Provides the latest RSS feeds for UK Business News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page London Mercury.com http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/10/id/0f440bf3fff89f01/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:24:29 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:24:29 -0500 30 LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures. http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203206945/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:32 -0500 London Mercury.com http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203206945/cs/1/ Sex parties are attracting regular noise complaints from neighbours. Auckland Council environmental control team manager Mervyn Chetty told the Herald on Sunday his officers were being called to ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203235131/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:30:12 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203235131/ ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalise Greek banks after a planned bond swap, but has yet to resolve issues related to labour reform and spending cuts in ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203233303/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:25:23 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203233303/ Telecoms firm BT stepped up the pace of its broadband expansion today by promising "ultra-fast" speeds of up to 300Mb by next spring. Its current broadband speeds are closer to ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231309/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:16 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231309/ French Connection, the fashion retailer, has suffered its second profit warning in less than three months after it was hit by weak retail sales over Christmas. The group said trading in ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231310/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:12 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231310/ BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is seeking an international credit line of 15 to 20 billion euros (12.5 to 16.7 billion pounds), the secretary of state heading the prime minister's office, Mihaly ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:47:36 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231311/ FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse's chief executive Reto Francioni should step down following the collapse of its $7.4 billion (4.6 billion pounds) plan to merge with NYSE Euronext, a ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231312/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:47:33 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203231312/ Endless gloomy headlines on the state of the housing market have not entirely dampened optimism around the sector, according to new research. The report, from Halifax, will come as a boost to ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221802/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:58 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221802/ HOPES that the UK economy can avoid a double-dip recession were given a boost yesterday after new figures revealed a record rise in optimism in the service sector. The closely watched Markit/CIPS ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221803/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:49 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221803/ WELSH retailer Iceland has made the list of the world’s 250 biggest retailers. The Deeside-based company came in at number 217 in the league table in Deloitte’s Global Powers of ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221695/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:45 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221695/ A MAJOR recycling business has gone into administration with the loss of 27 jobs. David Hill and Peter Dewey, partners in the Cardiff office of Begbies Traynor, have been appointed to oversee ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221804/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:40 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221804/ BANKERS’ pay is too high and needs to be ';corrected';, the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Sir Philip Hampton said yesterday. But Sir Philip said that, relative to other ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221805/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:35 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221805/ THE ';crisis'; in the eurozone is probably now behind us, according to a leading market expert. Speaking on a visit to meet investors in Cardiff, Mike Lenhoff, chief strategist at Brewin ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221785/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:30 -0500 IC Wales http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221785/ Stephen Foley is Associate Business Editor of The Independent, based in New York. In a decade at the paper, he has covered personal finance, the UK stock market and the pharmaceuticals industry, and ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221790/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:37 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221790/ Misys, whose kit is found in banks and financial services firms across the world, is discussing a deal with Swiss counterpart Temenos. The deal followed the50bn tie-up plans of Glencore and ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221791/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:31 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221791/ BT shares yesterday rose 4 per cent to a three-and-a-half-year high as the telecoms giant boosted profits, despite another dip in revenues and some renewed concern over its pension ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221792/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:24 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221792/ It's not yet clear if there will be a broom cupboard in every room, but Nobu, the Michelin-starred restaurant where Boris Becker famously sired a daughter during a "five-minute thing" ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221794/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:13 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221794/ The companies target people by offering to buy their home and let them remain paying rent. But a damning report published by the Financial Services Authority yesterday showed that most sale and rent ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221795/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:07 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221795/ The anger over massive banker pay turned its focus to Barclays last night as it emerged that major shareholders had urged it to rein in bonuses this ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221797/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:55 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221797/ Financier Nat Rothschild faces the prospect of ejection from Bumi, the Indonesian coalminer in which he is a major shareholder and the ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221798/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:48 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221798/ Stephen Foley is Associate Business Editor of The Independent, based in New York. In a decade at the paper, he has covered personal finance, the UK stock market and the pharmaceuticals industry, and ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221806/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:47 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221806/ A remarkable bounce back for the UK's dominant services sector in January has left Bank of England policymakers facing a difficult decision next week over their monetary stimulus ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221799/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:41 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221799/ Andrew Dilnot, soon to be Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, and one-time head of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, wrote a report last year on how society should handle the cost of the long-term ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221807/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:40 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221807/ The FTSE 100 hit its highest level since July 2011 yesterday, finishing at 5901.07, after the announcement that some 243,000 non-farm jobs were created across America in January - considerably more ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221800/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:57:35 -0500 The Independent http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221800/ By Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks surged and the dollar rose against the yen on Friday as news of a jump in U.S. job creation fuelled hopes for recovery in the world's largest ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221801/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:04 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203221801/ The Ford administration said it will impose conditions on workers and expect them to remain on the job if 11th hour talks with the union this weekend fail to bring about a deal. Canadian Union of ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212871/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:12 -0500 National Post http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212871/ By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters) - Indonesia's politically connected Bakrie family and their shareholder partner in Bumi Plc (BUMIP.L) are seeking to oust financier Nat Rothschild ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212872/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:32 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212872/ By Katharina Bart ZURICH (Reuters) - The first indictment of a Swiss private bank over hiding untaxed money for wealthy Americans has heightened tension among private bankers fearful of being next ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212873/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:28 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212873/ By Shrikesh Laxmidas and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Failure of the euro is not an option but the euro zone needs to implement new measures decisively to reassure financial markets, ECB ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212875/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:18 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212875/ By Francesco Guarascio and Huw Jones BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission favours loosening onerous capital rules to make it easier for banks to lend to small businesses, one of its ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212876/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:13 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212876/ surprisingly strong U.S. employment report offered further proof of a healthier global economy, enabling the FTSE-100 to post its biggest weekly gain in two months. The strong U.S. data added to ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212669/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:28:14 -0500 London South East http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203212669/ Four British jihadists pleaded guilty on February 1 to an al-Qaeda-inspired conspiracy to detonate a bomb in the restrooms of the London Stock Exchange, while another nine men involved in the plot ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205349/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:20:30 -0500 Foreign Policy http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205349/ My latest video is about the story broken by the BBC that Ed Lester (Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company) is not taxed the way a Chief Executive should be. Video is ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205361/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:52:42 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205361/ By Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Labour Party is calling on banks to exercise restraint in the annual bonus round, warning on Friday that a culture of excessive bonuses has been ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205363/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:28 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205363/ LONDON (Reuters) - Oil giant BP said William Castell stepped down as the head of its safety committee in December and plans to leave the board in April as the reshaping at the top of the company ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205362/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:24 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205362/ By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205364/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:20 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205364/ BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's statistics office Eurostat will release quarterly debt figures by country from Monday as the 27-nation bloc steps up its economic monitoring two years ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205365/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:18 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205365/ DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair announced 26 new routes from Budapest Friday in a move to capitalise on the grounding of Hungarian airline Malev over unpaid debts. Hungarian ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205366/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:30:15 -0500 Reuters http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205366/ Planning Minister John Rau is in the final stages of drafting a city development blueprint expected to significantly alter existing height, density and design guidelines set by Adelaide City ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205367/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:49 -0500 AdelaideNow http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205367/ By Toni Vorobyova LONDON Feb 3 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index edged higher on Friday, bolstered by solid economic data and upbeat corporate reports, but concerns over a possible weak ... http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205343/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:48:27 -0500 London South East http://story.londonmercury.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/0f440bf3fff89f01/id/203205343/