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Azure Global : House price boom brings new wave of sellers into the market
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Monday, 17 February 2014. House price boom brings new wave of sellers into the market. Property website Rightmove says shortage of homes and buying frenzy have driven asking prices to record level. The booming market has provoked a big increase in the number of sellers, with 18% more properties being listed than a year ago. But Rightmove said it is yet to affect the su...
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Azure Global : 02/09/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Sunday, 9 February 2014. Barclays blasted over 'catastrophic' theft of thousands of customer files. Barclays is under scrutiny by regulators and could face a hefty fine after thousands of confidential customer files were stolen in a data breach described as catastrophic by an adviser to the business secretary, Vince Cable. They should do.". Barclays said it would be writin...
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Azure Global : 02/12/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Wednesday, 12 February 2014. Barclays cull to clear out senior bankers. Barclays is planning to cut 820 managing director and director-level staff, of which about half are expected to come from its investment banking arm, as part of an effort to reduce costs. At present, Barclays employs almost 140,000 staff in offices and branches across the world. The job losses came as ...
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Azure Global : UK inflation falls below Bank of England's 2% target
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Tuesday, 18 February 2014. UK inflation falls below Bank of England's 2% target. Rate dropped to 1.9% in January, the first time it has dipped below target in more than four years. Inflation fell below the Bank of England's 2% target for the first time in more than four years in January, brightening the outlook for Britain's squeezed consumers. Wage growth was just 0.9...
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Azure Global : 02/13/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Thursday, 13 February 2014. Lloyds in £1bn tax dispute with HMRC over Irish losses. Bank reveals it is in a £1bn tax dispute with HMRC over the way it has used losses from its Irish buisness to cut its tax bill. The disclosure of the tax dispute came as Lloyds published its full-year results, which showed the lender had made a pre-tax statutory profit of £415m, revers...
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Azure Global : 02/18/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Tuesday, 18 February 2014. UK inflation falls below Bank of England's 2% target. Rate dropped to 1.9% in January, the first time it has dipped below target in more than four years. Inflation fell below the Bank of England's 2% target for the first time in more than four years in January, brightening the outlook for Britain's squeezed consumers. Wage growth was just 0.9...
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Azure Global : 02/26/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Wednesday, 26 February 2014. Bank of England could raise interest rates next spring, says MPC member. MPC member Ian McCafferty says market expectations rates could rise in the second quarter of 2015 are 'not unreasonable'. Following his remarks being published, the pound rose to session highs against the dollar and euro. I suppose my view would be if anything, the risk I ...
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Azure Global : Former Barclays bankers charged over Libor allegations
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Monday, 17 February 2014. Former Barclays bankers charged over Libor allegations. The three men are the first former or existing Barclays staff named in criminal proceedings linked to interest rate fixing allegations. Three former Barclays bankers have been charged in relation to allegations of a conspiracy to manipulate Libor interest rates. It is thought that the latest ...
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Azure Global : 02/25/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Tuesday, 25 February 2014. HSBC hands allowances to hundreds of bankers to avoid EU bonus cap. Britain's biggest bank awards staff 'fixed pay allowances' to side-step restriction on bonuses imposed by Brussels. HSBC haven't so much circumvented rules on bonuses as driven a coach and horses through them. The only way to rein in bankers' remuneration is to make banks pay...
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Azure Global : 02/19/14
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Azure people are dedicated experts, passionate about and committed to providing the best quality of service and value to our clients. Wednesday, 19 February 2014. UK unemployment rate ticks up, underlines steady stance on rates. Britain's unemployment rate unexpectedly edged up in the three months to December to mark a first rise in almost a year, underlining a message from the Bank of England that it is in no rush to hike borrowing costs. When considering changes to monetary policy. The minutes from the...