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How much use is a brief, small VAT reduction?

25 November 2008, 17:57

The latest government measure to reduce the severity of a recession is to reduce VAT for a year, but who does that help?

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HP revenue up on improved notebook sales and EDS acquisition

25 November 2008, 13:30

Giant system builder provides a welcome ray of sunshine to the tech sector with healthy quarterlies.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: tech stocks struggle

25 November 2008, 10:44

AMD, NVIDIA, Dell and the disties are among the losers in the continuing economic turmoil.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Chinese stimulus package boosts shares

10 November 2008, 10:51

Chinese government to spend an extra £400 billion on public projects and social welfare in bid to stimulate growth.

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NVIDIA sees quarterly profits plummet but still beat expectations

7 November 2008, 09:54

Graphics giant sees profits drop to a quarter of their level of a year ago but shares were still up in after hours trading

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Bank of England shocks with massive 1.5% cut in interest rates

6 November 2008, 12:36

The Bank of England has announced the biggest single cut in interest rates in a generation.

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HEXUS.sharewatch post-election special

5 November 2008, 21:50

After the expected Obama victory in the US Presidential elections, US stock markets suffered significant falls.

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CBI calls for full one percent interest rate cut

5 November 2008, 15:45

UK business organisation says Bank of England should chop 1% off interest rates to boost flagging economy.

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HEXUS.sharewatch pre-election special

4 November 2008, 23:03

A quick look at share prices immediately before the US election results come in.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD rallies, Microsoft doesn’t

3 November 2008, 10:43

Everyone on our list has seen their shares gain value in the last few days, except Microsoft.

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HEXUS.ratewatch: US axes interest rates again

29 October 2008, 18:50

The GBP/USD exchange rate has strengthened in the pound’s favour as the US fed cuts another 0.5% off interest rates.

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Jon Peddie Research reveals booming GPU market

28 October 2008, 18:08

Graphics industry watcher reveals year-on-year increase of 22.5 percent in global GPU market.

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How does the weakening pound affect UK technology prices?

27 October 2008, 19:06

The pound has plummeted against the dollar and prices are set to rise. We ask Scan director Elan Raja what this means for consumers.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD plunges to 17 year low

27 October 2008, 11:09

AMD’s shares have been taking even more of a pummelling than the rest of the market in the past five days.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Apple profit beats expectations thanks to iPhone

22 October 2008, 11:07

The quarterly earnings announcements are coming thick and fast with a mixture of gloom and encouragement.

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Netbooks fuel 40% notebook growth in UK

17 October 2008, 17:22

IDC’s preliminary Q3 results reveal healthy growth in PC sales in spite of the macroeconomic turmoil.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Apple bucks the trend

13 October 2008, 11:30

Amid the unremitting stock market gloom of last week Apple’s share price shows a surprise increase.

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Breaking news: world’s central banks cut interest rates

8 October 2008, 12:53

UK, US, and Europe all cut interest rates by half a percent in a coordinated move.

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UK bailout unveiled, markets unimpressed

8 October 2008, 10:25

The government has announced a £500 billion bailout package for UK banks but the FTSE 100 has lost more ground this morning.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA down, AMD up

6 October 2008, 10:48

There has been no bounce in the immediate aftermath of the US bailout being approved.

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US Congressmen fiddle while Wall Street burns

29 September 2008, 23:10

Shockwaves emanate from rejection of bailout plan by House of Representatives.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Bailout bounce short lived

29 September 2008, 10:11

Many of the gains that greeted the announcement of the US bailout plan have disappeared, but not all.

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Bank of England offers help for quarter-end

26 September 2008, 10:05

As talks on the big US bailout stall, UK, US and European banks move to inject liquidity into the financial system.

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US government bailout – is this the start of the recovery?

19 September 2008, 22:33

American taxpayer to mop up billions of dollars of bad debts, global stock markets rise steeply on the news.

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HEXUS.sharewatch special: finance sector meltdown

18 September 2008, 15:54

AMD, Apple, Dell and Microsoft all drop by over ten percent.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA takes another kicking

15 September 2008, 09:24

A class action suit over its die/packaging crisis will have further dented investor confidence in NVIDIA.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Tech sector plunges

8 September 2008, 11:02

Dell and everyone else see a drop this week, but there are grounds for optimism.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD continues to gain

1 September 2008, 07:38

A series of positive announcements has seen AMD shares gain 55% in the past month or so.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA and AMD show big gains

18 August 2008, 13:49

The two semiconductor companies both see jumps in their share prices after a busy week.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Big week for tech stocks led by AMD

11 August 2008, 16:25

Every stock in our list gained value last week, with AMD’s jumping by nearly 20 percent.

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Jon Peddie thinks Larrabee could boost PC gaming market by a third

8 August 2008, 10:36

In the second of his blog posts on Intel’s discrete graphics project, the graphics expert suggests it could benefit the whole market.

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IDC: Price cutting drives healthy UK PC growth

6 August 2008, 14:25

The final Q2 figures for the UK PC market reveal massive growth in notebooks driven by heavy price cutting.

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Yahoo! board not out of the woods yet

6 August 2008, 11:54

A “tabulation error” means half the board received far fewer votes for their re-election than first thought.

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