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Freeth Cartwright expanding to bigger offices in Colmore Row
Professional Services
Law firm Freeth Cartwright will become the latest addition to the Colmore Row set when the company moves to its new offices next week.
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University isn't the only way to success
Professional Services
When it comes to making it in the legal sector, attending university has always been seen as a fundamental stepping stone on the road to success.
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How zero inflation could affect your financial products
Banking & Finance
One of the key measures of inflation fell to zero during February and it looks set to slide into negative territory during the coming months.
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Bank governor warns against give-away Budget
Banking & Finance
Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, warned the Government against a give-away “stimulus” Budget yesterday after official numbers astonished economists by showing that inflation rose in January, confounding widespread expectations that it would continue to fall.
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Midlands management buy-outs plummet in 2008
Banking & Finance
Management buy-outs in the West Midlands dropped sharply in both number and value over the last year, figures from The Centre for Management Buy-Out Research have revealed.
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Firms urged to change structures before it's too late
Banking & Finance
Business owners need to act now by changing their company structure in order to protect themselves from the continuing economic downturn, a Birmingham owner-managed business advisor has said.
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Warning to Midlands car market of green tax rules
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The struggling new car market in the Midlands could be set for a blow if companies do not take advantage of a tax regime due to end in April, according to specialists at business adviser Grant Thornton.
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Barclays slashes executives’ salaries in ‘pay for performance’ review
Banking & Finance
Barclays pledged a new era of “pay for performance” yesterday as part of an overhaul of salary and bonuses after last year’s plunging annual profits and multi-billion-pound writedowns.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers in 'cash rich' plea
Banking & Finance
Managers need to start focusing on making their firms cash rich, rather than just looking at profit, experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Midlands have said.
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Absolute or target returns approach holds appeal
Banking & Finance
Last month’s column highlighted the possibility of quantitative easing being implemented; today it has become a reality.
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Law firm reports rise in Midlands personal bankruptcies
Banking & Finance
The number of people declaring themselves bankrupt in the Midlands is on the rise as the economic downturn continues to worsen, a leading Black Country law firm has claimed.
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CBI warns Chancellor not to give away too much
Banking & Finance
Chancellor Alistair Darling has been warned by the CBI to avoid another big give-away “stimulus” in his Budget on April 22 and urged to reverse recent Government decisions that are adding to business costs and threatening jobs.
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Mortgage lending hits eight-year low in February
Banking & Finance
Mortgage lending dived by 60 per cent to an eight-year low during February as the credit crunch continued to strangle the market.
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Public borrowing soars to £9 million in February
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The Ƶ plunged further into the red in February as public borrowing soared to £9 billion, official figures showed yesterday.
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Why Alistair Darling must dread Budget Day
Banking & Finance
Pity Alistair Darling as he wakes in the morning to hear the voice on the radio intoning the date.
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Beware of this Government Ponzi scheme
Banking & Finance
If it was not so serious, the daily breaking news from the financial world would make a top-rated soap series, which would have us all glued to our television sets.
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Winners and losers in mortgage market
Banking & Finance
Interest rates have probably sunk as low as they can go, and as the Bank of England starts pumping another £75 billion into the economy by buying bonds and corporate debt from banks, millions of homebuyers, and others keen to buy, need a “safety first” strategy through a severe downturn.
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NS&I drops one Premium Bond £1m prize
Banking & Finance
National Savings and Investments is abandoning one of the £1million jackpot prizes that Premium Bond holders can win.
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Pru appoint first black chief executive of FTSE 100 company
Banking & Finance
Insurance giant Prudential said yesterday its chief executive of more than four years was stepping down to be replaced by the first black chief executive of a FTSE 100 company.
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Bankers fall in Birmingham - to help hospice
Banking & Finance
Bankers will abandon their suits for more appropriate attire as they attempt to abseil down their office building to raise £6,000 for charity tomorrow.
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Government slashes SAYE bonus rates
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The Government has cut the bonus rates paid on employee savings schemes following recent interest rate falls.
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Bank of England's interest rate cut was unanimous, reveals minutes
Banking & Finance
The Bank of England’s interest-setting committee devoted much of its meeting early this month to debating the scale, speed and nature of the Bank’s planned injection of newly-created money into the economy to counter the recession.
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Select committee slams Equitable response as 'shabby'
Banking & Finance
The Government’s response to a report into its handling of the problems at Equitable life is “shabby, constitutionally dubious and procedurally improper”, MPs will say today.
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RBS board 'bent over backwards' to give Goodwin penison
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Former board members of Royal Bank of Scotland “bent over backwards” to furnish Sir Fred Goodwin with a pension package he was not entitled to, a Treasury minister said yesterday.
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