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ING’s £7bn issue to help pay off bailout

26.10.09
Dutch bank ING today outlined plans to repay government rescue funds by raising billions of euros from investors ... more

US jobs shock rattles Footsie

02.10.09
FTSE tumbles back below 5,000 as awful unemployment figures emerge from the US and the City frets that the global economy could be heading back into recession... more

Surge in home loans, store sales lift hope of recovery

20.08.09
Hopes of economic recovery have been fuelled by a sharp rise in mortgage lending and improved sales on the High Street... more

Crunch takes fizz out of property jamboree

03.03.09
The once-mighty Mipim international property trade fair in Cannes next week will see nearly 10,000 fewer people attending than last year as the economic crisis keeps delegates from London and around the world at home... more

Dark time for Europe as recession deepens

13.02.09
Economics: Europe is bracing itself for a deep and prolonged recession after figures showed the German and French economies in sharp decline... more

'Deep recession' puts zero rates in prospect

11.02.09
Economy: City economists predicted the Bank of England would slash rates quickly to zero per cent following the gloomy assessment of the economy from Governor Mervyn King... more

New 1% loan rate is lowest in history

05.02.09
The Bank of England has slashed its interest rate to an all-time low of one per cent... more

A thumbs-up from Zandra but high-rise faces hurdles

23.01.09
Zandra Rhodes has rather spoiled the surprise planned by the developers of the Shard of Glass, Irvine Sellar and his son James. The pair will reveal designs next month for three residential towers to the south of the 310-metre Shard, which is to be built at London Bridge station... more

BG earnings suffer as spot prices slide

19.01.09
Energy: Plunging spot prices for liquefied natural gas will hit earnings hard at BG Group, analysts are warning... more

Darling guarantees UK Icesave deposit

08.10.08
Alistair Darling has pledged that the estimated 300,000 British savers with defunct internet bank Icesave would not lose any money... more

B&B lifted by new hopes of takeover

22.09.08
Banking: Fears were growing for the independent future of Bradford & Bingley as it appeared unlikely that there would be an immediate rescue bid for the £400million buy-to-let lender... more

Rate cuts forecast on King view inflation is peaking

16.09.08
Interest rates will be slashed to 3.5% from 5%, City economists forecast today, as the Governor of the Bank of England said inflation should fall next year amid fears of a stalling economy... more

Fed’s headache over rates move

05.08.08
Ben Bernanke and other top policymakers at the US Federal Reserve face a bewildering array of conflicting data... more

Shares go soaring on brighter US jobs picture

02.05.08
News from the giant American economy appears to indicate the worst of the US downturn may have passed... more

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