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Lord Mandelson warned Vauxhall's 5,500 workers last night to brace themselves for job cuts but insisted that a new deal to take control of the carmaker had saved the group's two British manufacturing plants. The Business Secretary said that car workers at Vauxhall had "every reason to feel confiden
Read moreLloyds Banking's tentative plans to raise an estimated £15bn-£20bn in a rights issue to reduce its reliance on the government face a wall of scepticism in Whitehall and among investors. Lloyds last week floated the idea that the terms of its participation in the government's asset protection scheme
Read moreLloyds Banking is weighing up plans for a multi-billion pound share issue to cut its dependency on the taxpayer. The bank is considering a partial withdrawal from the government's asset protection scheme. Eric Daniels, the chief executive of Lloyds, is said to believe the fees attached to the schem
Read moreSome better-than-expected jobs data hauled Footsie into the blue Friday afternoon, ensuring the leading share index continued its rally. The Labor Department said 247,000 jobs disappeared in July, far less than the 320,000 predicted by analysts and almost half the 467,000 reported in June. RBS rem
Read moreWall Street has come to the rescue with better-than-expected unemployment report lifting sentiment in London as well. US futures are now expected to start up after the Labor Department revealed data that showed job losses slowing in July to 247,000 against expectations of a fall to 320,000 and agai
Read moreFootsie is having a tough morning with banks running into profit taking after Royal Bank of Scotland issued what it describes as a 'poor' set of numbers. RBS made a £15m profit, but bad debts rocketed to £7.5bn and it warned results may not "substantially" improve until 2011. Losses attributable t
Read moreLondon got off to a weak start following last night's losses in the US and as investors tread carefully ahead of this afternoon's US non-farm payrolls. Banks are struggling after RBS published its half-year numbers. It made a £15m profit, but bad debts rocketed to £7.5bn and it warned results may
Read moreLondon is expected to open lower today following last night's decline on Wall Street and as investors get nervous ahead of today's big US jobs data. Futures prices indicate an early 17-point drop for the FTSE 100. US non-farm payrolls for July are due out at 1.30pm UK time. About 300,000 jobs are
Read moreSports Direct's acquisition of 31 stores from rival JJB is to be investigated by the Competition Commission after the sportswear group failed to sell five stores identified by the Office of Fair Trading as a competition concern. Sports Direct, which is owned by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, a
Read moreTreasury minister Lord Myners' radical plans for changes to financial regulation are "dangerous" and could result in a further loss of confidence in the market, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI), the Sunday Telegraph reports. Lord Myners' idea for a two-tier shareholder registe
Read moreRexam, the world's largest drinks can maker, will this week launch a £350m rights issue in a move aimed at preserving its investment grade credit rating. The fundraising will make Rexam the first to warn explicitly about the need to secure fresh capital in order to maintain its investment grade sta
Read moreJJB Sports has launched another staunch defence of Sir David Jones, its embattled executive chairman, adding it expects a gradual improvement in trading over the rest of the year. Jones, who will move to a part-time role once the sportswear retailer finds a new chief executive, has been embroiled
Read moreThe cash eaten up by interest payments on Government debt will more than double in the next four years as investors take fright at Britain's ballooning budget deficit, the country's leading independent forecaster has warned. Within four years, almost 9p in every pound of tax paid by British individ
Read moreSportswear retailer JJB Sports has shrugged off new revelations about a £1.5m loan to executive chairman Sir David Jones from rival Sports Direct's owner Mike Ashley. Ashley published a letter at the weekend that he said showed he lent the money to Sir David in October 2007, which he claims is aft
Read moreJJB Sports shares rallied strongly on the news that Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, had bought 800,000 shares and now owns more than 3% of the troubled sportswear retailer. The shares, which took Gates's stake to 3.14%, were bought through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Reports to
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