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Students stay at college to avoid joining jobless queue

17.03.10
Record number of 'recession dodging' young people are staying on as students rather than face the dole queue, official figures show... more

Bank urged not to raise interest rates despite surge in inflation to 3.5 per cent

16.02.10
Bank of England urged to leave interest rates at an all-time low despite a sudden surge in inflation... more

Bank stops quantitative easing stimulus amid ‘sluggish recovery’

04.02.10
The Bank of England makes dramatic decision to turn off printing presses as it calls a halt to quantitative easing... more

Alistair Darling borrowed ‘price of a house’ every 60 seconds

21.01.10
Alistair Darling forced to borrow more than the cost of an average London home during every minute of last year to pay for the NHS, schools and other vital public services... more

Too early to say if retail sales boom has staying power

12.01.10
Economics analysis: Stronger than we dared hope for: That is the verdict of the British Retail Consortium as figures show encouraging high street sales... more

Economy ‘in precarious’ state’ as Government’s borrowing hits £106bn

18.12.09
Government forced to borrow £20.3 billion last month to keep public services going, more than in any other month in history... more

How can we persuade them to lend us more?

18.09.09
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Rise in output lifts hopes the slump is drawing to a close

28.08.09
Hopes the recession is coming to an end were fuelled after figures showed the economy did not shrink by as much as feared earlier this year ... more

City shock as inflation blip hints at early rate rises

18.08.09
The City was wrong-footed again by shock figures showing inflation remained stubbornly above expectations last month... more

City 'experts' are left looking foolish by huge dive

24.07.09
City economists scrambling to rewrite forecasts for the year after a shocking decline in second-quarter output that none of them managed to predict... more

Worst recession for half a century

24.07.09
Hopes of swift end to economic turmoil shaken as figures reveal far worse than expected decline in economy making it the worst recession in Britain in 50 years... more

Economy gets a lift from the high street

23.07.09
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Unemployment is highest for 14 years after record rise

15.07.09
Recession has claimed Britain's biggest cull of jobs with 2.38 million unemployed, official figures revealed... more

City shocked as Bank pulls back from printing money

09.07.09
The Bank of England shocked City investors as it turned off the printing presses on its so-called quantitative easing programme ... more

Worst is over but talk of recovery is still 'premature'

07.07.09
The worst of the recession is over, but talk of recovery is premature and unemployment continues to head over three million, a leading business group predicted... more

It’s official: Britain is the nation of deflation

21.04.09
The cost of living is falling for the first time since 1960, official figures confirmed... more

Brown 'faces fighting election with 3.2million unemployed'

07.04.09
Gordon Brown will be the first Prime Minister for nearly 20 years to fight a general election with rising unemployment, a new report warned... more

More than a million on the dole with London among worst areas

17.12.08
The depth of the recession in London was underlined starkly as the jobless claimant count topped one million for the first time in eight years... more

Economists question Darling's optimism

25.11.08
Leading economists have questioned Alistair Darling's optimism about when Britain will begin to recover from the recession... more

Price of food falls as recession starts to bite

18.11.08
A dramatic fall in the rate of inflation has fuelled fears of a prolonged recession... more

Jobless total hits 1.82m as things get tougher for Britain

12.11.08
Unemployment hit an 11-year high of 1.82 million amid fears that the jobless total could near three million by 2010... more

Shock in the City as UK economy falls off a cliff

24.10.08
City analysts warned that Britain could be facing a severe recession as ¡°truly dire¡± official figures revealed that the economy is contracting much faster than expected... more

Shock in the City as UK economy falls off a cliff

24.10.08
City analysts warned that Britain could be facing a severe recession as “truly dire” official figures revealed that the economy is contracting faster than expected... more

Sales of food and drink fall for first time

23.10.08
Families have cut back on the food in their supermarket trolleys for the first time on record as the credit crunch bites deep into household budgets... more

What the analysts are saying about the financial crisis

30.09.08
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Inflation rise hits families

12.08.08
Millions of families face the nightmare prospect of soaring inflation and painfully high interest rates... more

Bank risking recession by leaving interest rates at 5%

07.08.08
The Bank of England is in danger of pushing the country into recession, business and retail leaders have warned... more

Recession just months away, warn employers

08.07.08
The economy is at "serious risk" of sliding into recession within months, according to a business survey... more

Slowdown fears pile up but Bank keeps rates at 5%

05.06.08
Bank of England left interest rates unchanged despite fears of a vicious slowdown in the economy... more

Slowdown fears pile up but Bank keeps rates at 5%

05.06.08
Bank of England left interest rates unchanged despite fears of a vicious slowdown in the economy... more

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