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Resurgent Footsie records its strongest quarter

30.09.09
The FTSE 100 index set the record of the strongest quarterly performance as investors flooded back into shares following the chaos of the financial crisis ... more

Burberry bounce for Footsie as boss says luxury goods ‘can only get better’

23.09.09
Forget the pinstripes, checks are all the rage in the City. Burberry shares shot up more than 7%, taking the fashion group to the top of the leaderboard at its new home in the FTSE 100 Index... more

Nerves threat to the Footsie's rally

18.09.09
With the FTSE 100 poised to break through the psychologically important 5200 barrier, the overriding issue is one of investor confidence in the rally... more

Recession rattles the bonus system

07.09.09
Performance pay schemes for executives were, according to the late Alastair Ross Goobey, the one-time head of pension fund manager Hermes, very much like the Caucus race in Alice in Wonderland ... more

Rally lifts FTSE above 4900

25.08.09
Shares in London extended their winning streak into a sixth day with the FTSE 100 index passing the 4900 barrier... more

Footsie firms ‘cannot pay off £80bn pension fund deficits’

13.08.09
One in five FTSE 100 companies will be unable to pay off their pension fund deficits, a leading accountancy firm warned ... more

Pensions blackhole deepens to record £96bn

05.08.09
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Short-sellers left squealing as the Yell picture brightens

23.07.09
The smell of burnt fingers seeped through the City as Yell's short-sellers watched its shares rocket... more

Company pension deficit hits a record £300 billion

16.07.09
The total size of the pension deficit of all the companies listed in the FTSE-100 Index has more than doubled to a record £300 billion since January... more

Cazenove property lift

06.07.09
It has been a hell of a ride for those stock-market investors that dared to test the commercial property market at the start of the year ... more

Thin time in the City

06.07.09
Stock market investors were feeling the strain on their return to work this morning. The absence of a lead from Wall Street, which was closed on Friday for Independence Day, and a lacklustre performance by Asian markets this morning offered City folk little in the way of inspiration ... more

Eco-stocks are bubbling again

02.07.09
So rudely interrupted by the financial crisis of the last year, the green energy stock-market bubble is beginning to inflate again ... more

Footsie surges by 2%

05.05.09
Those who think we are at the start of a long bull market for shares got a further slice of evidence today, the FTSE 100 enjoying another move upwards as traders returned from the bank holiday weekend with optimism ... more

IHG is hard hit by sellers wary of pandemic gloom

01.05.09
Three days is a long time in a nascent pandemic. There is every chance that the markets will re-open on Tuesday with 72 hours worth of panic-hewn news to digest... more

Stocks get wobbles in London and NY

20.04.09
Shares on both sides of the Atlantic fell sharply this afternoon, dropping back through their respective support levels. ... more

BT a winner as tough talk on pension deficit cheers

17.04.09
BT raced up the FTSE 100 winner’s board today on talk that it is planning an all-out attack on its pensions deficit by issuing a multi-billion-pound bond... more

Finance and property firms face chop from the Footsie

10.03.09
Such has been the pace and the scale of the stock market sell-off since the start of the year that the profile of the benchmark FTSE 100 index is set for another major makeover... more

Shares slump amid job cuts and soaring home repossessions

20.02.09
Shares in London slumped on fresh fears over the state of the economy and a heavy sell-off in New York... more

Housebuilders fall 85% to be worst sector of year

31.12.08
Markets: Housebuilding shares closed down 85% on the year, making it the worst 12 months in the sector's history... more

£65bn wiped off value of company pension schemes

31.12.08
Company pensions have taken a massive hit in the recession, with billions of pounds wiped off the value of schemes to support retiring employees... more

Market report: Bargain hunters boost the Footsie

29.12.08
Bears in the stock market were feeling the squeeze in a market place desperately short of stock... more

Market report: Unilever’s £1.3bn puts a shine on the shares

30.10.08
Unilever, the world’s second-biggest supplier of consumer products, today celebrated a bumper rise in third-quarter profits with a share-price jump of 29p to 1372p... more

Analysts predict 'end of world as we knew it' as shares plunge

27.10.08
Share prices could be heading for levels not seen for 13 years, City analysts have warned... more

Borat is no barometer of the nation’s health

27.10.08
Time and again, the TV news treats us to a report on the FTSE 100 against a backdrop of shoppers laden with carrier bags from shops that are not in the index. The two bear no relation to each other... more

HBOS shares slide to half rescue price

24.10.08
HBOS shares crash to almost half the price at which the Government has offered to buy them ... more

It’s worse than you think, says chartist

10.10.08
One of the City’s leading “chartists” revealed the 20% fall in the FTSE 100 this week has put it back to a level not seen since the great crash of 1987. ... more

Credit crunch puts brake on activity at 3i

25.09.08
Private-equity firm 3i said the slowdown in mergers and acquisitions as a result of the credit crunch meant new investment fell almost 40% in the first five months of the year... more

Market report: Footsie targets a record rise thanks to the ban

19.09.08
A surprise crackdown on speculators and the promise of a wide-reaching solution to the crisis in the US financial sector triggered an unprecedented rally among leading shares with the FTSE 100, up almost 400 points, heading for its biggest ever one-day rise... more

Markets' rally fades on bailout and oil blow

09.09.08
Markets: The rally in world stock markets petered out as oil prices continued to slide ever closer to $100, and on reports that talks about a Korean-funded bailout for troubled investment Lehman Brothers had ended... more

Recession? Not in our CEOs’ pay packets

08.09.08
The economy may be slowing, stock markets falling and the outlook for company profits getting bleaker, but there is no sign yet that corporate executives are feeling the pinch... more

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