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Recession may be at end – but hold tight for rough ride ahead

20.10.09
Is the recession over? That question will finally be answered on Friday when gross domestic product figures for the third quarter are published... more

Recession ‘will be the worst since Second World War’

20.07.09
Hopes of economic recovery in the UK are “running ahead of reality”, a leading think-tank warned today as it forecast the deepest recession since the end of the Second World War... more

OECD attacks S&P for ‘inexplicable’ downgrade

22.05.09
Standard & Poor’s experienced a backlash after it threatened to cut Britain’s AAA credit rating ... more

Shares slump over fears of ‘grimmest Budget in years’

20.04.09
Shares in London tumbled as the City braced itself for one of the grimmest Budgets in years... more

Budget in disarray as UK dives deeper into the red

19.03.09
The Chancellor was given a splitting headache over the Budget as recession plunged Britain deeper into the red... more

£125bn blackhole as tax receipts plunge

23.10.08
THE Government could face a £125billion black hole as the country tips into recession, an Evening Standard investigation reveals... more

Banks urged to pass on rate cuts as inflation nears peak

20.10.08
Britain could suffer a Seventies-style recession if banks fail to pass on interest-rate cuts, economic experts say... more

Boost for London's hopes on property and retail

21.07.08
London will stave off the worst of the house-price slump, and is still enjoying strong sales on the High Street, two major studies show... more

Who do you think you are kidding, Darling?

04.07.08
The City is at loggerheads with Alistair Darling after he refused to downgrade his bullish forecasts for economic growth... more

Price fears hold Bank back from a rate cut

08.05.08
The Bank of England resisted calls to make its first back-to-back cut in interest rates in nearly seven years as the threat of rising inflation persisted... more

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