World leaders have agreed to toughen up regulations this week as situations such as bankers bonuses continue to bother the nation.

Bonuses should be capped and not promised for number of years to help ease the problems faced by banks.

Other talks of the IMF and bias towards Western nations were hinted and countries such as China feel they are treated unfairly when the IMF figures are concerned.

Discussion of how much capital reserves are to be held at banks brought agreements and disagreements accross the board and provided a healthy debate amongst the 20 nations.

Virgin Media are currently listed on the NASDAQ stock market in the United States. Virgin soon intends to increase this by going for a secondary lsiting in the London Stock exchange.

The plans are to attract new investors to the company to allow them to grow and provide their media services to the UK.

Virgin Media currently provides homes with internet, tv and other media services such as on demand content. They amongst the biggest internet providers in the UK along side BT / Tiscali etc.

When asked if Virgin plan to move away from 2 listings to leave it’s new London listing the company offered no comment except that it’s something they might look into, in the future.

To help further the countries broadband, Britain will face a broadband tax before the next election which will help fund money into providing more house holds with quality high speed broadband.

Currently many towns and areas don’t have the infrastructure or are too far away from exchanges to be provided with broadband speeds they pay for. The extra money will help solve this problem with the average download speed per household going up as more money in funded into the sector.

Opinion is divided however with complaints about people not using landline based broadband or those who don’t wish to use broadband being charged regardless.

The scrappage scheme, a scheme in the United Kingdom to allow car customers to trade in their car for scrap for a brand new car has been extended for an extra year.

The scheme entices people to buy new cars by offering them a decent price for the scrappage of their car.

In some cases 3-4000£ can be made to trade for a brand new car.

The car industry seems to have benefited from this as second hand sales have been increasing compared to new sales thanks to the state of the economy.

Car makers will welcome the news in the struggle to sell their cars and keep current employers in a job for the future.

Orange have broken O2’s iphone exclusivity with news that they will now ship iphones to customers.

Plans and prices are still to be announced by rumours are that they will be competitively priced compared to the o2 plans.

After Orange and T-Mobiles major deal, future news will most likely be that the iphone will come to T-Mobile as well.

The Iphone is one of the worlds most popular phones and sold millions within it’s first week of sales world wide. It features the innovative App store where applications for nearly everything can be found, whether they are free or paid.

Japans consumer prices continue to fall this month by 2.4%. This is 4 months in a row where record falls have been noted.

Deflation will continue to increase meaning less consuming spending and more debt.

The Japanese government still desperatly try and recover the situation in these hard times, however times are hard and the problem will only solve itself as time passes.

This situation has already been predicted by the Bank of Japan and if their predictions carry on to be correct will last up until March 2011.  Because of this the bank is expected to further their predictions by another year with another forecast to be released by the end of October.

Unemployment continues to rise as more and more students graduate according to sources.

With the decline in jobs and steady increase in students graduating with a 2.2 or more, competition for jobs is now more crowded than ever.

The Job Centre reports an increase of numbers going through their doors to seek employment. With less jobs to recommend and advice on the situation is getting worse with broader job seeking advice being used to get people into work.

For help with getting a job the government has set up a number of sites including the Job seekers website to get you up and running and to possibly consider starting up your own business.

The FTSE 100 stock exchange has shown some positive results following the recent successful recession leavers in other countries, such as Germany and Japan. The index finished on 4896 points,  up 45 from the opening, after briefly passing the 4900 mark during the day.

Yesterday’s good news comes after months of an upwards trend in the FTSE results, showing increasingly optimistic  outcomes for the future economy.

In related news, oil prices have also risen, finishing at around $74 yesterday, weith many market analysts predicting the prices of a barrel of oil to pass the $80 point in the near future.

Following disputes involving postal workers jobs and modernisation of the service, a number of strikes have been planned and are due to start today, Friday 7th August 2009.

This set of strikes, which is believed to be the first of several, is due to run for up to 4 days from the 7th to the 11th at varying locations throughout the UK. According to the BBC News website, the following areas are likely to be affected by delayed or unavailable services:

• Friday Birmingham vehicle operation centre; Burslem; Coventry Parcelforce Hub; Edinburgh mail centre; Essex regional distribution centre; Huntingdon; London; Northampton national distribution centre; Peterborough delivery office
• Saturday Somerset; Bristol delivery offices; Dalkeith; Edinburgh; Peterborough and Skegness
• Monday Ipswich mail centre; King’s Lynn; Stanton; Bury St Edmunds and Thetford in Norfolk
• Tuesday Stoke-on-Trent

Royal Mail claims 90% of their employees will still be working as normal , however the strikes are estimated to involve around 25,000 people. The walkouts also include Royal mail lorry and delivery drivers so it may greatly affect national services as opposed to just local ones.