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Morgan Stanley casts cloud over Thomas Cook and Tui

20.11.09
Shares of the UK’s two biggest package holiday operators were among the heaviest blue-chip fallers today after one broker decided that their outlook was far from sunny... more

Taylor Wimpey is upbeat on housing

04.11.09
Conditions in the UK’s housing market are “signficantly better” than this time last year, according to Taylor Wimpey... more

Short-sellers' fingers start twitching as banks go cheap to raise cash

08.10.09
Selling short can be a perilous manoeuvre in the current stock market climate... more

House market's triple boost of good news

05.08.09
Confidence in the housing market received a triple boost as prices appeared to have bottomed out... more

Housing market boost from Taylor Wimpey

05.08.09
Confidence in the housing market took a boost as prices looked to have bottomed out and builder Taylor Wimpey said summer sales were solid ... more

Taylor Wimpey sparks builder surge as it calls end of slump

19.06.09
Britain's housebuilders were surging on the stockmarket after industry giant Taylor Wimpey called the end of the housing slump... more

Taylor Wimpey set for new cash chase

08.05.09
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey launched a £510 million cash call, almost a year after a similar attempt failed in spectacular fashion... more

Goldman says door open to gains in building sector

08.04.09
Hard on the heels of yesterday’s record losses of £1.9 billion from housebuilder Taylor Wimpey comes news that Goldman Sachs has upgraded two other companies in the sector because it thinks they look good value for money... more

Wimpey wins borrowing deal worth £2.5bn

07.04.09
Debt-ridden housebuilder Taylor Wimpey said that its vital refinancing is “substantially complete” and that trading since New Year is ahead of expectations... more

Debts slashed at troubled builder Taylor

13.01.09
Property: Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey said it has reduced its debt-mountain from £1.9 billion to £1.55 billion in the last six months ... 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

Wimpey gets house in order with lenders

23.12.08
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey says it will agree new terms with its lenders by the end of this year as it struggles with debts of £1.9 billion... more

M&S and BP are tipped to lead the charge to cut divis

18.12.08
The big income funds, which look after our pensions and life assurance annuities, may have to face up to some lean stock-market pickings in 2009.... more

It's heady, but it sure ain't rock '*' roll

10.12.08
The private-equity owner of EMI, Terra Firma, which urgently needs to generate revenue is pulling out all the stops ... more

Market report: Property falls eject top builder from the Footsie

09.12.08
Taylor Wimpey's fall from grace among stock-market investors will be completed by the close of business tonight when its shares drop out of the Footsie 250 index ... more

Market report: Housebuilders welcoming relief from the rate move

04.12.08
Housebuilders were the outright winners of the move by the Bank of England monetary policy committee to slash interest rates by a full percentage point to just 2%... more

Taylor Wimpey cuts 1000 jobs with no improvement in sight

11.11.08
Construction: Builder Taylor Wimpey warned there was no end in sight to the crisis in the housing market as it axed a further 1000 staff... more

Darling plan sends builders soaring

02.09.08
Economics: Housebuilding shares soared after the Government launched plans to resuscitate the market — but analysts warned that any gains will be short-lived... more

Wimpey puts faith in bank deal as profit dives by 96%

27.08.08
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey said it was hopeful it could strike a deal by the end of the year to shore up its creaking finances as it reported a massive dive in profits... more

Building profits fall 96 per cent as crunch hits Londoners

27.08.08
Britain's biggest housebuilder, Taylor Wimpey, said profits have crashed by 96 per cent as the crisis in the housing market deepened... more

Bovis sees no way forward as it wields axe on divi

26.08.08
Bovis Homes slashed its dividend and warned that the crisis facing the housing market would continue "for the foreseeable future"... more

1000 to be axed at Persimmon amid house sales slide

07.07.08
More misery heaped on beleaguered housebuilding sector after similar cuts at Barratt and Taylor Wimpey... more

1,000 jobs go as Barratt joins victims of property sector crisis

03.07.08
Housebuilder Barratt Developments is axing about 1,000 jobs to cope with the property crisis, while building products giant Marshalls chopped 140 staff... more

Wimpey shares halve as cash call snubbed

02.07.08
Taylor Wimpey, Britain's biggest housebuilder, is in danger of collapse, a leading City broker warned... more

Builders suffer £18 billion damage as City experts say sell, sell, sell

02.07.08
The crisis crippling housebuilders has seen the value of the sector crash 87% in the last 18 months... more

Writedown in land value adds to woes for Taylor

30.06.08
Taylor Wimpey admitted that its £3.88 billion landbank has tumbled in value since the New Year as it went cap in hand to the City for funds to save it from collapse... more

Taylor Wimpey's alarm is growing over housing woe

17.04.08
The property slide is turning into a disaster for housebuilders, warns Britain's largest firm, Taylor Wimpey... more

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