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It may hurt, but oil price is now about right for us all

02.06.09
SOME would have it that the recent rise in the oil price is evidence of optimism - a sign that the global economy is getting stronger and that the prospects of recession turning into depression have dimmed.... more

Dr Doom of Wall St is big loser with Madoff

31.12.08
Scandal: Top Wall Street economist, Henry Kaufman, dubbed Dr Doom for his bearish predictions, has emerged as a big loser in the Bernard Madoff scandal... more

Obama hands veteran the job of restoring watchdog's image

18.12.08
Regulation: Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro is to get the tricky job of restoring confidence in key US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Barack Obama administration... more

US regulator: We failed to stop Madoff

18.12.08
The alarm bells in the $50 billion fraud by disgraced American financier Bernard Madoff had been ringing for years but US regulators admitted they ignored them... more

US watchdog to probe own links with Madoff niece

17.12.08
Scandal: US regulators have launched a full-scale probe into their failings over the Madoff scandal... more

The beginning of the end says the City’s top player

09.10.08
After yesterday’s £500 billion bail out to the banks, Michael Spencer, the richest self-made man in the Square Mile talks exclusively to the Standard about who’s to blame... more

US drops curbs on short selling

11.08.08
Restrictions are to be lifted this week with evidence mounting that the measures failed... more

US crackdown on short selling

30.07.08
Security regulators in the US have extended an emergency rule to curb the short selling of major firms' stocks... more

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