Here at Rubii, we aim to bring you some of the most interesting and insightful financial articles all in one place. Here are a selection of some that we think you will find enlightening. Please submit others below if you found something else of interest:
Dividends - Which are safe and which may fail (Telegraph)
The income from shares offers some protection against a bear market - unless it is cut. The Telegraph asked the experts which companies looked safest.
City law firms are offering graduate recruits up to £10,000 each to stay away from the office for a year. The move has been driven by the credit crunch, with firms fearing that trainees will not get sufficient experience, writes the Times
European consumer spending and investment contracted the most in at least 13 years in the fourth quarter, strengthening the case for the European Central Bank to step up its response to the economic crisis (Bloomberg).
Standard Chartered - A rare banking star (Businessweek)
Emerging markets bank Standard Chartered is the only British bank increasing its dividend payout and doling out bonuses this year from Businessweek / Independent
Government will have to justify retirement age of 65 in High Court - (Telegraph)
Ministers will have to meet a "high standard of proof" in claiming that employers should be allowed to force staff to stop working on the grounds of their age alone, writes The Telegraph
....and finally a couple of other interesting stories from earlier in the week:
Time right to build well-balanced portfolio: Puneet Nanda- Analysis-Markets (The Economic Times)
Japan's exports nearly halve in one year
The Worst severence packagages in the world (Tip'd)
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Enjoy - let us know what else interesting is out there and we'll try to do this again next week.
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