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New MacBook Air imminent?
New MacBook Air models may be right around the corner -- if a reading of retailer tea leaves is correct.
Categories: Technology
Lundbeck says drug shows improvement in depression symptoms
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the antidepressant vortioxetine had shown significant improvement in patients' symptoms.
Categories: Health
The UK has just had one lost decade, and is about to enter a second
Philip Aldrick considers a chilling account of the challenges facing the West by a chief HSBC economist.
Categories: General
Questor: Lloyds sale draws closer as incredible run keeps going
To sell, or not to sell. That is the question the Government is asking itself at the moment. For the ordinary investor, the answer is rather more simple: hold.
Categories: Banking and finance
As the FTSE flirts with a 13-year high, I'm optimistic - but cautiously so
Intuitively you would think it is easier to bang the drum for investing when the market is testing new highs.
Categories: General
Markets are on a crazy, sugar-fuelled journey
'When the music stops," Chuck Prince famously observed back in mid-2007, "things will get complicated".
Categories: General
The entrepreneurs helping small businesses find a price that's right
Categories: Retail and consumer
Marks and Spencer customer fears over contactless payments
Shoppers complain that the retailer's contactless payment system has taken money from their accounts without permission.
Categories: Retail and consumer
New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft
SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.
Categories: Technology
Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere - including to the crowded bathrooms.
Categories: Technology
MPs consider new inquiry into London listing rules after mining scandals
MPs could launch a new inquiry into the City of London's listing rules and the scandal-hit commodity companies that threaten to damage London's reputation.
Categories: General
Everyone thinks Mark Carney is Superman says HSBC's Stephen King
HSBC's global economist Stephen King tells The Telegraph's Philip Aldrick that Kryptonite awaits the incoming Bank of England Governor.
Categories: General
Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.
Categories: Technology
Wife wins battle for billion pound hedge fund
Their marriage may have ended in a divorce battle but as business partners their combination led to unprecedented success - worth billions.
Categories: Banking and finance
How to back the US stock market boom
Categories: General
Why the US and its stock market will continue to prosper
Economic institutions must be supported by political ones for a country to be a success; without the two inclusive institutions it does not work.
Categories: General
Uncertain times for the American dream
In the US, each generation is meant to be better off than the last - but three in four Americans expect the opposite for their own children.
Categories: General
Yahoo to vote on $1.1 billion Tumblr buy: AllThingsD
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board will meet on Sunday to vote on whether to offer $1.1 billion in cash for New York-based blogging service Tumblr, tech blog AllThingsD cited sources close to the situation as saying on Friday.
Categories: Technology
Indiana pulls nitrogen plant funding over fears about explosives
HOUSTON (ICIS)--Indiana officials on Friday announced the state is withdraw financial support for a proposed nitrogen plant over concerns that part of...
Categories: Chemicals
Europe MTBE factor increases on improved demand
LONDON (ICIS)--The methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) factor against gasoline increased this week on improved demand in the European market, market...
Categories: Chemicals
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The Bottom Line:If Mr Cable has his way...
"If Mr Cable had his way, all the big banks would be broken up and bonuses would be virtually eliminated - a sure-fire way in my view of guaranteeing an end to the UK’s ability to compete as an international financial centre. Let’s not forget that this is a man who is on record as saying that everyone who works in a bank has an ‘aristocratic lifestyle’ clearly demonstrating his lack of understanding of the sector." A tough line on bankers’ bonuses could make a brain drain of financial talent a distinct possibility, warns Paul Marsden. Read more