News Headlines - 04 July 2012

▽BOE Minutes Show Tucker Aware Of Libor Fixing Claims In 2007 | MNI

Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker, long the BOE's leading internal candidate for the top job when Mervyn King's term comes to an end at the middle of 2013, was fully aware from the early days of the financial crisis that market participants believed Libor was being rigged.

▽Barclays Under Pressure to Find an External CEO Successor

Barclays is under pressure to find an external candidate to distance the bank from Chief Executive Officer Bob Diamond, who quit after the lender was fined for rigging Libor rates.

▽BBC News - Leaders clash over Barclays rate-rigging inquiry

David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed in the Commons over the terms of an inquiry into the interest rate-rigging scandal surrounding Barclays.

▽BBC News - Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

▽Higgs boson: Give Professor Higgs a knighthood, say colleagues - Telegraph

Professor Peter Higgs, the British scientist who first suggested the existence of the “God particle”, should be knighted and awarded a Nobel prize following the discovery of the Higgs boson, leading physicists have said.