Feed aggregator

Land Securities finds partner for 'Walkie Talkie' skyscraper

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 18:36
The long-awaited naming of the identity of Land Securities' partner for the building of the "Walkie Talkie" skyscraper in the City of London is expected later this month.
Categories: Business News

Barack Obama is locked in a lose-lose situation

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 18:27
The president seems incapable of tackling either unemployment or the deficit, says Jeremy Warner.
Categories: Business News

BP spill costs still $90m a day after oil leak sealed

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 18:09
BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is still costing the oil giant $90m (£58m) a day, despite the fact that the leak was stopped a month ago.
Categories: Business News

'Equities are dead, long live bonds'

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 18:00
A leading City analyst claims that bonds are a better bet than shares. Which way should investors turn?
Categories: Business News

Edible crystals could store hydrogen fuel

New Scientist - 3 September, 2010 - 17:56
Molecular cages for storing hydrogen fuel have been made from cheap, natural ingredients ndash; and they taste like crackersimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d66e65b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Edible+crystals+could+store+hydrogen+fuellink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19401-edible-crystals-could-store-hydrogen-fuel.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Edible+crystals+could+store+hydrogen+fuellink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19401-edible-crystals-could-store-hydrogen-fuel.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869592373/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224847451/kg/132/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869592373/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224847451/kg/132/a2.img" border="0"//a
Categories: Front Page, Science

Plans for solar 'close encounter'

BBC Science & Environment News - 3 September, 2010 - 17:44
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
Categories: Front Page, Science

Poised for a risk rally?

UK Business News from Reuters - 3 September, 2010 - 17:31
LONDON (Reuters) - With little fanfare, equity markets have started to rally, investors have become sated with government bonds and cash levels are high enough to prompt a search for better yield.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=MP9lDvyzMj4:6_azv9vKEH0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=MP9lDvyzMj4:6_azv9vKEH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=MP9lDvyzMj4:6_azv9vKEH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=MP9lDvyzMj4:6_azv9vKEH0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=MP9lDvyzMj4:6_azv9vKEH0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/MP9lDvyzMj4" height="1" width="1"/
Categories: Business News

James Caan: 'Yachts, fast cars, art - I just love to spend money'

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 17:30
Dragons' Den entrepreneur James Caan lives with his wife and two daughters in London.
Categories: Business News

BHP Billiton could seal Potash deal with marketing and jobs pledge

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 17:26
All BHP Billiton needs to do to gain approval for its hostile $40bn (£25.9bn) bid for PotashCorp is to agree to preserve head-office jobs and support a fertilizer-marketing company, according to Canadian lawyers.
Categories: Business News

Should you take the fixed rate mortgage bait?

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 17:20
It pays to do the maths before switching from a variable rate mortgage.
Categories: Business News

Montagu gears up for 2.3 billion eur new fund - sources

UK Business News from Reuters - 3 September, 2010 - 17:16
LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm Montagu is gearing up to raise its next fund after filling investors' pockets with more than 1 billion euros (834 million pounds) over the last 18 months, sources familiar with the situation said.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QPbNqFc6VAw:uLtS9BY50-4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QPbNqFc6VAw:uLtS9BY50-4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=QPbNqFc6VAw:uLtS9BY50-4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QPbNqFc6VAw:uLtS9BY50-4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=QPbNqFc6VAw:uLtS9BY50-4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/QPbNqFc6VAw" height="1" width="1"/
Categories: Business News

U.S. jobs data lifts FTSE to 4-month closing high

UK Business News from Reuters - 3 September, 2010 - 17:11
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's leading share index hit a near four-month closing high on Friday after a better-than-expected U.S. jobs report eased concerns of the world's largest economy slipping back to another recession.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=FReiZnItDOo:7XcYH5Y_JuA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=FReiZnItDOo:7XcYH5Y_JuA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=FReiZnItDOo:7XcYH5Y_JuA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=FReiZnItDOo:7XcYH5Y_JuA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=FReiZnItDOo:7XcYH5Y_JuA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/FReiZnItDOo" height="1" width="1"/
Categories: Business News

Ben 10 toys boost for Tandem

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 17:02
Tandem, the Birmingham-based bikes and toys maker, said its full-year results will beat forecasts because of better-than-expected sales of Ben 10 toys.
Categories: Business News

Panda twins delight Japanese zoo

BBC Science & Environment News - 3 September, 2010 - 16:47
New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.
Categories: Front Page, Science

Pakistan's flood weather eased Atlantic hurricanes

New Scientist - 3 September, 2010 - 16:45
The stalled weather pattern behind floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in Russia may have delayed the start of the Atlantic hurricane seasonimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d665bdf/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Pakistan%27s+flood+weather+eased+Atlantic+hurricaneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19400-pakistans-flood-weather-eased-atlantic-hurricanes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Pakistan%27s+flood+weather+eased+Atlantic+hurricaneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19400-pakistans-flood-weather-eased-atlantic-hurricanes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869506972/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224811999/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869506972/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224811999/a2.img" border="0"//a
Categories: Front Page, Science

Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep

New Scientist - 3 September, 2010 - 16:33
The sizes of asteroids near Jupiter spell trouble for the leading theory of how our solar system evolvedimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d663ad3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Trojan+asteroids+make+planetary+scientist+lose+sleeplink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727765.100-trojan-asteroids-make-planetary-scientist-lose-sleep.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Trojan+asteroids+make+planetary+scientist+lose+sleeplink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727765.100-trojan-asteroids-make-planetary-scientist-lose-sleep.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869585533/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224803539/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869585533/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224803539/a2.img" border="0"//a
Categories: Front Page, Science

EU austerity policies risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist Dr Sinn

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 16:21
Greece's austerity measures cannot prevent default and could lead to a breakdown of the political order, says top German economist.
Categories: Business News

EU austerity polices risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist Dr Sinn

Telegraph Business News - 3 September, 2010 - 16:21
Greece's austerity measures cannot prevent default and could lead to a break-down of the political order, says top German economist.
Categories: Business News

Wolves fail to halt aspen decline

BBC Science & Environment News - 3 September, 2010 - 16:20
The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.
Categories: Front Page, Science

Computer games may be spawning reckless drivers

New Scientist - 3 September, 2010 - 15:59
Young drivers who played car-based computer games in their mid-teens are more likely to say they drive fast and dangerously in the real worldimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d65fd86/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Computer+games+may+be+spawning+reckless+driverslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19399-computer-games-may-be-spawning-reckless-drivers.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Computer+games+may+be+spawning+reckless+driverslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19399-computer-games-may-be-spawning-reckless-drivers.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869582329/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224787846/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869582329/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/224787846/a2.img" border="0"//a
Categories: Front Page, Science