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When flying with a budget airline hand luggage gauges are used to establish that the baggage is of the correct size, but what if BMI Baby are measuring hand luggage in gauges that are too small?
Morrisons has announced half-yearly profit before tax of £410m, against profit of £359m a year before, an increase of 14%.
Serving tax officer: “HMRC has not been fit for purpose for a very long time. It’s now at melting point”
While UK interest rates have been kept at 0.5% for an 18th month in succession, the rates being charged by credit card providers are rising.
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has been fined £17.5m ($27m) by the UK’s City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
What impact are the spending cuts having in North Yorkshire?
The BBC’s Declan Curry looks at why interest rates matter
India’s film-star hungry public do not have to go to the cinema to get their fix.
For the first time at New York Fashion Week there will be a runway show featuring plus size models.
The United States has been overtaken by Sweden and Singapore in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) competitiveness survey for 2010-11.
According to the latest figures from Nationwide, house prices in the UK have fallen for the second consecutive month in August.
The Nationwide house price index published today (2 September) has shown that the housing market has experienced a slight dip of 0.9% in August, which followed a 0.5% decline in …
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the UK operation of Zurich Insurance £2.27million for losing the personal details of 46,000 customers.
According to the FSA, this fine is the highest to be levied on a single firm to date for data security failings.
The fine has been given for failing to …
Australian airline Qantas has published its annual results showing a 4.3% drop in net profits but remains positive about its outlook.
The company´s underlying profit before tax was 377 million Australian dollars (£216m) for the year ending 30 June 2010 and falls in line with the airline´s predictions.
Both increased competition in …
Samsung has announced it made 4.28 trillion ($2.3bn) won in the second quarter of 2010, mainly due to improved sales in its components business and of its smartphones.
The South Korean electrical firm said in a statement today (30 July) that it made a record operating profit of 5.01tn won on …
Deutsche Bank today (27 July) released its financial results for the second quarter of 2010 showing net profit of €1.2 billion (£1bn), up from the €1.1bn profit made in same period last year.
The German bank’s Private Client, Asset Management and Global Transaction Banking departments all yielded solid results.
Income before taxes …
