Top 10 investor mistakes
"Alliance & Leicester is worth holding for a bid premium... Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed its growth credentials by beating Barclays to buy ABN Amro ... The Competition Commission would never let any of Britain's top five banks merge...
Read more News Source - Investors Chronicle
Publish date - 11:34:02 12/31/08

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Might there be light?
Surely things can only get better for Scotland plc. Sunday Herald markets soothsayer John Phelps casts his eye over the Scottish corporate landscape and finds plenty of reasons why Scotland’s corporate elite can thrive, not merely survive.
Read more News Source - Sunday Herald
Publish date - 00:07:47 01/04/09

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Fortunes and reputations shredded by 2008’s financial storm
The past year’s dramatic events made fools of some of the financial world’s biggest names. Fortunes have been lost and firms laid low as a series of deals — some of which now look like little more than bets — have gone bitterly sour.
Read more News Source - Taipei Times
Publish date - 17:04:19 01/02/09

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Cole Taylor Bank Names Conte COO
LaSalle Bank alum Randall Conte is named EVP and COO of Illinois bank.
Read more News Source - BankTech
Publish date - 05:00:23 01/02/09

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5 Stocks in a Tailspin
Will they pull out of the dive, or nose into the dirt?
Read more News Source - The Motley Fool
Publish date - 21:36:57 12/30/08

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Career change: Bankerturnedphotojournalist
Many of us dream of dropping everything and starting our career afresh. Few have the opportunity - or the courage - to do so. Four professionals who have taken the plunge explain their dramatic reinventions.
Read more News Source - Daily Telegraph
Publish date - 12:55:58 12/30/08

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