Business Services Industry
Investors Enjoy Shares Boost on London Stock Exchange.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 21--Investors worried that last year's stock market rally was the end of it all will breathe a sigh of relief that the Footsie has hit a 2004 peak at 4569.
The recovery is understandable given the strength of company profits, epitomised by Tesco, and the underlying strength of the British economy as shown by the IMF's spring forecast.
But there are shadows on the horizon. Mercifully, inflation subsided to 1.1 percent in March, taking some of the sting out of calls for higher interest rates.
But with government borrowing booming on both sides of the Atlantic and the world economy racing away, interest rates will be heading up soon.
To see more of the Daily...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
