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Nationwide’s alert on rally after 64% fall

20.11.09
Nationwide building society today forecast a “slow” economic recovery and warned the recent rally in house prices could run out of steam... more

Barnsley sign Hammill from Liverpool

10.08.09
Barnsley have completed the permanent signing of winger Adam Hammill after agreeing "a significant six-figure deal" with Liverpool... more

FSA stress tests factor in 12% jobless

28.05.09
The Financial Services Authority today revealed for the first time the economic disaster scenarios that it uses in its so-called stress tests on British banks and building societies ... more

Profit plummets at Nationwide

27.05.09
Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, today blamed low interest rates and a big bill for the Government’s savings protection scheme as its pre-tax profit plunged 69% to £212 million ... more

Nationwide in a safety plea for savers as it dives by 69%

27.05.09
Nationwide chief executive Graham Beale called for an immediate hike in the protection offered to all savers... more

Who’s up for the cup in the banking Premiership?

07.05.09
As the football season draws to a close — it must be because it’s raining at Lords, halting the First Test — and the football writers ponder their final vote for next week’s award, I think we need a team assessment of the UK banks ... more

Another Brown Budget, another pensions raid

23.04.09
That was not a Budget for the City and it was never going to be. Even the pre-Budget lobbying from the Square Mile was low-key and barely audible above the screams of pain from industry and the services sector... more

IMF warns crisis damage will climb to $4.1 trillion

21.04.09
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the global financial crisis was far from over, and losses by banks and other institutions will soar to a staggering $4.1 trillion by the end of 2010... more

Darling needs £50bn to cover rescued banks losses

21.04.09
More than £50 billion is expected to be set aside by the Chancellor to cover potential losses from the Government’s banks bail-out... more

Chancellor sets new rules to return banks to savers

17.04.09
Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to call for stronger regulation of mutually owned banks and building societies alongside next week's Budget as he looks at new ways to return nationalised banks into private hands... more

Building societies 'surprised' by downgrade

16.04.09
The trade body representing UK building societies said it was "disappointed and surprised" after a leading ratings agency downgraded nine of its members amid fears of rising bad debts... more

Problem solved as this new Banking Act does the business

30.03.09
Wow! We have just had a good old-fashioned bailout... more

Nationwide is given £1.6 billion to rescue building society

30.03.09
Nationwide Building Society has taken control of the healthy parts of failed rival Dunfermline after the taxpayer stumped up nearly £1.6 billion to rescue the Scottish firm... more

Darling admits family has savings with failed Dunfermline Building Society

30.03.09
Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted his family has savings with the failed Dunfermline Building Society... more

MPs still playing the system

30.03.09
The Prime Minister has said that the Home Secretary’s use of parliamentary expenses to pay for pornographic films which her husband watched was “very much a personal matter” ... more

PM must replace his grand aims with real steps to free trade

30.03.09
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Google critic’s links to PR giant and Microsoft

24.03.09
Google launches Street View, and Simon Davies of Privacy International, the group that campaigns against intrusion by businesses and governments, gets on his high horse and is quoted everywhere opposing the new service. But who is Davies? ... more

Labour hopes for by-election boost from rate cut

06.11.08
Labour was hoping for a last-minute bounce in its Glenrothes by-election campaign as the drama of the interest rate cut sank in... more

Wanted: a cunning plan to save Gordon

21.05.08
As tomorrow's by-election in Crewe threatens another Labour defeat, the PM's supporters are divided on how he should fight back ... more

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