Writers strike could cost TV revenues
The viewing figures that many TV channels have come to take for granted and therefore use to attract advertisers who are the life blood of the channel, may be at risk and for no other reason than the writer’s strike that has crippled the production of many of the world’s favourite programmes.
The strike has been [...]
$50 million painting stolen
Thieves broke into a museum in Brazil a got away with a massive haul of valuable paintings which included a Picasso and Portinari, the raid on the Sao Paulo Museum of Art only lasted three minutes but in this small amount of time the thieves got away with the top exhibits.
Among the haul was the [...]
Six million families struggle with debts
It’s a sad fact but in a recent report by the National Consumer Council it was found that around six million families in the UK are struggling with debts of which eighty per cent are made up of credit cards, loans and mortgages.
In the last six years the amount of people who have been seeking [...]
Jailed for malfunctioning ATM
Finding an ATM that when you withdrew cash it only took a fraction of that amount from your bank account would be something that you would keep to yourself and always make your withdrawals from it, which is exactly what Xu Ting from Guangzhou in China doing until he let his friend Guo know about [...]
December 18, 2007Googles banking tool
Despite what some people may say or think, banking online is safe, secure and more importantly the banks open all of the time, so there are no queues, parking or time wasting as there is with normal banks located in the high street, that’s if you could find one!
Now Google have introduced their iGoogle finance [...]
Man gets £41,000 phone bill
Signing for mobile phone that costs only $10 per month for unlimited mobile browsing sounds like a great idea, which is why Piotr Staniaszek from Canada signed up for it, but when he received his first bill, he could not believe his eyes, the total was around $65,000.
Clearly this was a mistake, so he left [...]
Banks get cheap money
There is a real move going on to revive the world banking industry, this is being coordinated by the US Federal Reserve and involves banks from the UK, Canada, Switzerland, USA and Europe. Where they will provide billions pounds worth of loans to banks that need it, but at very attractive rates of interest, the [...]
December 11, 2007UBS suffer sub prime loses
The large bank from Switzerland UBS has posted massive losses that are directly linked to the US sub prime market collapse; in their loss of nearly £5 billion is the highest amount so far of all of the banks so far.
The bank has been supported by funds from major investors like the Government of Singapore [...]
Mobile phone number madness
In these days of excess, it would seem that there is nothing that the super rich would not buy and in many cases the price has no bearing on the actual value of the product.
In this we are talking about a simple mobile phone number, clearly its not going to be your average number like [...]
Women take control of finances
A role that has been traditionally that of the man of the house, the main earner, is being taken over by the woman. This is partly down the fact that there are more women these days who are earning more money than the man of the house, in fact in the past five years this [...]
December 5, 2007Forty million Americans cannot afford healthcare
There is one thing about the NHS that everyone should remember and that is being free at source, because we have taken this granted it is easy to think that this service is not up to standard, but in order to put this into perspective maybe we should look at the problems in the States!
In [...]
Sperm donor to pay child support
For anyone who has donated or thinking about donating sperm, perhaps they should read this first.
Two people who work together, she wants a baby and so her co worker in the name of friendship donates what’s needed. She has a baby and they remain friends, but he sends them both gifts and cards on special [...]
Man told that he owes bank $211 Trillion
If you are worried about how the festive season is going to cost you, then fear not because there is always going to be somebody else who is worse off than you.
Just imagine, getting a letter a from your bank, saying that you owe them a mere $211 trillion, just to put that amount in [...]