quirky film from French auteur director Claude Chabrol. DVDTHE READER Kate Winslet on Oscar-winning form as a former Nazi prison guard. SEVEN POUNDS Apallingly mawkish melodrama with [...]

  • Q & A : WHAT DOES S&P’S DECISION MEAN FOR THE UK

    May 21, 2009

    Q. WHAT EXACTLY HAS STANDARD & POOR’S DONE?A. It has downgraded its rating on Britain’s AAA rating, to “negative” from “stable”. Q. WHAT IS MEANT BY AN OUTLOOK DEFINITION?A. An S&P rating outlook assesses the potential direction in which a rating will move over the next six months to two years. “Negative” means it may [...]

  • Rio hit again as investors snub Chinalco

    May 21, 2009

    MINING giant Rio Tinto came under fire again yesterday over its controversial proposed tie-up with Chinalco. In the latest in a series of criticisms from shareholders and the Australian government, investors in Sydney called for changes to the proposed $19.5bn (£13.6bn) tie-up with the Chinese state-owned aluminium company. Shareholders object to the stake which Chinalco [...]

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