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Union 'appalled' at HSBC job cuts

BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

The Unite union says it is "appalled" at HSBC's plans to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK, including all 750 staff in Southend-on-Sea.

HSBC to shed more UK staff

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

The bank plans to slash about 1,700 jobs in UK back-office functions, affecting mainly collections and credit card operations, in the next 12 to 18 months

• Business News: New blow to banking sector as 1700 jobs to go at HSBC - The Daily Record
• HSBC to cut almost 2,000 jobs - Metro.co.uk
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Nick Watney ties course record

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

• American equals course record with eight-under-par 64 • Woods again frustrated by camera-wielding crowds Nick Watney tied the course record with a virtually flawless eight-under-par 64 to claim a two-stroke first-round lead at the World Golf Championships – HSBC Champions tournament. The American Watney, who won this year's Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines in California, carded...

Watney has early HSBC lead over Tiger, others

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nick Watney has tied the course record at Sheshan International with an 8-under 64 to take the early lead in the HSBC Champions and give himself another chance at winning a World Golf Championship.

Watney leads HSBC Champions, Woods two back

TeeOff Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The best players in the world are in China for the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions at the Sheshan International Golf Club. Nick Watney lead after the first round with Tiger Woods, fresh off his FedEx Cup win, in the hunt. Watney shot a course-record eight-under par, 64, to open the final World Golf Championship event of [...]

WGC-HSBC Champions: Tiger Woods' appeal only partially felt in China

ESPN (Free subscription) | yesterday

The cavalcade that followed Tiger in Round 1 of the HSBC Champions created a circus atmosphere. Despite the attention, Woods' star isn't nearly as high in China as one might expect, writes ESPN.com's Dan Washburn.

Watney leads, Tiger 3 back at HSBC Champions

Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Making the first of two trips to China this month, Nick Watney made an immediate impression Thursday in the HSBC Champions by tying the course record with an 8-under 64 to build a two-shot lead. As hundreds of cameras inside and outside the ropes tagged along to see Tiger Woods open with a 67, Watney quietly went about his business on a sunny afternoon at Sheshan International Golf Club with an accidental...

Nick Watney shoots 64 to take lead at HSBC Champions

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

SHANGHAI - Making the first of two trips to China this month, Nick Watney made an immediate impression Thursday in the HSBC Champions by tying the course record with an 8-under...

Watney shoots 64 to take lead at HSBC Champions

Examiner (Free subscription) | yesterday

Making the first of two trips to China this month, Nick Watney made an immediate impression Thursday in the HSBC Champions by tying the course record with an 8-under 64 to build a two-shot lead.

Watney goes low for HSBC Champions lead

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nick Watney matched the course record at Sheshan International Golf Club on Thursday with an eight-under 64 and took the first-round lead of the WGC-HSBS Champions.

HSBC to shed a further 1,700 jobs

Banking Times: Daily Banking News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

HSBC is to shed a further 1,700 UK jobs as it overhauls its branch network management structure and merges some of its operations. Total job losses announced by the group so far this year now amount to around 3,400. According to a Channel 4 News report, 600 jobs will go at the bank’s Southend site and just [...]

Barclays, HSBC Up Their Bets in Russia

Business Week (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Britain's two biggest global banks are expanding their retail banking presence in Russia as fears recede of business disputes there

BIZZ@MONEYS: Standard Chartered 79% Return Overtakes HSBC With …

pounds-and-pence.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

(Bloomberg) — Standard Chartered Plc, the third- largest bank in the United Kingdom by market value, wants to do business almost exclusively in Asia and emerging markets. Any executive of the lender who dares to depart from that strategy … Standard Chartered says it underwrote none of the subprime- mortgage -backed securities that laid low [...]

Bank On HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) and the Asian Equation

Investment U (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Bank On HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) and the Asian Equation Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research “Go west, young man, go west!” Written by Indiana journalist John Soule in 1851 and popularized by New York Tribune founder Horace Greeley the same year, that now-famous saying advised people to take advantage of the rapid growth in the [...]

Woods In His Comfort Zone In HSBC Champions

CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Tiger Woods is playing for the third time in China with a strategy he's used in winning 81 times around the world. "Finish lower than anybody else," Woods said Wednesday at the HSBC Champions.

ERC Edward Robinson & Co Liverpool - "Audit Lock Down" - $1,000,000,000 FBI SOCA Carroll Trust Case

carrolltrust | 04/11/2009

Edward Robinson & Co Liverpool (ERC) have confirmed that ERC has joined forces with Westmore Brennand Chartered Accountants creating a larger firm with five partners and over twenty staff. The new alliance will trade as ERC Edward Robinson & Co "incorporating" Westmore Brennand. Westmore’s Liverpool office has now closed and all staff and operations have relocated to ERC’s Brunswick Business Park offices.

Kingston Smith LLP Accountants "Audit Trail" - Lock-Down - FBI SOCA Carroll Trust Case

carrolltrust | 03/11/2009

Kingston Smith LLP Chartered Accountants partner Michael Sinclair FCA auditors to the Carroll Foundation Trust's underlying 6 (six) surviving global group structures has confirmed that there is a complete forensic "audit trail lockdown" of the primary fraudulent Carroll Trust structure Carroll Holdings Corporation Ltd on "register" at the HM Government DTI Companies House Section Cardiff UK. The London

Police Authorities Kent and Essex Forces "target" Haslers M J Chappell Bahamas Offshore Crime Syndicate

carrolltrust | 27/10/2009

The Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust one billion dollars “cross-border” international crime case is bringing in high level law enforcement officers from the FBI Washington DC field office and Scotland Yard Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in concert with the Essex and Kent Police Forces. HM Revenue & Customs high level compliance offshore section officers are co-ordinating the cross-border