ELECTION2010 April 13, 2010 Poll shows eight point Tory lead Today’s YouGov poll for the Sun shows Labour losing further ground as it drops two points to 31 per cent, showing no obvious boost after its manifesto launch. The Tories are unchanged at 39 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats also unchanged at 20 per cent. Sugar makes Labour [...]
Should there be a cap on immigration? April 13, 2010 THE TORIES unveiled their election manifesto yesterday, but we want to know what you think of two policies that could affect the City – a cap on some immigration and the scrapping of the retirement age. The Tories are planning to set an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted in the [...]
CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO | AT A GLANCE April 13, 2010 Economy • Safeguard Britain’s credit rating with a credible plan to eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a Parliament. • Cut wasteful government spending to bring the deficit down and restore stability. • Increase spending on health in real terms every year and honour our commitments on international aid. Financial regulation • Enable [...]
Smartphone sales hit 180m April 13, 2010 A staggering 180m smartphones were shipped worldwide last year as the market continued to evolve at a blistering pace. Sales are expected to leap to almost 400m units a year by 2014, according to the research from Parks Associates. By then smartphones will be the industry standard, the market researcher says. The number of smartphone [...]
Tullow Oil strikes black gold at Kasamene field in Uganda April 13, 2010 FUEL exploration heavyweight Tullow Oil yesterday announced the discovery of oil at the Kasamene field in Uganda. The FTSE 100-listed group confirmed both the Kasamene-3 and Kasamene-3A wells in the Butiaba region of Uganda Block 2 made a discovery along the Wahrindi North fault block, bringing the country one step closer to its first oil [...]
Africa oil exploration market is set to boom April 13, 2010 TULLOW yesterday moved one step closer to drawing oil from its Kasamene field in Uganda. News that it has found oil over 2km from the original discovery well suggests that the field could end up producing far more than expected. Elsewhere in Africa, things are also looking good. It is in talks to buy two [...]
House prices fall as lending levels pick up April 13, 2010 HOUSE price rises in the UK have started to slow, while mortgage lending continues to rise. According to data published yesterday by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), house prices only rose by 2.9 per cent during the quarter ending February 2010, a fall compared with the previous quarter when prices rose by [...]
UK goods trade deficit smallest since mid-2006 April 13, 2010 BRITAIN’S goods trade deficit narrowed sharply in February to its smallest since June 2006, after exports rebounded strongly from weather-related weakness in January, official statistics showed yesterday. Britain’s goods trade gap with the rest of the world fell to £6.179bn in February, much narrower than the £7.35bn economists had forecast and down from January’s 17-month [...]
CITY VIEWS: WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN TO HOUSE PRICES THIS YEAR? April 13, 2010 NEEL SHAH | AMLIN “House prices will go up because the pessimism in the market is going. With the election and the likelihood of a new government, morale will certainly be boosted in the housing market.” NURIA VEGAS SALA | URIA MENENDEZ “The housing market is going to stabilise and there won’t be a big [...]
Former WaMu boss says bank seizure unfair April 13, 2010 THE former chief executive of Washington Mutual yesterday accused the US government of unfairly seizing the bank in September 2008 and selling it for the bargain price of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) to JP Morgan. Kerry Killinger said the failed lender “should have been given a chance to work its way through the crisis” in testimony prepared [...]