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Citywire Investment News

  • Nouriel Roubini: The US consumer will drag us back to recession
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:29:24 +0100
    Influential market commentator Nouriel Roubini (pictured) believes the US has ?run out of bullets? in its efforts to stimulate its economy and predicts that the US consumer will drag the global economy back into recession.
  • FTSE makes mild gains as US takes a holiday
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:16:47 +0100
    Global markets still gaining on Friday's better than expected US job figures, but gains expected to be tempered as US markets are closed for the Labor Day Holiday.

BBC News

  • NI school evacuated in bomb alert
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:24:23 GMT
    A primary school is closed in Antrim after a suspected pipe bomb is found by an eight-year-old pupil and carried into a classroom.
  • Mozambique arrests for food riots
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:22:21 GMT
    Police in Mozambique arrest 142 people over last week's riots which led to 10 deaths in the capital, Maputo.
  • Red Planet 'may not be lifeless'
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:18:12 GMT
    Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.
  • No 10 aide denies hacking claims
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:17:49 GMT
    Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was a tabloid editor.

BBC Business News

  • Chinese pilots lied about records
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:55:25 GMT
    China is checking the qualifications of all its commercial pilots, after it emerged that more than 200 of them lied about their experience.
  • Overseas demand 'boosts UK firms'
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:05:49 GMT
    Rising overseas demand has created buoyant conditions for manufacturers in the UK, an industry report suggests, though threats remain.
  • Tube strike disruption expected
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:08 GMT
    Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.
  • Demand for Equitable Life payout
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:52:39 GMT
    Pensioners hit by the Equitable Life scandal are making a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation.

Citywire News

  • FTSE makes mild gains as US takes a holiday
    Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:16:47 +0100
    Global markets still gaining on Friday's better than expected US job figures, but gains expected to be tempered as US markets are closed for the Labor Day Holiday.