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Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the police and armed forces. In a widely reported interview with the UK Telegraph newspaper, Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith said excessive welfare spending should be trimmed back and savings diverted ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... proposition at this precise moment in time because of its negative inflation-adjusted returns and using as lead "The Daily Telegraph's" story about how a Shanghai migrant worker saved 7200 yuan (US$1,153) for about 10 years, which his wife hid in the ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... 5.45% -- a six week high. And then this. Bunga bunga party boy Berlusconi is poised for a comeback. According to The Telegraph, his party is surging at the polls on "vows to rip up "German-imposed" austerity policies and cancel a hated property tax". ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... Japanese leaders have in no uncertain terms expressed their desire to keep the yen low. And this last night from 'The Telegraph,' "The ECB has so far refused to act to curb euro strength, standing aloof as Japan, the US, Britain, Switzerland, Norway ...

Investment banking scale down: Barclays

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... be listening a lot more than I'm talking. That's an important way of operating," he told British newspaper the Sunday Telegraph. "I want to hear what's on investors' minds. If they've got concerns about how we run the bank, then I would anticipate we'll ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... summer. Oh yeah, there was a bit of action in Europe that lifted moods. Most equity indices there gained after "The Daily Telegraph" printed that Frau Merkel's man in the ECB - German ECB executive board member Jorg Asmussen - is backing ECB President ...

JPMorgan execs to resign over US$2bn trading loss

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... investment office. In subsequent trading on Friday, approximately US$14bn was wiped off the bank's stock market value. The Telegraph, based in London, has uncovered allegations that senior executives were put on notice concerning the level of risk being ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... losses and Wall Street to close on the up. "Eurozone leaders to meet again amid fears bail-out fund is too small" (The Telegraph). Yes, Europe's answer to every crisis flare-up, hold a gabfest. Eurozone finance ministers have scheduled an emergency meeting ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... Growth in America would now only be 1.8% next year - down from its May prediction of 3.1%. And, according to the UK Telegraph, "The OECD added that the scenario could be worse if the eurozone rescue deal fails to restore confidence in markets." Boy oh ...

BBC denies trader a hoax interview

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... interview even prompted Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado to label him "mad and immoral." UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, reported that Rastani is not registered with the UK Financial Services Authority and owns a 99% share of a public speaking ...