BT pensions hole grows to Â£3.4bn
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BT sees its pension fund deficit hit Â£3.4bn, and will raise its contributions from next year.
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The UK's biggest building society increases its tracker rates for the second time in three months.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are wrongly told they have a gap in their tax records that could affect their pension.
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BT Group disposed yesterday of its last remaining stake in a satellite company when it sold its 15.8% holding in the Paris-based Eutelsat for Â£363m.
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BT Group Plc, the UK&#39;s largest phone operator, agreed to sell its stake in Eutelsat SA for 363 million pounds ($685 million) in cash, marking the company&#39;s exit from the satellite operating business.
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Britain's budget deficit ballooned last month, when the public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR) rose to 10.8 billion pounds (15.5 billion euros, 19.5 billion dollars), the biggest September shortfall on record, official figures showed.
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The Golden Telecom acquisition would cost it $4.3 billion.
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British Airways PLC said Friday its pensions fund deficit more than doubled and angered unions by proposing an increase in the retirement age and limiting pay raises as a way to reduce it.
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Treasury proposes to cut Â£4.5bn from the defence budget over the next three years
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BT Group has extended an existing human resources outsourcing deal with Accenture with a new 10-year contract valued at Â£306 million ($576 million), the companies announced Wednesday. The deal will begin in August and will cover BT's HR functions in 38 countries for all of its 97,000 employees and 180,000 BT pensioners. The previous five-year outsourcing contract only covered employees in the U.K. Accenture will provide services such as customer contact, recruitment, pension administration, payroll, and benefits administration. The business process outsourcing (BPO) contract with London-based BT also has a consulting, or what companies like IBM are increasingly calling "transformation," element to it. As part of its consulting role, Accenture will create a "transition program" with BT before the August roll-out of the contract.
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The US agency that insures the pensions of 44 million workers said its deficit more than doubled to $23.3 billion this year on the expectation additional company retirement plans will fail.
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Business & money: 9.30am: Shares in the bank jumped almost 3% after recommendation.
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Three quarters of people in the UK welcome compulsory pensions but not if  they have to pay more, a study says.
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Falling stock markets and interest rates have wiped &pound;15bn off the value of UK company pension schemes so far this year, calling into question their investment strategies and reviving concerns about underfunding.
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The number of complaints about mis-selling and poor administration of pensions soars.
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Richard and Judy also fingered BT's ongoing round of sackings has caused a slump in profits as it counts the cost of offloading middle managers, the national telco said today.â¦
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Bags big share of broadband latecomers BT shares jumped four per cent this morning after another set of strong quarterly results.â¦