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    • Feeling tempted to cancel it now but scared that some of the debts will do more Ccj on me and I'll have to wait 6 years again.  2 of the Ccj come of this year and then I'll only have the iva in credit file - so effectivly if I'd have not took out the iva I 2021 I'd have clear score by now - but then again would I because I would have been hounded the last 3 years so as bad as it is it's saves me lots of headaches whilst my debt was still within the 6 year mark.  I think most of them are near there but in all honesty no point chasing them if I do cancel iva I'd jjst wait for the ones who contact me and then start the relevant letter process on them.  Of over 6 years easy if not still possible to write off.    My true victory would be having the iva wiped off my credit file as misold or something that way I. Don't have to wait till 2027 Other option is to fight back and ask for them to offer the creditors to accept payments so far and use the following method    Will your IVA firm agree to complete your IVA on the basic of funds paid to date? The Guidance lists a lot of factors to be considered in deciding whether a settlement on the basis of funds paid to date should be proposed. You should read the list. But that may not give you any feel for whether they apply to you or not. The following are my thoughts on when an IVA should be treated as settled, not failed. They assume that you have £75 or less to pay a month: if you would currently qualify for a Debt Relief Order, then your IVA should be settled now  There is no point in making your IVA fail and you have to apply for a DRO – it will not generate another penny for your creditors. If you are renting and owe less than £50,000, check the DRO criteria now and talk to National Debtline on 0808 808 4000 about whether you qualify. You may have been told at the start of your IVA that you aren’t eligible – still check now as the DRO criteria have changed, your situation has got worse, and some people were given incorrect information about DROs at the start. if you have no assets that would be realised in bankruptcy (eg a house with equity, car worth over £2000), then your IVA should be settled now Same as (1), there is no point in making you apply for bankruptcy after your IVA fails. if your only asset is a car that is worth less than £8000, then your IVA should be settled now A car that is worth say £5000 would normally be sold in bankruptcy and you would be given a small amount to buy a cheaper car. But your creditors would not get any benefit from this as the Insolvency Service takes the first £8000 raised to cover its own costs. if you have significant assets, the closer you are to the end of the IVA, the less reasonable it is to fail it If you have been paying your IVA for 4 years, you have done your best over a long period. It isn’t your fault you can no longer continue. The fact you may have had equity to release isn’t relevant as that simply isn’t going to be possible. if your situation will clearly improve soon, then it’s unlikely your IVA will be settled I mean real improvements, not hoping that prices fall. If I can get them to accept payment to date or threaten with cancellation hopefully they may accept it -    Other option is to try and borrow money and pay make a full and final offer    Or I can just ignore and hope for the best which I'm very tempted to do especially if they respond to my review with bullying tactics despite me being skint as a fart with no mortgage as renting    It's so stressful but I've just checked the iva agreement from 2021 and it's Cabot 2 account Lowel about 5 accounts and then lots of repeats of the same debt with for example zopa and Cabot same amount listed twice -  also loyyds banks but I'm sure that's older than 6 years and not on credit file anyway    If I can somehow remove the iva from my creitt file I'd be happy   
    • Sorry I meant credit fix - I really wish I'd known this before - kicking myself right now  If they come back to me asking for more money I'll cancel it and start trying to deal with the debt myself let's see what they say 
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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Just had my nationwide AGM voting form in.

 

There is one box on the form for 'Special resolutions'

 

which I assume is for us to agree to allow the nationwide to operate like a bank, effectively.

 

This has been keep fairly quiet but is very important people vote against it.

 

The nationwide is not a bank.

 

Please, spread the word, vote no for special resolution. If not the nationwide could be lost forever.

 

If you read the small print the document tells you, near the back what the special resolution means. From what I can tell its to allow them to raise capital from core 1 investors. Currently they are not allowed to do this. No bad thing in my book as the nationwide is a building society.

 

I am very suspicious now of the nationwide due to how this has been presented.

 

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The Executive Directors pay in 2011: between £859K and £1.96M each.

 

Members have the option to vote against approving the Directors Remuneration Report. Clearly I have voted against, I wouldn't get out of bed for that, so how can we expect these characters to run a bank for that pittance? Sorry, I mean a building society.

 

Some information for anyone with Nationwide.

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Invensys stays silent as shares soar amid bid rumours

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

Company refuses to issue statement after reports of possible US takeover

 

 

Banks fear Moody's credit rating cut

 

21 June 2012 04:30 PM

Some of Britain's biggest banks are reportedly facing credit rating cuts as early as tonight in a move which will stretch lenders' already taut finances.

 

 

 

'Two-tier' bank number revealed

 

21 June 2012 07:30 AM

Many leading banks, insurers and energy companies are making existing customers pay to phone them while offering free numbers to new customers, a watchdog has found.

 

 

 

Fall in jobless rate provides glimmer of economic hope

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

The economy continued to create jobs in the three months to April, despite the double-dip recession, official figures showed yesterday.

 

 

 

Coup for embattled Sir Martin Sorrell as WPP swoops for a majority stake in AKQA

 

21 June 2012 10:00 AM

The British founders of AKQA, the world's biggest independent digital advertising agency, are celebrating after Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP bought a majority stake which values the business at around $540m (£343m).

 

 

 

BAE wins £500m Norwegian army deal

 

21 June 2012 01:15 PM

Defence giant BAE Systems has won a £500 million contract to build and upgrade armoured vehicles for the Norwegian army.

 

 

 

Manufacturers boost recovery hopes

 

21 June 2012 12:05 PM

Hopes for the economic recovery were boosted today as a business survey showed an unexpected improvement in orders and confidence in the manufacturing sector.

 

 

 

Heavy discounting and promotions boost retails sales

 

21 June 2012 09:36 AM

Heavy discounting and promotions at department stores helped pull in cash-strapped consumers and push up retail sales last month, official figures showed today.

 

 

 

MPC minutes show Bank leaning towards extra money printing

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

The Bank of England's Governor Sir Mervyn King dramatically pressed for an extra £50bn to be pumped into the economy this month as the eurozone crisis intensified.

 

 

 

Sage buys into Brics with Brazil deal

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

Sage, the accountancy software group, made its first foray into the world's fast-growing Bric nations yesterday with a £125m deal to buy a Brazilian rival.

 

 

 

Permira puts a €2.8bn price tag on Iglo

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

Permira, the owner of the frozen foods giant Iglo, is looking for a price of €2.8bn (£2.2bn) from bidders for the business.

 

 

 

Bank regulator warns hedge funds of crunch clampdown

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

The Bank of England regulator Robert Jenkins yesterday warned senior hedge fund managers to beware of a potential massive clampdown on their trading activities if the eurozone crisis triggers a return to the kind of liquidity crunch that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

 

 

 

Queues for Marni make H&M smarter

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

Hundreds of shoppers queued through the night to buy H&M's Marni collection this spring, helping the world's second-biggest fashion chain to post a 20 per cent rise in profit to 5.2bn kronor (£473m) for the three months to June.

 

 

 

Rio's $3.7bn iron ore expansion plan

 

21 June 2012 12:00 AM

The mining titan Rio Tinto has set out plans to spend $3.7bn (£2.4 bn) on expanding its iron ore operations in Pilbara, Western Australia.

 

 

 

James Packer sells to Rupert Murdoch in News Corp's Oz TV coup

 

21 June 2012 11:30 AM

Rupert Murdoch, the man who bet his empire on the future success of Sky TV and won, has expanded his television interests with a A$2bn (£1.3bn) bid for the Australian sports broadcaster Consolidated Media Holdings.

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Many customers with RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank accounts have been hit by technical problems which hit online services and account balances.

 

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An independent audit of Spain's banks finds that they need up to 62bn euros (£50bn) in extra funding.

 

 

 

Farepak judge partly blames bank New

 

A High Court judge partly blames the "hardball" attitude of the HBOS bank group for the collapse of Farepak in 2006, and says it should return up to £10m to customers.

 

 

 

Eurozone in crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Struggling Spanish banks need capital buffer of up to €62bn

 

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Bank of Spain says indepedent audits of country's ailing lenders' shows capital shortfall will be more than covered by €100bn EU bailout fund as weak global data drags down markets.

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German court delays eurozone's €500bn bail-out fund

 

 

Spanish banks need up to €62bn to withstand economic shocks

 

 

Greek govenment seeks two-year extension to bailout

 

 

Germany falters as eurozone slowdown deepens

 

 

UK manufacturing sector improves in June, CBI says

 

 

 

 

Debt crisis: Moody's to downgrade UK banks

 

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Downgrade expected as early as this evening, as part of a broader credit downgrade of some of the world's major banks.

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Xstrata's £173m bonus payments condemned

 

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Xstrata's lavish £173m bonus pay-out to management has been roundly condemned by the Association of British Insurers for being excessive and a breach of best practice.

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Xstrata puts copper project up for sale

 

 

 

HBOS 'should repay millions' to Farepak savers

 

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HBOS should repay millions of pounds it collected from depositors in failed Christmas saving company Farepak in the knowledge the company was heading for insolvency, a High Court judge said.

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MPs attack banks over swap mis-selling

 

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A parliamentary debate on interest swap mis-selling saw MPs attack banks, including Barclays, HSBC and RBS, over the way they sold the product to customers

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Future of High Street is not shopping - Dixons

 

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Sebastian James, the new boss of Dixons Retail, has said the high street will no longer the place consumers do their shopping, as he announced a further cull of the company’s town-centre shops.

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Invensys says Emerson talks failed

 

Shares in Invensys jumped 27pc on speculation Emerson Electric could bid for the engineer, but Invensys said talks with the US giant had finished.

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UK manufacturing sector improves in June, CBI says

 

 

 

China manufacturing contracts for eighth month

 

 

 

 

Greek govenment seeks two-year extension to bailout

 

Markets bet Germany will be dragged down with everyone else

 

Farepak farce heaps humiliation on Cable and his Insolvency Service

 

Perils of a half-baked rescue for Spain and Italy

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Car Survey Shows Fewer Complaints but More With Personal Electronics

 

By BILL VLASIC

 

 

The latest automotive quality survey released on Wednesday by the research firm J. D. Power & Associates showed that consumers were reporting fewer overall problems with new vehicles.

 

 

 

 

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Debt Crisis in Europe

 

Spanish Banks May Need Up to $78 Billion of Capital

 

By REUTERS 12:17 PM ET

 

Spain’s banks would need between 51 billion and 62 billion euros ($64 billion to $78 billion) in extra capital to weather a serious downturn of the economy, audits showed on Thursday.

 

Spanish Bond Sale Reveals Fragility of Economy

 

By RAPHAEL MINDER and STEPHEN CASTLE

 

The Spanish Treasury sold more bonds than expected amid strong demand, but at sharply higher rates, in the latest test of the country's market credibility.

 

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France and Germany Face Delicate Talks Over Economy

 

By STEVEN ERLANGER 46 minutes ago

 

François Hollande, France’s new president, is determined to stand up to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in pushing for growth over austerity, but the countries’ relationship is much more nuanced.

 

 

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Stocks Post Sharp Losses

 

By REUTERS 1 minute ago

 

On Wall Street, stocks added to losses on Thursday after new data heightened concerns about a softening global economy.

 

 

Supreme Court Rejects F.C.C. Fines for Indecency

 

By ADAM LIPTAK 12:15 PM ET

 

The Supreme Court declined to address whether the government had the authority to regulate indecency on broadcast TV, but excused two broadcasters from fines for cursing and nudity.

 

Chesapeake Names Ex-Conoco Chief Dunham Chairman

 

By REUTERS 59 minutes ago

 

Chesapeake Energy Corp said on Thursday that its board named former ConocoPhillips Chairman Archie Dunham as its new chairman, replacing Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon.

 

Air France Plans to Cut 10 Percent of Its Work Force

 

By NICOLA CLARK 23 minutes ago

 

The airline hopes the job cuts can be made voluntarily, but it warned it could have to resort to firings if the unions reject the proposals.

 

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Anna Schwartz, Economist Who Collaborated With Friedman, Dies at 96

 

By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr. 1:03 PM ET

 

An economist, Mrs. Schwartz wrote, with Milton Friedman, “A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960” and “Monetary Statistics of the United States: Estimates, Sources, Methods.”

 

The Caucus

 

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Commerce Secretary Resigns

 

By PETER BAKER 12:26 PM ET

 

John E. Bryson announced his resignation as President Obama's commerce secretary on Thursday following an incident in which he had a seizure and was involved in a sequence of automobile accidents.

 

 

 

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Spain to seek bank aid as borrowing costs soar

 

7:18pm BST

MADRID/LUXEMBOURG - Spain's medium-term borrowing costs spiralled to a euro-era record on Thursday and independent auditors said Spanish banks may need up to 62 billion euros (49.96 billion pounds) in extra capital, to be filled mostly by a euro zone bailout.

 

BP warns TNK-BP bosses, partners on governance - sources

 

LONDON - BP has asked executives and fellow shareholders in its Russian oil joint venture TNK-BP to stop taking decisions the British group believes need board approval, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

 

Closer Opel-Peugeot ties cloud BMW hybrid JV

 

MUNICH/PARIS - A joint venture to make hybrid car components between France's PSA Peugeot Citroen and Germany's BMW was thrown into doubt by the prospect of deepening ties between the French auto maker and its European rival Opel.

7:04pm BST

 

Air France to cut 5,000 jobs

 

PARIS - Air France announced more than 5,000 job losses under a cost-cutting plan on Thursday, creating a political headache for new President Francois Hollande.

Aerospace & Defence 6:07pm BST

 

EU agency raps Roche over lax drug-safety reporting

 

LONDON - The European Medicines Agency said on Thursday it was investigating deficiencies in medicine-safety reporting by Swiss drugmaker Roche , following an inspection by British regulators that highlighted shortcomings.

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Retail sales bounce gives UK economy a lift

 

LONDON - Retail sales bounced back in May after a dismal April as sunnier weather encouraged shoppers to buy clothes and shoes, raising hope that the country may yet avoid a longer slump.

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Oh Oh... Greece Raises The Reparations Claim

Now this has potential to get interesting...

"We don't owe the Germans money, they owe us," he told Reuters in an interview in his central Athens office, sitting in front of a line of campaign posters for his radical
Syriza
bloc, which placed second in last Sunday's Greek parliament election.

"The total they owe us is 162 billion euros without interest. If you add 3 percent interest, it's more than a trillion euros. But we can accept a haircut on the interest."

Actually, there's a problem here -- his accounting appears to count inflation twice.

 

More at the link.

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Claims: What, They're Not Dropping?!

 

It isn't coming down, is it?

In the week ending June 16, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted
initial claims
was 387,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 389,000. The 4-week moving average was 386,250, an increase of 3,500 from the previous week's revised average of 382,750.

Well, no, it's not. And that's a problem.

 

More at the link.

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Oh, So Italy IS In Trouble?

 

This should be good for Confidence, especially after Monti (Hall?) was running around telling everyone that Italy was "just fine" and "didn't need help."

LOS CABOS, Mexico, June 19 (Reuters) - Italy put forward a proposal at a G20 summit in Mexico on Tuesday for the euro zone's rescue funds to start buying the debt of distressed European countries, and the idea is expected to be discussed at a meeting of leaders in Rome on Friday.

The Italian proposal foresees using the EU's rescue funds, known as the EFSF and the ESM, to buy bonds of countries such as Spain and Italy in the secondary market to help bring down bond yields and lower refinancing costs.

So we've gone beyond "liar liar pants on fire!" to "and behind Door #1 we have...."

You know the jackass is back there too.

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European leaders meet in Rome to ease debt crisis

 

 

The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain gathered in Rome today to seek agreement on ways to pull Europe out of its crippling debt crisis.

 

 

RBS and NatWest problems will last until Monday

 

Simon Read: Taxpayer-owned RBS is facing growing unrest as it admitted that it will be “Monday at the earliest” before problems are solved.

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Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande meet other European leaders to discuss debt crisis

 

22 June 2012 01:09 PM

The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain gathered in Rome today to seek agreement on ways to pull Europe out of its crippling debt crisis.

 

 

Shrinking eurozone economy ratchets up crisis

 

22 June 2012 12:00 AM

PMI survey points to deepening contraction, while survey of Madrid banks calls for €62bn recapitalisation

 

 

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Take That on taxman's hit list after Jimmy Carr tweets: I'm so sorry

 

22 June 2012 08:00 AM

HMRC vows to claw back millions lost to avoidance schemes, but PM stands accused of hypocrisy

 

 

 

Moody's downgrade for UK banks raises fears of credit crunch

 

22 June 2012 08:15 AM

Some of the world's biggest banks – including Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland – had their credit ratings downgraded last night as a result of the eurozone crisis.

 

 

 

NatWest customers urged to keep records

 

22 June 2012 03:00 PM

Customers affected by NatWest's IT meltdown have been urged to keep a record of what happened and how they were left out of pocket.

 

 

 

Potato buyer jailed for £9m Sainsbury's potato [problem]

 

22 June 2012 03:27 PM

A Sainsbury's potato buyer who funded a millionaire's lifestyle by taking part in a [problem] that stole money from the supermarket giant was jailed for four years today.

 

 

 

Natwest and RBS 'working round the clock' to fix technical problems

 

22 June 2012 02:16 PM

A banking group said it is "working round the clock" to fix technical problems for NatWest customers before the weekend begins.

 

 

 

300 jobs at risk as MoD air tanker work moved to Spain

 

22 June 2012 12:12 PM

More than 300 jobs are facing the axe after it emerged work on air tanker refuelling planes for the Ministry of Defence will be moved to Spain.

 

 

 

ABI pay alarm clouds Glencore-Xstrata merger plan

 

22 June 2012 12:00 AM

The proposed £57bn mega-merger of the mining and commodity giants Glencore and Xstrata was dealt a further blow yesterday as a key shareholder body condemned the companies' plan to pay key executives £170m just to keep them at the combined group if the deal goes through.

 

 

 

Eurozone leaves Dixons with £120m loss

 

22 June 2012 07:30 AM

Dixons Retail, the owner of Currys and PC World, blamed hefty write-downs on the value of its struggling Italian and Greek businesses for a painful full-year loss of nearly £120m.

 

 

 

Apple fined over Australia iPad trouble

 

22 June 2012 08:45 AM

Apple advertised its latest iPad "with WiFi + 4G" worldwide but seems to have forgotten to check.

 

 

 

Shop Direct names head of RBS's Lombard Alex Baldock as its new chief

 

22 June 2012 08:00 AM

Shop Direct, the online retailer owned by Sir David (pictured, left) and Sir Frederick Barclay, has hired the managing director of a Royal Bank of Scotland division as its new chief executive.

 

 

 

Boots seeks deal with Budgens

 

22 June 2012 08:00 AM

Alliance Boots, the high street chemist that is selling nearly half the company to the US firm Walgreens, is in talks with the group behind the grocer Budgens about stocking its food products in Boots' outlets.

 

 

 

Invensys dives after Emerson walks away

 

22 June 2012 12:00 AM

Shares in Invensys tumbled by 14 per cent yesterday, after it was forced to make an embarrassing U-turn and admit US giant Emerson had made a £2bn-plus bid approach but gone away.

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Thousands of NatWest customers are still affected by computer problems, leading the bank to take the unusual step of opening on Sunday.

 

 

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The leaders of the eurozone's four biggest nations, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, agree a package to boost economic output by 1%.

 

 

 

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A wind turbine company pulls out of plans to set up a manufacturing plant in Kent which was to have created about 1,600 jobs.

 

 

Eurozone in crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Eurozone 'Big Four' want €130bn growth package to boost economy

 

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The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain have announced plan for a growth package in Rome worth 1pc of eurozone GDP to create jobs and drive growth in the region's ailing economy.

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Debt crisis: Spain to request bailout on Monday

 

 

Euro crisis 'domino effect' fears hit German confidence

 

 

Risk of Greek blackouts increases as traders cut or halt power supplies

 

 

FTSE falls on slowdown fears, but shrugs off Moody's downgrade

 

 

 

 

Jim O'Neill would shake up Bank of England

 

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Jim O'Neill, the Goldman Sachs banker touted as a future Governor of the Bank of England, would want to change the Bank's mandate if he got the job.

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RBS and Moody's clash over rating downgrade

 

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Taxpayer-owned bank disagrees with the ratings change, claiming the ratings cut did not give enough credit for the "substantial improvements" it had made to its balance sheet.

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Moody's downgrade of banks to hit families

 

 

Moody's bank downgrades: reaction

 

 

 

Bleasdale fails in £12m sex discrimination case

 

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Kate Bleasdale, the colourful entrepreneur who was sacked from the company she set up Healthcare Locums, over “serious accounting irregularities” has failed in her attempt to sue the business for unfair dismissal.

 

Iceland hails record results as profits rise 14pc

 

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Iceland Foods hailed its seventh consecutive set of record results since founder Malcolm Walker returned as chief executive, as it posted a 14pc increase in pre-tax profits, to £147.5m.

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Jail for men behind Sainsbury's potato fraud

 

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Three senior businessmen who cooked up elaborate scheme to siphon £9m from Sainsbury’s are jailed.

 

Qantas warns government 'we could go under'

 

 

 

 

M&S loses head of menswear to Bhs

 

Debt crisis: Spain to request bailout on Monday

 

 

 

IMF unveils blueprint to salvage stricken euro

 

 

 

 

Debt crisis: as it happened - June 21, 2012

 

Desperate Monti needs Merkel summit deal to stop revolt at home

 

Here's one reason the economy could soon be looking up

 

House prices could fall by 11pc, predicts Coutts

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Euro's big four agree growth boost, split on bonds

 

6:21pm BST

ROME - German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure on Friday for common euro zone bonds or a more flexible use of Europe's rescue funds but agreed with leaders of France, Italy and Spain on a 130 billion euros (100 billion pounds) package to revive growth.

ECB loosens lending rules to ease funding stress

Shares bruised by miners, oil stocks

 

LONDON - Shares slid on Friday and investors braced for further falls as a run of weak global economic data cast a cloud over the prospects for the mining and oil sectors - which make up around a third of the FTSE 100 index.

 

Audit watchdog closes Lehman probe against E&Y

 

LONDON - Audit watchdog has closed a two-year old probe into how Ernst & Young endorsed statements from failed U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, saying there was no realistic prospect of a tribunal finding a rule breach.

6:36pm BST

 

Unipol says regulatory probes won't derail FonSai plan

 

MILAN - The regulatory and legal probes hanging over loss-making Italian insurer Fondiaria SAI and its main shareholders will not affect plans by peer Unipol to rescue the company to create Italy's No. 2 insurer, Unipol said on Friday.

6:53pm BST

 

Carnival struggles with weak demand, shares down

 

- Carnival Corp & Plc's quarterly profit plunged 93 percent due to rising fuel costs and weaker bookings following the Costa Concordia wreck earlier this year, sending its shares down 3 percent in midday trade.

5:55pm BST

 

Marks & Spencer's menswear head quits for Bhs

 

LONDON - Marks & Spencer , Britain's biggest clothing retailer, was dealt a blow on Friday after its head of menswear Richard Price, quit the firm to become managing director of Philip Green's Bhs department store chain.

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No, Really Bill?

 

Now here's an interesting line...

Gross, who manages $261 billion for the Pimco
Total Return Fund (PTTRX)
, said in a Twitter post that risk markets are vulnerable as the “
monetary bag of tricks empties
.”

But wait... I thought we were in an actual economic recovery? So say all the talking heads at the WSJ, CNBS, pMSNBC and more.

And I thought The Fed (and other central banks) were simply about providing liquidity and insuring the functioning of the financial system -- not playing tricks on people.

 

More at the link.

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Philly Fed: Now THAT Is A Disaster

There's bad, there's really bad, but when you just can't deal with the ordinary bad you need yesterday's Philly Fed survey:

Firms responding to the June Business Outlook Survey indicated weaker business conditions this month. The survey’s indicators for general activity, new orders, shipments, and average work hours were all negative this month, suggesting overall declines in business. Input price pressures were less in evidence this month, with more firms reporting declines in input prices. And for the second consecutive month, more firms reported declines in prices for their products than reported increases. The survey’s indicators of future activity remained positive and improved slightly, suggesting that the current weakness in activity is expected to be short]lived.

Riiight.

The market was having none of it and sold off over 200 DOW points.

 

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Oh Oh... Greece Raises The Reparations Claim

Now this has potential to get interesting...

"We don't owe the Germans money, they owe us," he told Reuters in an interview in his central Athens office, sitting in front of a line of campaign posters for his radical
Syriza
bloc, which placed second in last Sunday's Greek parliament election.

"The total they owe us is 162 billion euros without interest. If you add 3 percent interest, it's more than a trillion euros. But we can accept a haircut on the interest."

Actually, there's a problem here -- his accounting appears to count inflation twice.

See, he inflates the principal. But you don't get to do that -- the reason you get interest is to cover the expected inflation and the risk of non-repayment.

 

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Claims: What, They're Not Dropping?!

 

It isn't coming down, is it?

In the week ending June 16, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted
initial claims
was 387,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 389,000. The 4-week moving average was 386,250, an increase of 3,500 from the previous week's revised average of 382,750.

Well, no, it's not. And that's a problem.

Ominously, the "big table" was almost flat -- roll-offs in the extended benefits are countered by new claims in the 26 week "basic" program, which may indicate building layoff pressures once again.

 

More at the link.

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