http://www.bullbearings.co.uk The premeir UK virtual trading website en-gb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:10:04 +0000 Copyright: (C) BullBearings Ltd 15 http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/img/logo3.gif http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/ Further damaging revelations about the collapse of Lehman Brothers are being held up in the US courts by Barclays.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3336299Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:38:00 +0000Lloyds Banking is believed to be considering plans to hive off a portion of its giant commercial property portfolio into a separate, tax-efficient company. Senior figures within the bank are thought to have put forward the idea, which would see some of the £50bn to £75bn worth of assets and loans inherited by Lloyds following its merger with HBOS spun off into a real estate investment trust (Reit), says the Independent on Sunday.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3336058Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:01:00 +0000Civil servants are scrambling to put together proposals that will allow Britain's pension funds to bankroll the building of motorways and power stations through a special state-controlled bank. http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3333741Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:41:00 +0000Joint broker Investec — which is not pencilling-in a dividend for the foreseeable future — believes that Inchcape's pre-tax profits will rise to £165 million this year, putting the shares on a multiple of just over 11 times. That feels a little rich for a motor retailer. Even if you applied it to Investec's ambitious earnings target of £215 million pre-tax in 2012, that only gets us to a longer-term share price of about 35p. At 28¼p, pass, says the Times.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3330910Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:05:00 +0000International Power's attraction is that it is well placed to take advantage of short-term improvements in power prices. http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3328279Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:55:00 +0000Hundreds of City traders are rethinking plans to leave the UK for tax purposes in the wake of last month's landmark court ruling against a British businessman based in the Seychelles, it emerged yesterday.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3325664Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:37:00 +0000Santander has moved into pole position to take over the 320 branches in England being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3322843Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:39:00 +0000Alistair Darling will refuse to bow to calls for more aggressive spending cuts in his budget this month and will stick to fiscal plans set out last year.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3322817Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:21:00 +0000The supertax on bank bonuses will reap more than £2.5bn for the Treasury, giving the UK government an unexpectedly large windfall to spend ahead of the general election, a Financial Times survey of 16 global banks has found.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3320294Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:33:00 +0000The Petrofac oil services group is on the verge of acquiring a string of North Sea fields in a deal that would pave the way for a $1 billion spin-out of its exploration and production division.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3317526Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:02:00 +0000Prudential has lost a fifth of its stock market value in just two days as Britain's biggest insurer battles to convince UK investors to pay up for its $35.5bn Asian expansion.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3314753Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:36:00 +0000The pound suffered its biggest one-day fall for more than a year yesterday amid the prospect of a hung Parliament and growing fears that this will prevent swift and decisive action being taken over Britain's public finances.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3311990Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:38:00 +0000Prudential has won the support of both AIG's board and the US government to buy the giant US insurer's crown jewel Asian assets for $35.5bn (£23.5bn), the Telegraph reports.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3307496Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:36:00 +0000HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan will break ranks with his rivals at other UK banks and accept a £4m bonus for last year, but immediately hand it onto charity.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3307230Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:01:00 +0000For income investors, Royal Bank of Scotland's inability to pay dividends due to EU state aid rules makes it far from attractive, but for those prepared to take a long-term view and hitch a ride alongside the UK government, then the stock could make an interesting addition. Buy says the Telegraph.http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/news.article.php?article=3307227Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:55:00 +0000