FT.com / Companies / Banks – HSBC retreats on chief’s pay award. The FT notes: HSBC has yielded to shareholder protests and backed away from
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FT.com / Technology – Google in Brussels antitrust inquiry. The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s search engine and its search-advertising
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FT.com / Columnists / John Kay – Iceland should stand up to shameful bullying . John Kay makes this powerful point: When Scotland’s two largest
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FT.com / Lex / Finance & governance – UK superfast broadband. Business says the UK must invest in infrastructure to ensure it is competitve in
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AstraZeneca agrees to pay £505m to settle UK tax dispute | Business | guardian.co.uk . As the Guardian notes: AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish drugs group today
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Link by Link – A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists – NYTimes.com. As the New York Times reports: A banking scandal nearly
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BBC News – UK budget cuts ‘hurting Isle of Man’. The BBC reports: The Isle of Man government feels bruised, as if it has been
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Farmland: A growing investment | Money Matters | FT.com. This article highlights what is so wrong about the UK. Tax driven incentives for ‘investment’ are
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Two weeks ago I turned the comments facility on this site off. I’d had enough of the abuse: I’d had enough of the time wasting
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