Everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment, but by economising on the basics it's possible to save a small fortune. Jasmine Gardner gives her advice to cash-strapped Londoners... more
On the money: The spectre of a fresh global economic crisis means homeowners who are languishing on standard variable-rate mortgages need to switch now, brokers warn... more
Ian Livingston, chief executive of British Telecom, collected £2.4 million in pay and cash bonus last year with a further £1.4 million in shares due to him in three years' time... more
Could predator be set to turn prey at Man Group?
The City is hot with talk that the hedge fund manager, which is buying rival GLG, is about to be snapped up by the Bank of New York Mellon... more
Market Round-up: The City may be celebrating news that Vince Cable will not be put in charge of reforming the nation’s banks but the sector’s shares are still sold off... more
List of those targeted in News of the World operations to hack mobile phones and purchase confidential information is a wide cross-section from the worlds of politics and showbusiness... more
A couple of years ago, it was pretty much guaranteed that from the fourth weekend of July through to the first week of September the City shut down... more
First British Airways asked staff if they felt like working for nothing. Now British Telecom says they should go and work for rivals - just for a while... more
A dramatic rise in the number of Americans who lost their jobs last month saw the US unemployment rate today rise to its highest in 25 years and raised fresh fears about the health of the world's biggest economy... more
Telecoms: BT Group has warned it could face "further substantial" charges at its troubled Global Services division as it revealed an 81% collapse in third-quarter profits... more
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT faces a near-£17 million bill after it was ordered to make several years of payments into the scheme that covers pensions when firms go bust. ... more
Its rivals may have hogged the headlines with news of further write-downs, but it was Barclays that attracted some undesired attention from brokers... more
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT issues a shock profits warning that its profits will come in some £80 million lower than expected in the year to next March... more
BT today promised millions of customers the chance to receive superfast broadband - running at five to 10 times current speeds - by the time of the London Olympics in 2012... more
It is well-known among my peers that I have no computer, that I first write illegibly by hand and then legibly - a polished transcript - on a manual typewriter... more
Ben Verwaayen signs off as chief executive of BT Group after six years in charge on a high with much better than expected trading in the final three months of its financial year... more
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