Britains Brown opens tour of Gulf for financial backing
Riyadh - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was due in Saudi Arabia later Saturday at the start of a four-day Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Brown will attempt to win the backing of oil-rich Gulf nations in ...

[ Published on : Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:36 ]

Bank of England cuts rates by 1.5 per cent - Update
London - The Bank of England Thursday unexpectedly cut interest rates by as much as 1.5 percentage points to 3 per cent in the banks biggest single reduction ever, the bank said. The measure was welcome by business leaders who had been urging Britai...

[ Published on : Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:39 ]

BA half-year profits nosedive in turbulent environment
London - Pre-tax profits at British Airways (BA) slumped by nearly 92 per cent to just 52 million pounds (83 million dollars) over the summer period - one of the bleakest on record the airline said Friday. Half-yearly profits between April and Sept...

[ Published on : Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:40 ]

BA half-year profits tumble in turbulent environment
London - Pre-tax profits at British Airways (BA) fell by a staggering 91.6 per cent in first half of the companys financial year, figures showed Friday. BA said pre-tax profit totalled 52 million pounds (83 million dollars), between April and Septem...

[ Published on : Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:39 ]

Music company EMI reports 757-million-pound loss
London - British music company EMI reported a loss of 757 million pounds (1.2 billion dollars) in its first year as part of the private equity group Terra Firma, news reports said Saturday. Revenues dropped by 19 per cent to 1.46 billion pounds in th...

[ Published on : Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:32 ]

Corus steel giant to cut production by 30 per cent
London - Steel giant Corus, Europes second-largest steel company owned by Indias Tata Steel, Friday announced plans to cut production by 30 per cent over the next six months. The company, formerly British Steel, cited the global economic downturn f...

[ Published on : Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:40 ]

Bank of England says British economy is already in recession
London - The British economy is already in recession and will shrink by as much as 2 per cent by early 2009, the Bank of England (BoE) said Wednesday. The banks quarterly inflation report, presented by central bank governor Mervyn King Wednesday, sa...

[ Published on : Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:42 ]

BP reports huge profit rise in third quarter of 2008 - Summary
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday called on energy companies to pass on the fall in oil prices to consumers as anger spread over a mammoth leap in quarterly profits for oil giant British Petroleum (BP). In its biggest-ever quarterl...

[ Published on : Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:32 ]

Britains BT sheds 10,000 jobs as recession bites - Summary
London - British Telecom (BT) said Thursday that it would cut a total of 10,000 jobs in the current financial year, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme. The news came after a string of similar job-cutting announcements by major British in the ...

[ Published on : Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:43 ]

European central banks cut rates to ward off recession - Update
London/Frankfurt - Faced with a looming recession and rapidly falling inflation, the European Central Bank (ECB) cut rates by 50 per cent Thursday as monetary authorities around the world step up efforts to cut the cost of money. The ECBs move follo...

[ Published on : Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:39 ]