Neil Collins
It may be junk but its cheap junk
Tuesday, May 12 was just another day in the twilight zone that is the market for bank debt and preference shares. As usual, that day's dividends were paid on time, including the one due on Lloyds Banking Group 6.0884 percent preference shares.
Don't bank on quick recovery, says Bank of English Governor
Forecasting is always difficult, especially about the future, as the old saw has it, and Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, is currently finding it particularly hard. ...Part-paid gilts should return
The UK Government needs to raise four billion pounds a week, every week, in the financial year to next April, to bridge the gap between its tax income and its spending. ...Another pay day for Diamond Bob
At last, Barclays has got rid of iShares. Well, up to a point. CVC, the buyer, may be paying $4.4 billion, but it's not using much of its own money. The finance comes from...Barclays, which is helpfully lending $3.1 billion on terms that will not look familiar to many of its plain vanilla industrial customers....Never mind oil, BP runs low on directors
BP has undergone a critical period of self-assessment over the last four years. The chairman, no less, says so in the oil company's annual report....UK final salary pensions nearer extinction
Aon's website says it covers the entire "life cycle" of the corporate pension scheme, embracing advice, implementation and ongoing delivery of schemes. It doesn't say that Aon is now helping what might better be described as the death cycle of company pensions....A Punch on the nose for the bears
One share in every five in Britain's Punch Taverns has been lent by its owner to the short sellers, who over the last couple of years have made more than enough to cover the bar bills. ...$12.5bn towards HSBC's Household expenses
HSBC's shareholders have risen magnificently to the challenge, putting up $12.5 billion to break the record for the UK stock market. They looked at the rights price, 254p a share, and the market price, 459p at make-up-your-mind time, and wrote the cheques....Protecting the Bank's pensioners
When the Bank of England prefers to bet on inflation, it's time to worry. The Bank's primary duty is to control the rate of change in prices, but its pension scheme is invested almost entirely in assets which will do best if inflation takes off. What's going on?...Log in
- Singapore parents upset over celebrity Jamie Yeo's disclosure of her virginity lost
- Another Tsunami strike on July 22nd 2009?
- Singapore celebrity Jack Neo cheating on wife exposed
- Singapore celebrity Jack Neo in hiding at hotel
- Singapore ex-coach Liu Guodong may sue STTA president Lee Bee Wah
IMHO
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13/03/2010 00:15:55
IMO this wendy person seriously has no shame. Whats she got to gain from dishing all the dirt on her affair? Come on the ...
Vivienne Lau-Chew
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12/03/2010 17:03:11
What Jack Neo did is Definitely not right. He preyed on young women, bad enough women closer to his age, especially since he's married, has ...
convoyBot
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12/03/2010 09:06:53
Eh, soojenn, you got the wrong girl, stupid.
soojenn
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12/03/2010 05:28:41
What a hyprocrite... a slut is a slut.. out ot gain exposure, otherwise why barge into his personal space and home to confront the wife.. ...
angry1
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10/03/2010 15:26:48
This is not just a matter of unfaithful husband. A film director preys on young, innocent and inexperienced woman for his sexual appetite. Is this ...