Category: Business
CITY FOCUS: Lloyds investors vent frustration at bank¿s annual meeting
Radio Row, Cortlandt Street, Manhattan. Digital ID: 482561. Abbott, Berenice — Photographer. April 08, 1936 Notes: Code: III.B.1. Men window shop in store selling radios, elevated railroad station, Ninth Avenue line, right center, subway entrance visible. Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and [...]
Protests against boardroom pay gather pace across the City
Rooms on main camera: Pentax MZ-50 Film: unbranded "official evidence film" Protests against boardroom pay gather pace across the City Share The Shareholder Spring shows no signs of easing as three of the country’s biggest companies suffered investor protest votes over pay and strategy. The board at FTSE 100 insurer Prudential watched as 33 per [...]
Overwhelming demand for Facebook stock is set to raise $16bn
Rooms on main camera: Pentax MZ-50 Film: unbranded "official evidence film" Overwhelming demand for Facebook stock is set to raise bn Share If stock market floats were like video game releases, eager investors would have been camping outside Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, for weeks. Such is the almost cultish clamour that several early [...]
ALEX BRUMMER: Euro exit for Athens should cause barely a ripple in terms of big write-offs for British banks
ALEX BRUMMER: Euro exit for Athens should cause barely a ripple in terms of big write-offs for British banks Share The good news is that the British banks have cut direct exposures to Greece to virtually nothing. So a euro exit for Athens should, of itself, cause barely a ripple in terms of big write-offs. [...]
Spanish bank debt to be downgraded by ratings agency Moody’s
purple police When I went through Parramatta this morning the police cars were almost a rainbow. Blue, red and purple. I will have to write to the minister. Clearly there are some colours missing A woman said today: the polices golden rule is: don’t tell on them. Australia NSW Sydney 20070908 IMG_8946.jpg Spanish bank debt [...]