Home prices up over year June 27, 2010 MONTHLY house price rises in England and Wales slowed marginally in June, but still took the annual rise in prices to the largest since January 2008, property data company Hometrack said today. The number of houses being put up for sale rose at a faster rate than the number of buyers, potentially limiting future price [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 27, 2010 THE SUNDAYS The Sunday Telegraph PRIVATE SECTOR WARNS ON PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS Leading companies have warned they will not be able to pick up the slack from the wide-scale job losses expected in the public sector. The warning raises concerns over a key part of the Chancellor’s spending cuts, which are based on the assumption [...]
Rail groups call for cuts review June 27, 2010 Train companies have called for a “swift and rigorous” review of existing rail investment to ensure that money is being spent in the interest of passengers and taxpayers. The Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) has written to the state transport minister, Theresa Villiers, and said that it accepts that the £8bn due to be [...]
Saudis shuns European debt June 27, 2010 Saudi Arabia does not intend to buy European sovereign debt, central bank chief Muhammad al-Jasser said in published remarks yesterday. “There are no plans to buy European sovereign debt,” Jasser was quoted as saying by Saudi al-Watan daily on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto. Leaders meeting in Toronto this weekend are seeking [...]
Corus boss to quit the firm he rescued June 27, 2010 CORUS boss Kirby Adams has announced his shock departure from the steel giant after turning around its fortunes in the wake of the financial meltdown. He will be replaced in October by Corus’ parent company Tata Steel’s chief financial officer Dr Karl-Ulrich Köhler. Adams was responsible for overseeing a sweeping restructuring of the business, which [...]
Insurance industry pleads to be excluded from bank levy June 27, 2010 IT WOULD be unfair to include insurance companies in the European Union’s proposed banking levy, industry supervisors said yesterday. Yoshihiro Kawai, secretary general of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, said the insurance industry should not be caught up in efforts to clamp down on banks in the wake of the financial crisis. EU leaders [...]
Boeing to probe 787 jet fleet June 27, 2010 Boeing will inspect its entire test fleet of 787 Dreamliners before further flights after identifying a “workmanship issue” that affects the jet’s horizontal stabilisers, the company said yesterday. Boeing said it expects the issue will be addressed within the existing programme schedule and that the 787 remains on track for the first delivery to All-Nippon [...]
WPP revenue up from World Cup June 27, 2010 The World Cup is expected to deliver strong revenue for WPP, the world’s largest advertising company, according to an interview with Bloomberg. Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum in Cape Town yesterday, chief executive officer Sir Martin Sorrell said that audiences have generally been strong and that sponsorship had been stronger than people had anticipated, [...]
Toy Story wins film battle June 27, 2010 The cartoon heroes of “Toy Story 3” crushed new releases from Adam Sandler and Tom Cruise to lead the North American box office for a second weekend, according to studio estimates issued yesterday. Toy Story 3, from Walt Disney’s Pixar Animation unit, sold about $59m (£39m) in tickets across the United States and Canada during [...]
Cable is cool on NewsCorp BSkyB probe June 27, 2010 VINCE Cable has said there “would need to be a lot of evidence” for him to become involved in NewsCorp’s attempt to acquire BSkyB, in remarks that are sure to alienate anti-Murdoch Liberal Democrats. As business secretary, Cable could announce an investigation into the takeover on public interest grounds. He would then have the ultimate [...]