| Soggy ticket sales at High Voltage festival give HMV the blues The lure of ZZ Top, Foreigner and Marillion was not enough to stop HMV Group losing £1m from its inaugural High Voltage rock festival in London's Victoria Park in the summer. telegraph.co.uk |
Executive Pay Report: top 20 earners in the FTSE 100 Chief executives in the FTSE 100 have enjoyed a pay and bonus increase for the first time since the start of the recession, according to an exclusive analysis of remuneration for The Telegraph by RTF Navigator. We list the top 20. telegraph.co.uk |
Contractor: Activity on busy rig obscured key data By HARRY R. WEBER 2010-10-08T18:28:17ZMETAIRIE, La. (AP) -- A contractor says it was hard for workers monitoring key data to know what was going on during a critical time in the final hour before the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion because so many activities were happening at once.... hosted.ap.org |
IMF fails to strike deal over currency frictions The International Monetary Fund on Saturday night failed to reach agreement on tackling mounting global "frictions" over exchange rate policies. telegraph.co.uk |
Israel Stocks: Israel stocks off record; Makhteshim-Agan falls Israeli stocks slip from the record perch they established Monday, as Makhteshim-Agan loses some of its gains from a buyout proposal while telecom carrier Bezeq falls after winning a bid for a government contract. feeds.marketwatch.com |