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Citywire Investment News

• Lloyds to cut 900 jobs
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:56:29 Z
  Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 900 jobs - part of wider plans unveiled last year to cull 15,000 posts across the company.
  

• Why it's too soon to call the end of treasuries' bull run
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:24 Z
  Risk assets have got off to a good start this year but strategists are sceptical about calling time on treasuries' bull run with so much uncertainty remaining in the global economy.
  

• Skandia drops Aviva Investors from Best Ideas after job cuts
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:29 Z
  Skandia Investment Group has removed Aviva Investors? manager Julius Lipner from running money for its Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas fund, following the strategic review of the firm.
  

• The Polar Cap tech team's take on Facebook hype
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:48:50 Z
  Polar Capital?s Nick Evans and Ben Rogoff believe a successful Facebook floatation will act as a positive catalyst for other social media related stocks, particularly LinkedIn and Chinese company Sina.
  

BBC Business News

• Profits decline at BHP Billiton
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:55:26 GMT
  Falling prices of iron ore and coal push down profits at the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton.
  

• VIDEO: Can Greece take more austerity?
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:51 GMT
  In Greece, the government is said to be close to agreement on new austerity measures to qualify for more bailout funds.
  

• Euro 'could survive Greece exit'
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:16:12 GMT
  Pressure is rising as Greece's government once more postponed a crucial meeting to agree tough reforms, as Europe's leaders openly discuss Greece leaving the euro.
  

• Yahoo board in another shake-up
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:12 GMT
  Yahoo's chairman and three other board members step down as the tumult at the US web portal continues.
  

BBC News

• Argentina to go to UN on islands
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:07:16 GMT
  Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the disputed Falkland Islands, says President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
  

• Crews tackle blaze at university
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:59:13 GMT
  More than 50 firefighters have tackled a major blaze in a Strathclyde University building in Glasgow.
  

• Profits decline at BHP Billiton
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:55:26 GMT
  Falling prices of iron ore and coal push down profits at the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton.
  

• Southampton 2-3 Millwall
  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:38:03 GMT
  Liam Feeney's stunning late winner helps Millwall fight back to win 3-2 and dump Southampton out of the FA Cup at St Mary's.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• House prices rose 0.6% in January, says Halifax
  Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:54:16 Z
  The average UK house price is now £161,000.
  

• The 20 postcodes most 'at risk' of burglary
  Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:34 Z
  The areas in the UK that see the most home insurance claims for theft or burglary, and the postcodes that are least at risk.
  

• House prices flat as market 'dogged by uncertainty'
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  January marked the eighteenth month that house prices did not rise, according to Hometrack.
  

• Buying a house is now cheaper than renting one
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Buying a house is over £100 a month cheaper than renting, according to Halifax. Wales is the exception.