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“This comes despite ITV reporting a 6% rise in revenues to £450m in the first three months of 2009.”
“The increase was boosted by an 8% jump in television revenues.”
“ITV's statement hit its shares, which were trading down almost 7% at 56.80p at one stage.”
“He said revenues were still below 2008 levels.”
“HSBC's shares were the FTSE 100's biggest riser, trading up 5% at 660p.”
“the first quarterly profit since 2007”
“There were 35,682 personal insolvencies in the first three months of 2010, a 17.9% increase compared with the same period a year earlier.”
“rising by only 108 individuals since the last three months of 2009.”
“In the first three months of the year, there were 1,343 receiverships, administrations or company voluntary arrangements - all forms of corporate insolvency. This was down 8% on the previous quarter and a fall of 25% on the same period a y…”
“There were 4,082, 8% fewer than the previous three months and 18% down on the same quarter a year earlier.”
“There were 18,256 bankruptcies - the traditional way of dealing with overwhelming debt. This was down 10.7% on the same period the previous year, but up 7.3% on the previous quarter.”
“The new style of dealing with relatively small debts - Debt Relief Orders (DROs) - grew again to 5,644.”
“The number of Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), which see people come to an official deal with their creditors, stood at 11,782. This was up 20.1% on the same period a year earlier, but at the lowest level since the first three mon…”
“The cost of filing your own petition in bankruptcy rose from £510 to £600 in April, but this does not seem to have caused any reduction in the number of people filing their own petitions.”
“The data, from the Bank of England, showed that the number of mortgages approved to finance house purchases were 18% lower in the first three months of 2010 than in the last three months of 2009.”
“Sterling traded 0.2% higher against the dollar at $1.4789 having hit a 13-month low of $1.4475.”
“It also clawed back some losses against the euro but was still 1.4% lower at 1.159 euros.”
“UK shares fell sharply, with the FTSE 100 closing down 2.6%”
“Shares fell by as much as 9% in afternoon trading before recovering slightly.”
“Barclays finished 6% lower”
“Lloyds fell 5.5%”
“RBS was down 5.7%”
“France's Cac 40 index down 4.6%”
“Germany's Dax index down 3.3%”
“Japan's Nikkei closing down 3.1%”
“European leaders will meet later in Brussels to agree the final details of of a 110bn-euro ($139bn; £86bn) loan package to Greece”
“The bank announced attributable - or net - losses of £248m, a sharp improvement on £765m lost in the same quarter last year.”
“Charges for losses on bad debts fell 14%, though was still a hefty £2.7bn, down from £2.9bn.”
“He said better bad debt levels meant RBS was able to post an operating profit of £713m, against a loss of £1.35bn last time.”
“After one-off costs, including £500m paid into a government-backed insurance scheme for bad debts, RBS reported a pre-tax loss of £21m.”
“Profits from RBS's global banking and markets arm more than halved to £1.47bn from £3.47bn a year ago, when a sudden rebound in the capital markets lifted profits across the sector.”
“The UK taxpayer owns 84% of RBS after it was bailed out at the end of 2008.”
“Last week, Lloyds Banking Group, 43%-owned by the UK taxpayer, announced an unexpected return to profit in the first quarter, due in part to reductions in bad debts.”
“It's believed the eight sides would retain a 51% stake in a new franchise”
“The other 49% would be sold”
“A previous proposal suggested that each franchise could be sold for £50m”
“The tournament could generate £85m when sponsorship, broadcasting and match-day receipts are totted up”
“A previous proposal suggested that each franchise could be sold for £50m, and the tournament could generate £85m when sponsorship, broadcasting and match-day receipts are totted up.”
“At one point the Dow Jones was down by more than 9%, its worst fall since 1987, before starting to recover.”
“At close in New York the Dow Jones was down about 3.20%, the S&P down 3.24%, and Nasdaq 3.44%.”
“Shares in consulting firm Accenture fell to 4 cents after it had closed at $42.17 on Wednesday. It later rebounded and closed at $41.09, down just over $1.”
“As well as shares falling, bond prices increased and the dollar fell by 6% against the yen.”
“Oil prices also fell, to levels not seen since February, with benchmark crude losing $2.86 to settle at $77.11 a barrel in New York.”
“And Procter & Gamble was investigating the fall in its stock at one stage by 37%.”
“"We should be down big today, but not 1,000 points. This is an equity market structure issue, there's no major problem going on."”
“Public sector wages will be cut by 25% and all salaries, including the minimum one, will be affected.”
“Jobless benefits and pensions will be slashed by 15%.”
“Romania is the recipient of a 20bn-euro aid package from the IMF, the EU and the World Bank.”
“He also said that as part of negotiations with the IMF the country had narrowly avoided an increase in VAT from 19% to 24% and a rise in the tax on profits and income to 20% from 16%.”
“Meanwhile, the IMF said on Thursday it would extend a mission in Romania for two more days.”
“The IMF has cut its forecast for Romania's economic growth to 0.8% for this year, after the economy contracted 7.1% in 2009.”
“Although investor confidence in Hermes saw its shares rise by 2% on Thursday morning”
“National Australia Bank (NAB) said the amount the two had written off between October and March was down by 28% from the previous six months.”
“Profits at NAB's UK operations - which includes the two brands - rose by 11% to £264m, it added.”
“Overall, NAB saw profits fall by 21% - partly because it had cut customer fees in Australia.”
“It made 2.1bn Australian dollars ($1.92bn; £1.28bn) in the six months to 31 March.”
“NAB has about 2.7 million UK customers through Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, which incorporates the Yorkshire Bank brand.”
“The business has 340 branches across the two brands, employing more than 8,200 full time workers in the UK.”
“the amount the two had written off between October and March was down by 28% from the previous six months”
“Profits at NAB's UK operations - which includes the two brands - rose by 11% to £264m”
“Overall, NAB saw profits fall by 21%”
“It made 2.1bn Australian dollars ($1.92bn; £1.28bn) in the six months to 31 March”
“NAB has about 2.7 million UK customers through Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, which incorporates the Yorkshire Bank brand”
“The business has 340 branches across the two brands”
“employing more than 8,200 full time workers in the UK”
“Operating profit fell by 36% to 356.57bn yen ($3.8bn; £2.5bn) in the year to 31 March.”
“losing 7% of its share price after admitting a 3bn euro ($3.8bn; £2.6bn) exposure to Greek government debt.”
“BNP Paribas also said it had invested 5bn euros in Greece.”
“Allianz shares fell 6.5%”
“Barclays was the biggest faller on the London's FSTE-100 with a 6.5% drop.”
“The single European currency fell to a 14-month low against the dollar on Thursday afternoon, trading at $1.2703.”
“It was also trading at a nine-month low against the pound, with one pound buying 1.1746 euros.”
“Having announced that interest rates would remain at 1%”
“the UK government was expected to borrow the equivalent of 12% of GDP this year.”
“the Portuguese government said it planned to auction up to 1bn euros of bonds later this month.”
“Having announced that interest rates would remain at 1%, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said that restarting a programme to buy up government debt had not been considered.”
“US mortgage giant Freddie Mac saw a loss of $8bn (£5.3bn) in the first three months of 2010 and said it would ask for a further $10.6bn in state aid.”
“The new request brings the total cost for rescuing Freddie Mac to $61.3bn.”
“The latest $8bn loss was $6.7bn before adding a $1.3bn dividend payment on senior preferred shares owned by the US Treasury.”
“The firm has made a number of federal cash requests since it was taken over by regulators in September 2008.”
“The group had decided to concentrate on documenting the effects on the fishing industry because it would "suffer the biggest pain", she added. "They managed to rebuild after Katrina but now, not only can they not fish, they are going furth…”
“The firm's net profit for the first three months of the year came in at $475m (£314m), which was down from $716m a year earlier.”
“Revenue rose slightly to $8.3bn from $8.2bn a year earlier.”
“The company suffered from a $419m one-off charge in the quarter related to repayment and refinancing costs of the deal that brought the two brewers together in 2008.”
“net profit came in at 1.1bn euros ($1.4bn; £0.9bn), compared with a 278m euro loss for the same period a year ago”
“its exposure to Greek government debt is 3bn euros”
“Shares in SocGen fell almost 6% on Tuesday as banking stocks were hit by renewed concerns about high European debt levels”
“The bank's shares rebounded by more than 3% after the results announcement”
“In January 2008, it reported a loss of 4.9bn euros, which it blamed on unauthorised deals made by former trader Jerome Kerviel”
“Shares in SocGen fell almost 6% on Tuesday”
“It expects to raise an extra £10bn in income tax in 2010-11, nearly all from 40% and 50% rate taxpayers.”
“The figures indicate that the 13,000 people earning at least £1m a year will also pay, on average, just over £1m each in income tax.”
“If personal allowances and tax bands remain frozen, more people will be dragged into the higher rate bands, he said.”
“It predicts that this financial year, the total number of income tax payers will rise by 400,000 to 30.6 million.”
“There will be a modest 100,000 increase in the number of basic rate payers to 26.4 million, who together will pay an extra £1.2bn, thus handing over a total of £68.1bn.”
“But the number of people in the 40% higher rate band and new 50% additional rate bracket will jump by 192,000 to 3.412 million.”
“The 40% higher tax rate is levied on taxable incomes above £37,400 and the 50% rate is now levied on taxable incomes above £150,000 a year.”
“Fiscal drag really is a chancellor's best friend," says John Whiting, director of tax policy at the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).”
“Add in the effect of gradually eroding the personal income tax allowance for people earning more than £100,000 and there is a big increase in the tax take, especially for those at the top end of the scale.”
“Whereas last year higher-rate payers handed over £84bn in income tax to the Revenue (56% of the total)”
