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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 2nd December 2011

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Week ending 2nd December 2011 This was the week of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, much of which had been leaked before the official statement. Some good news for drivers and commuters, relatively that is, but refusal to continue the stamp duty ‘holiday’ for first time buyers caused dismay amongst many. Elsewhere, the FTSE100 bounced [...]

Tags: budget, FTSE100, pensions, property

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 25th November 2011

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Week ending 25th November 2011 Investors have had good cause to feel a little giddy this week as the FTSE100 rose, and then fell, rose, and then fell again. The situation in Europe continued to frighten the markets and economic woe remained in force in the UK with the news that incomes have fallen, in [...]

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