http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=6982 bus en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk TS http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=6982&format=rss Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:47:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/TS_rss.gif http://thescotsman.scotsman.com 281 70 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Car-sales-soar-as-scrappage.5886670.jp NEW car sales soared last month as consumers took advantage of the government's car scrappage scheme. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Car-sales-soar-as-scrappage.5886670.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/US-interest-rates-set-to.5886673.jp A NEW year rise in United States interest rates was on the cards last night, after it emerged American employers had made the lowest number of job cuts since the recession be http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/US-interest-rates-set-to.5886673.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Corus-axes-1700-more-jobs.5886665.jp STEELMAKER Corus is cutting a further 1,700 jobs after deciding to mothball a major plant in Teesside in the new year. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Corus-axes-1700-more-jobs.5886665.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/-Kraft-starts-Cadbury-countdown.5886672.jp KRAFT posted its hostile offer for Cadbury to the UK company's shareholders yesterday, triggering a two-month deadline to complete the deal. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/-Kraft-starts-Cadbury-countdown.5886672.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-year-on-the-flaws.5886567.jp THE first anniversary of home reports passed without incident this week, but evidence is mounting of flaws in the system that threaten its future success. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-year-on-the-flaws.5886567.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Two-years-a-big-gamble.5886570.jp IF CHINA is good enough for legendary fund manager Anthony Bolton, it's good enough for me. That was the thinking of many investors last week after Bolton, formerly mana http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Two-years-a-big-gamble.5886570.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Terry-Murden-US-sees-signs.5886674.jp THE better-than-expected US employment figures, showing the smallest monthly job loss since the recession began, prompted a sharp spike in the Dow Jones and had US traders spl http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Terry-Murden-US-sees-signs.5886674.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Economic-crisis-union-upset-foreign.5886561.jp HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth is, of course, removed from party politics. Nevertheless, it was the monarch who effectively fired the starting gun for an election campaign tha http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Economic-crisis-union-upset-foreign.5886561.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Top-ten-Take-advantage-of.5886574.jp EACH week The Scotsman gives you a top ten guide to pertinent financial issues. With interest rates set to remain low for at least another year savers face a struggle to impr http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Top-ten-Take-advantage-of.5886574.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/People-New-MS-boss-Bolland.5886667.jp MARKS & Spencer's new boss has left his post as chief executive of supermarket chain Morrisons two months earlier than expected. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/People-New-MS-boss-Bolland.5886667.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Jobs-progress-gives-shares-a.5886671.jp LONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 5,322.36 +9.36 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Jobs-progress-gives-shares-a.5886671.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Fairer-tariffs--smarter-way.5886575.jp AS the name might suggest, smart meters are quite clever. The meters, which are to due to be installed in homes across the UK over the coming decade, allow homeowners to see http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Fairer-tariffs--smarter-way.5886575.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Try-taking-investment-return-in.5886563.jp IN 1966, the Beatles found themselves taxed at up to 19 shillings in the pound and wrote their song Taxman as a result. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Try-taking-investment-return-in.5886563.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Cash-clinic-Changes-to-taxfree.5886573.jp Q I will shortly turn 50 and am thinking about retiring in the next year. I understand that as of April there will be an increase in the tax-free cash pension age from 50 to 5 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Cash-clinic-Changes-to-taxfree.5886573.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Time-to-take-a-bullish.5886562.jp THE credit crunch was always going to have aftershocks and the Dubai crisis is the first real example of this. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Time-to-take-a-bullish.5886562.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Darling-poised-to-launch-new.5886572.jp SPECULATION is mounting that the Chancellor is plotting a further attack on the higher-rate tax relief on pensions in his Pre-Budget Report next week. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Darling-poised-to-launch-new.5886572.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Forestry-prices-just-keep-on.5886730.jp THE forestry sector seems to have escaped any knock-on effect from the current recession with values of woodland holding their own. Overall forestry prices have risen 126 per http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Forestry-prices-just-keep-on.5886730.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Pensions-plummet-as-annuity-returns.5886571.jp WORKERS reaching retirement are getting pension incomes half the level of their counterparts 15 years ago, after annuity rates plummeted to a new low. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Pensions-plummet-as-annuity-returns.5886571.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-to-watch-Really-cleaning.5886668.jp Bioquell 155p No change Scotsman says HOLD http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-to-watch-Really-cleaning.5886668.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Get-on-your-marks-for.5886587.jp THE starting gun has been fired for independent financial advisers in Scotland to declare their interest in the 2010 Scotsman IFA of the Year competition. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Get-on-your-marks-for.5886587.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Good-idea-but-still-waiting.5886569.jp FRANCESCO Rizza put his house on the market shortly after Home Reports were introduced a year ago, but so far the new system has failed to help him sell the renovated property http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Good-idea-but-still-waiting.5886569.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Lees-wins-225000-over-Patisserie.5886666.jp MACAROON maker Lees of Scotland has been awarded £225,000 in compensation after the collapse of Patisserie UK, its failed bakery business. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Lees-wins-225000-over-Patisserie.5886666.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Humphreys--to-step-down.5886760.jp THE announcement yesterday that Peter Humphreys, chief executive of the UK's largest farmer owned dairy business, First Milk, would be standing down brought a fresh rall http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Humphreys--to-step-down.5886760.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Shell39s-exit-from-China-casts.5886664.jp OIL major Royal Dutch Shell has dashed hopes that China's booming energy demand will offer vast opportunities for oil refiners, by withdrawing from a joint venture with Si http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Shell39s-exit-from-China-casts.5886664.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Scottish-families-stand-to-inherit.5886565.jp MORE than three quarters of Scots over 55 aim to leave money to their families when they die, survey results show. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Scottish-families-stand-to-inherit.5886565.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-in-four-mothers-put.5886564.jp ONE in four women in the UK have put their pension savings on hold to have children, according to research published yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/One-in-four-mothers-put.5886564.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/We-really-do-spend-more.5886566.jp BRITONS spend an average of £486 a month more than they think. The average worker reckons they spend £892 – compared with an actual figure of £1,378, according to the Reality http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/We-really-do-spend-more.5886566.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Bellway-optimistic-as-reservations-soar.5886663.jp BELLWAY the housebuilder raised hopes of a recovery in the UK property market yesterday when it reported that reservations in the four months to 30 November were 51 per cen http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Bellway-optimistic-as-reservations-soar.5886663.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Passenger-numbers-take--off.5886669.jp EASYJET yesterday said bookings for last month rose by more than 12 per cent as the low-fares airline continued to weather the economic storm. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Passenger-numbers-take--off.5886669.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Foreign-buyers-boost-UK-property.5886662.jp FOREIGNERS are helping to prop up the UK property market as they take advantage of the weak pound to snap up cheap homes, housebuilder Berkeley Group said yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Foreign-buyers-boost-UK-property.5886662.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT