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How we’ve sidestepped bankruptcy pain

08.10.09
The great paradox of this recession is how few firms have gone bust. Here we are with the most abrupt and severe downturn since the depression of the 1930s, and yet businesses seem to be surviving it far better than anyone had predicted and with a remarkably low rate of major-name casualties. Woolworths has gone but among high-profile firms, even in the vulnerable retail sector, that is about it ... more

The issue of long-term bonds has to be tackled

23.03.09
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Still time for Rio to dig its way out of this spoil heap

19.02.09
Something has gone terribly wrong at Rio Tinto. The chart of the share price looks like a spoil mountain outside one of its mines, and it has achieved the impressive feat of alienating its biggest shareholders by not asking them for money. It's now on the brink of a blunder that threatens its whole future. ... more

The scaremongers selling us short

21.01.09
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We must get the balance right to solve this crisis

12.12.08
It is a depressing thought but, difficult though the credit crunch is to handle, it may be the easy part... more

Mismatch behind our misery

24.11.08
City comment: The global economic slowdown is not the fundamental problem faced by policymakers... more

End of a fun run, not the world

06.11.08
The banks should still have enough capacity to lend for deserving corporate causes, particularly if they are genuine in trying to go back to their roots... more

It's heads the bankers win, and tails we lose

11.09.08
No wonder bankers take outrageous risks. If they come off, they can go and set up their own charitable foundation, and if they fail, everyone else pays the bill... more

China trusts UK equities a lot more than we do

10.09.08
Anthony Hilton believes we should not be surprised that one of the big Chinese players now seems to own about 1% of most of the companies in the FTSE index... more

Comment: Clarke's recovery route can work for us again

21.08.08
Recession in the air, negative equity, banks with burned fingers, credit still very tight, the pound under pressure and the Chancellor preparing to borrow a billion pounds every week. Welcome back to the 1990s... more

End is nigh for commodity boom

25.06.08
If you were looking for signals that the commodities boom is at its peak, they don't come more powerfully than they did this week... more

Rock takes on new staff to deal with customers' loan troubles

30.05.08
Northern Rock is hiring hundreds of new staff to cope with an expected flood of customers getting into difficulty making their mortgage repayments... more

BAA must now be broken up

23.04.08
Now break-up or re-nationalisation seem the only options. And who wants re-nationalisation?... more

Home-price wobbles as buy-to-lets feel pinch

01.04.08
Problems in buy-to-let could easily destabilise the whole housing market... more

China must realise it is time to take charge

05.03.08
An alarming parallel can be drawn between what is happening in the world economy today and what happened in the US in the run-up to and immediately after the Wall Street Crash of 1929... more

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