Category: General

Thursday Newspaper round up.

ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has reportedly become a focus of the UK Libor rate-rigging investigation and is being investigated by the Financial Services Authority for possible breaches of market conduct rules. The...

Wednesday Newspaper round up

Barclays is planning to offshore hundreds of roles at its troubled investment banking unit to India in a bid to cut costs, The Independent has learnt. The bank is understood to have dispatched a...

Tuesday Newspaper round up

Health insurers and doctors in the United States are turning up their noses at AstraZeneca’s much-vaunted new heart drug, according to a leading broker. Analysts at Société Générale forecast yesterday that sales of Brilinta...

Monday Newspaper round up

Barclays was hit by further damaging revelations about the culture that was allowed to flourish in certain parts of the bank yesterday after it emerged that a senior executive had suppressed a damaging report...

The Smallcap Oil & Gas round up

Yes it’s here again back by popular demand the famous BMD smallcap oil & Gas round up. There are many pretenders to the Throne. But alas there can can only be one. Antrim Energy...

Sefton Resources BMD Statement.

Today we received a letter from Sefton Resources legal mouth-piece Helen Skinner of Pinsent Masons. The letter basically threatens legal action regarding what they say are “untrue statements which wrongly damage our clients good...

Friday Newspaper round up.

China’s economy slid to its slowest growth in more than a decade last year, dragged down by global woes and a domestic campaign to deflate a property bubble. But the country finished 2012 on...

Thursday Newspaper round up.

Europe, Japan and India on Thursday joined the United States in grounding their fleet of Boeing Dreamliner 787s, a day after a Japanese aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing. Japanese Transport Ministry...