By Golnar Motevalli LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain is heading for a shallow recession in the second half of this year and next year's economic growth will be the weakest since 1992, the Confederation of British Industry said on Monday. The CBI cut its growth forecast...
After the US bailout plan's failure, what happens next? Sean Farrell, Nick Clark and Sean O'Grady ask the experts just how bad it will get Richard Lambert CBI director general The recent consensus among economists has been that the UK...
Byline: HENRYK ZIENTEK PROFITS and business volumes among UK financial services firms are tumbling at a record rate as the credit crunch continues to bite, said the CBI today. Job losses are also set to rise sharply in the next three months, claimed a survey by...
BSA Satellink transforms itself into the Affluence Corporation, a direct marketing company aggregating the largest organization of the world's most affluent people. PALM HARBOR, Fla., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BSA Satellink Inc. (Pink Sheets: BSAK) (the "Company") announced today that it has closed on the acquisition of...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. ("CBI") (NASDAQ Capital Market:CBTE) is pleased to provide an update regarding its continued expansion into the key Asian markets of India and China and its positioning for continued growth. CBI Services entered into a renewable Agreement with Link Biotechnologies, New Delhi, India,...
THE RETAIL sector faces a bleak Christmas after retailers posted another set of dismal trading figures in the first half of September and the Confederation of British Industry CBI said it did not expect the economy to recover until autumn 2009. Some 48 per cent of retailers...
TODAY: Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin Q3. Japan All industries index, July. TOMORROW: UK: BBA mortgage approvals and lending. EU: manufacturing and services PMI. US: Ben Bernanke at Senate Banking Committee. WEDNESDAY: CBI distributive trades survey, Sep. MPC member Andrew Sentance speaks. US home...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. CBI (Nasdaq: CBTE), a contract research organization providing outsourced services in the area of biotechnology discovery and development to companies worldwide, today disclosed that it was a key laboratory in developing the DNA forensics methods used to identify the source of the 2001 anthrax...
Byline: HENRYK ZIENTEK THE CBI today became the latest group to forecast that the UK will slide into a recession this year. The employers' lobby group predicts the economy will shrink by 0.2% between July and September, followed by a further 0.1% decline in the fourth...
IN one of the most drastic industrial reverses in postwar Scottish history, the credit crunch has cost around a quarter of the entire housebuilding workforce in the last three months. CBI Scotland director Iain McMillan has called the situation 'devastating' and said it risked damage to the...
CBI Scotland has called for reassurance from the SNP government that plans to replace PPP and PFI will deliver value for money for taxpayers. Commenting ahead of the ministerial statement on the government's proposed Scottish Future Trust slated for Wednesday, CBI Scotland's director Iain McMillan, said: "We...
THE decision to rule out cash handouts for households struggling with soaring fuel bills was blasted by unions as a "downright disgrace". Ministers were expected to unveil plans to give each household up to pounds 100 following in-depth discussions with power companies, but Whitehall sources confirmed last night...
GORDON Brown was to press on with his political fightback today amid fresh questions over his leadership of the Government. The Prime Minister is due to set out his analysis of the current economic problems facing Britain and the wider world in a keynote speech tonight to the...
GORDON Brown will press on with his political fightback today amid fresh questions over his future leadership of the Labour Government. The Prime Minister is due to set out his analysis of the current economic problems facing Britain and the wider world in a keynote speech tonight to...
Bright children should automatically study physics, chemistry and biology at GCSE, according to business leaders. The triple science qualification is currently taken by just 7 per cent of 16-year-olds. The other 93 per cent take the less comprehensive double- or single-GCSE combined science. The Confederation of...
Stress has legal as well as financial implications for organisations and causes considerable distress to individuals (Clarke, Cooper 2003). The Confederation of British Industry's 2006/07 Self-reported Work-Related Illness Study states that 530,000 individuals believed they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill and...
A "SUMMER to forget" for the high street saw retail sales plunge to yet another record low in the first half of August, according to the CBI. The business group's distributive trade survey showed a balance of 46% of firms reporting weaker sales volumes than a year ago...
A "summer to forget" for the high street saw retail sales fall to another record low in the first half of August, the CBI said today. The business group's distributive trade survey showed 46% of firms reporting weaker sales volumes than a year ago - the worst result in the...
Falling profitability and flagging confidence have spread from the consumer sector to Britain's business and professional services firms, a survey of the services industry shows. Services such as lawyers, marketing, accountancy and computing reported record falls in business volumes and values in the quarterly Confederation of British...
TODAY: BBA Loans for House Purchase report for July; Public sector finances supplementary quarterly data TOMORROW: Experimental services producer price index for the second quarter. THURSDAY: CBI Distributive Trades Survey for August; GFK Consumer Confidence Index for August...
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