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Citywire Investment News

• Tech trusts: should the betamax moments turn you off?
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:22:40 Z
  The tech sector has enjoyed a spectacular three-year run, but the wide discounts in the closed-end soace may be a telling sign investors still bear a grudge after the 2001 crash. 
  

• Investment complaints at Barclays Bank jump 77% in 2011
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:14 Z
  Complaints linked to investments at Barclays spiked between 2010 and 2011, despite a broader 30% fall in gripes about the bank's other services.
  

• FundsNetwork strikes platform deal with Barclays Stockbrokers
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:42:24 Z
  Fidelity FundsNetwork has struck an exclusive deal with the bank to provide its core fund platform in a move which will see it go head to head with the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown.
  

• Alan Miller teams with Deutsche to launch UK's first ETF of ETFs
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:25:09 Z
  SCM Private is launching the first exchange traded fund (ETF) of ETFs in the UK in conjunction with db X-trackers, to provide a low-cost, actively managed multi-asset strategy.
  

BBC Business News

• HP sales fall short of forecasts
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:45 GMT
  Computer firm Hewlett-Packard sees a drop in first-quarter sales, as it attempts to turn itself around under new chief executive Meg Whitman.
  

• South Korea wins Navy tanker deal
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:51:46 GMT
  The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.
  

• Obama seeks US corporate tax cut
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:26:09 GMT
  US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy.
  

• Bank members voted for £75bn QE
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:49:37 GMT
  Minutes show two of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee wanted more money pumped into the economy, sending sterling down on the currency markets.
  

BBC News

• South Korea wins Navy tanker deal
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:51:46 GMT
  The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.
  

• McDowell out of World Match Play
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:51:42 GMT
  Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell is knocked out in the first round of the World Match Play Championship by South Korea's YE Yang.
  

• Celtic 2-0 Dunfermline
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:51:11 GMT
  Celtic ease to victory over bottom side Dunfermline to go 20 points clear of Rangers at the top of the SPL.
  

• Argentina train crash 'kills 49'
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:50:35 GMT
  A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.