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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 17th February 2012

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Welcome to our weekly news round up for the week ending the 17th February. Tensions remain in the Eurozone and the pressure on the UK was taken up a notch with Moody’s rating agency’s announcement. A less weighty piece of financial news was revealed with the Barclays bank ‘Pingit’ money-sending service launched. And to brighten [...]

Tags: banks, Eurozone, Greece, rating agencies

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 10th February 2012

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the biggest financial news stories of the week. It’s a new week, but some old stories are still around, with a few new twists. £50 billion more QE from the Bank of England For the 35th month running, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep [...]

Tags: Bank of England, banks, Eurozone

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 3rd February 2012

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Welcome to our financial news round up for the week ending 3rd February 2012. Even though we’re now well into 2012, looking at the FTSE100, we get a feeling of deja vu with its ups and downs being very similar to 2011′s volatility. News about Glencore and Xstrata’s possible merger gave it a boost to [...]

Tags: banks, house prices, investments, mortgages, Royal bank of Scotland

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Worldwide Golf Tournament Comes Down To One Shot

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Months of competition came down to the final hole as the winner of the 2011 Worldwide Financial Planning Business Services Golf League was crowned. 30 members of Cornwall’s business community battled it out from April to December, but it was Scott Burridge Commercial’s Carl Jenkin who took the title. Carl became the fifth winner of [...]

Tags: golf, Local business, Worldwide Financial Planning

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 20th January 2012

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Week ending 20th January 2012 Welcome to our weekly news round-up for the week ending 20th January. Dominating the financial news this week have been downgrades and drops – with Standard and Poor’s rating downgrades of several EU countries, including France, and a 0.6% drop in the UK inflation rate. Interesting times… • EDF Energy [...]

Tags: banks, investing

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 23rd December 2011

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Week ending 23rd December 2011 Welcome to Worldwide’s final financial news round-up of 2011! It’s been a difficult year for the financial sector and the economy, with wild fluctuations in the markets and continuing uncertainty in the Eurozone. The US, too, suffered the humiliation of a credit downgrade by one of the ‘big three’ ratings [...]

Tags: foreign currency, FTSE100, pensions, tax

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 16th December 2011

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Week ending 16th December 2011 Christmas is just around the corner, but good news in the financial world is still in short supply. Unemployment up, retail sales down. But the good news for some is that Mary Portas is championing the cause of the High Street with her report on the state of Britain’s shops. [...]

Tags: banks, car insurance, FTSE100, stock market

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Worldwide Appoints Employee Benefit Specialist

Monday, December 19th, 2011

An award-winning Cornish firm of independent financial advisers has expanded its team to allow it to increase its offering to the corporate market. Worldwide Financial Planning, which has offices in Truro and Wadebridge, has welcomed employee benefit specialist, Dean Laley, on board. Mr Laley has spent the last 20 years working in London working for [...]

Tags: Employee benefits, Worldwide Financial Planning

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The St Mawgan’s Eccentric Gentlemen’s Pram Push for Charity

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Sunday the 11th December saw the St Mawgan’s Eccentric Gentlemen’s Mutual Association take part in the annual St Mawgan’s Pram Push Event. Worldwide’s Director Neil Chamberlain, himself an Eccentric Gentleman of St Mawgan, took part as usual. He and his team dressed as pharaohs and pushed a pyramid shaped pram. We were all delighted that [...]

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