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Citywire Investment News

  • Shell profits nearly double
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:00 +0100
    (Update) Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell said its profits had soared 94% in the second quarter thanks to oil price rises, production increases and cost-cutting.
  • Towergate launches RDR transition service
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:07:26 +0100
    Towergate Financial is to allow advisers access to its investment proposition and platform as part of a service to help firms prepare for the retail distribution review and improve client communication.

BBC Business News

  • Fugitive tycoon Nadir seeks bail
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:24:02 +0000
    Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, begins a legal bid to be granted bail ahead of a UK theft trial.
  • Oil firms' profits almost double
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:56:19 +0000
    Oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil see profits almost double in the week rival BP suffered record losses.
  • FSA tightens bankers' pay rules
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:13 +0000
    The Financial Services Authority announces plans to update its guidelines on bankers' pay, affecting 2,500 firms.

BBC News

  • Maze site set to be redeveloped
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:45:18 +0000
    An announcement is due on redeveloping the site of NI's former top security Maze prison, Martin McGuinness says.
  • Frenchwoman 'smothered newborns'
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:41:20 +0000
    Prosecutors say a Frenchwoman has admitted killing eight newborn babies after remains are found in a northern village but says her husband knew nothing.
  • 'Hijack' foiled at Moscow airport
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:39:49 +0000
    Russian security forces at Moscow's Domodedovo airport arrest a man suspected of trying to hijack a plane.

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