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“both markets fell today, by 1% and 0.7% respectively”
“issue being two-and-half times oversubscribed”
“government wanted to borrow £2.25bn, while investors offered to lend £5.6bn”
“pound rose above $1.50 following the resignation of Gordon Brown, having reached a low of around $1.4725 earlier in the day”
“against the euro, the pound also rose to 1.1793 euros”
“The poll of 1,265 people for Co-operative Bank found.”
“One in 10 people are not very aware how much money is in their main bank account, a survey has suggested.”
“One in three said they were "extremely certain" how much was in their current account.”
“The survey found that 6.8% of those asked were "not very certain" how much money was in their most regularly used bank account. Another 2.2% were "not very certain at all", and another 1.4% had no idea how much was in their account.”
“Those aged over 55 had the biggest proportion of respondents (40%) who were "extremely certain" how much was in their account.”
“A quarter of all those asked said they knew to within £10 how much was in their account.”
“In the six months to 31 March 2010, the group's net earnings fell by 32% to 95.2m euros ($121m; £82m) from sales that were down by 7%.”
“It says that losses from software piracy amounted to $51.4bn (£34.8bn) in 2009.”
“BSA's vice-president, Jeffrey Hardee said that a 10 percentage point reduction in software piracy in the Asia Pacific region would "directly contribute" 41 billion dollars to the region's economies.”
“Customers were given back £284m in the second half of 2009”
“Banks and building societies dealt with 2,014,000 complaints, up from 867,427 in the first half of the year.”
“This was because they were finally allowed to process more than a million complaints about overdraft charges.”
“These had been on hold since the middle of 2007, pending the outcome of a high-profile legal test case.”
“This was finally resolved last November in favour of the banks, when the Supreme Court ruled against an attempt by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to challenge the fairness of bank overdraft charges using existing consumer protection laws.”
“The complaints were put on hold with an FSA waiver for the duration of the test case between the OFT and major banks, which ended last December, "the FSA explained.”
“Overall, the financial services industry received nearly 2.7 million complaints in the last six months of 2009, up from 1,510,886 in the first half of the year.”
“This was the largest number since the initial surge of bank overdraft complaints hit the industry in the first half of 2007, when in total just over two million complaints were received.”
“After banking services, the next largest category of business that upset customers was general insurance and pure protection, which generated 421,368 complaints, up from 337,000 in the previous six months.”
“Banks, building societies and other sellers of insurance repaid £144m to customers in the last half of 2009 as a direct result of their complaints, out of a total of £284m redress paid to buyers of all types of financial product.”
“Of the insurance complaints, 174,000 related to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.”
“if the holiday was booked on a credit card, then people might have a claim through their credit card provider for costs of over £100. This comes under section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act”
“Anyone claiming would need to have bought the policy and made their bookings before the strike dates were announced, the Association of British Insurers says.”
“Output rose by 2.0% compared with February, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.”
“Analysts had expected a 0.3% rise.”
“The ONS estimated that the data would add 0.1 percentage points to the UK's first-quarter GDP growth - initially estimated at 0.2%.”
“Manufacturing output rose by 2.3% on a month-on-month basis.”
“But its chief economist, Lee Hopley, said that a 'credible plan to repair the public finances' was needed to 'both reassure financial markets and underpin a sustainable recovery'.”
“In the three months to the end of March, Toyota made profits of 112bn yen ($1.2bn; £810m) a rebound from a 766bn yen loss for the period in 2009.”
“For the year to the end of March Toyota made 209bn yen, a sharp reversal from the 437bn yen loss in the year before.”
“Revenues for the fourth quarter were 5.28 trillion yen, up from 3.54 trillion yen a year earlier when the global recession was at its deepest.”
“Toyota also announced that it was forecasting better financial results for the next fiscal year, with profits of about 310bn yen.”
“Last month, Honda reported an operating profit of 96bn yen for the January to March period”
“while in the US Ford reported a larger-than-expected $2.1bn quarterly net profit.”
“In London, shares fell 1% after rising 5% on Monday”
“in Paris, they lost 0.7% after soaring 9% the previous day”
“the issue being two-and-half times oversubscribed”
“The government wanted to borrow £2.25bn, while investors offered to lend £5.6bn.”
“The pound initially fell against the dollar, losing almost half a cent to $1.4815 by 1200 BST, but then rose sharply to $1.4935.”
“It has also continued to strengthen against the euro to 1.1753 euros, as the eurozone currency lost ground after Monday's gains.”
“the 750bn-euro ($975bn; £650bn) loan‑guarantee deal”
“April's consumer prices were up 2.8% from a year ago, the highest rate in 18 months, and property inflation hit 12.8%, China's statistics bureau said.”
“New bank lending of 774bn yuan ($8.4bn; £5.65bn) exceeded predictions.”
“Many analysts had forecast an inflation rate of 2.7%.”
“Industrial output rose 17.8% year-on-year in April, while retail sales were up 18.5% to 1.15 trillion yuan.”
“China's economy grew at an annual rate of 11.9% in the first quarter, driven by Beijing's 4 trillion yuan stimulus package.”
“The cost of transporting gas through the South Stream pipeline would be three times higher than via Ukraine”
“It would take several years to build the underwater pipeline at an estimated cost of 25bn euros ($32bn, £21bn)”
“The cost of transporting gas through the South Stream pipeline would be three times higher than via Ukraine," Mr Korchemkin told the BBC”
“According to estimates, the size of the Ukrainian firm might be between 5% to 10% of Gazprom's market capitalisation, which stood at $140bn when Mr Putin made his offer”
“According to estimates, the size of the Ukrainian firm might be between 5% to 10% of Gazprom's market capitalisation, which stood at $140bn when Mr Putin made his offer.”
“The UK's Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to pay $500m (£336m) to end a money laundering case involving ABN Amro - the lender it bought in 2007.”
“US officials said ABN had helped banks and individuals from countries including Iran and Libya channel money through the US banking system over a 10-year period.”
“Fannie Mae has asked for another $8.4bn (£5.6bn) in state aid”
“The company said it lost $13.1bn in the first three months of the year”
“That is down from the $16.3bn loss it reported for the last quarter of 2009.”
“So far the government has contributed $83.6bn to the bail-out of Fannie Mae.”
“The cost of bailing out both institutions now totals nearly $145bn”
“Fannie Mae said it saw 'no end in sight' for government financial assistance.”
“Earlier this month, Freddie Mac asked for a further $8bn”
“Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is to cut a further 2,600 UK jobs over the next year. Most of the losses are in its insurance division, with 600 posts going at the head office of its retail banking arm.”
“It had already announced almost 20,000 job losses across its business worldwide since the bail-out.”
“RBS's insurance arm includes the Direct Line, Green Flag, Churchill and Privilege businesses and employs 16,000 people.”
“which left RBS 84%-owned by the taxpayer.”
“The bank has been trying to cut costs since the massive government bail-out to save it from collapse in 2007, which left RBS 84%-owned by the taxpayer.”
“Interest rates have now been 0.5% since March 2009.”
“Credit cards have become more expensive to use, with the average rate rising from 15.7% in March last year to 16.5% in March this year”
“The average cost of an overdraft has also risen, from 18.6% to 19%.”
“Two-year fixed-rate mortgages, with a 25% deposit, rose from 4% last March to 4.5% last September, but have subsided gently since then to stand at 3.9% in March this year.”
“five-year fixed-rate mortgages with a 25% deposit jumping in June last year from 5% to 5.5% and hovering around that level ever since.”
“Standard variable rates for home loans have been much more stable and currently stand at 4%.”
“The average cash ISA offers 0.5% - the same as base rate itself”
“branch-based instant access accounts offer even less - just 0.2%.”
“UK interest rates have been kept on hold at a record low of 0.5% by the Bank of England.”
“Interest rates have now been 0.5% since March 2009”
“The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the first three months of this year”
“In the final three months of 2009, the economy grew by 0.4%.”
“The UK emerged from recession in the final quarter of last year, after six consecutive quarters of contraction.”
“Although the UK inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before”
“European governments and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have stunned global stock markets with a 750bn-euro ($975bn; £650bn) package of standby funds designed to see off financial meltdown.”
“The 27 countries of the European Union (EU) will contribute 500bn euros towards the financial safety net. They have been joined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is providing another 250bn euros.”
“The vast bulk of Europe's contribution comes from the 16-nation eurozone bloc, which is promising 440bn in loan guarantees.”
“The European Commission is providing 60bn euros immediately.”
“It is thought that if countries being loaned money defaulted the total UK liability could be about £15bn, though about £7bn of this money was pledged to a previous bail-out fund.”
“In an interview with the BBC he suggested that the UK was providing an additional £8bn in new money through its IMF and European Commission contribution.”
“Crucially, the European Central Bank is to start buying bonds - government debt - something the European Central Bank said it would never do when it was established.”
“However, the ECB will not be pumping fresh money into ailing economies. The ECB's purchase of bonds will be matched by the selling of other securities.”
“The 60bn euros in emergency lending is available immediately and can be drawn on now by countries such as Spain and Portugal.”
“But a special purpose vehicle to dish out 440bn euros in bilateral loan guarantees will take longer to set up.”
“Share prices across Asia and Europe surged on news of the package, and the euro strengthened.”
“The group of wealthy businessmen is believed to value the club at no more than £1bn.”
“United, valued at £1.2bn by US business magazine Forbes”
“They believe one billion is the true value for the club.”
“founded in 1878”
“Last month, BAA said the closure of Heathrow and Stansted had cost it £28m.”
“The company sold Gatwick airport for £1.5bn last year.”
