With great fanfare, Google launched its apparent Facebook-killer, Google+, this summer. So far the verdict among even the nerdiest social media nuts is: we're not sure what to do with it... more
They say you can spot a stock-market bubble when you start getting share tips from your waiter. So what does it mean when you are getting predictions of financial Armageddon from your taxi driver?... more
Charles Ferguson's documentary offers a forceful and lucid explanation of what caused the 2008 financial crisis, who's to blame and why nothing's changed since. It may leave you feeling angry... more
Public anger over coming austerity cuts will be so severe that whoever wins the next election will be out of power for a generation, Bank of
England governor Mervyn King warns... more
Is the recession over? That question will finally be answered on Friday when gross domestic product figures for the third quarter are published... more
London was today declared the leading financial centre in the world despite the global crisis which has battered the City and turned bankers into pariahs ... more
This year’s third quarter was the best performance experienced by the Footsie since records began in 1984 but HSBC has today been telling clients: you ain’t seen nothing yet ... more
Tullow Oil was one of the best blue-chip performers, climbing 84p to 1199p amid rising hopes that the world's biggest oil company ExxonMobil is poised to take a stake... more
Nouriel Roubini, dubbed Dr Doom after he predicted the financial crisis, today warned stock and commodity markets will fall as the slow pace of recovery disappoints investors ... more
Stock market investors whose confidence shows signs of wobbling following a strong performance by shares during the third quarter, were offered some reassurance... more
Analysis: Merger mania is back in America and Wall Street bankers who have spent the last year wandering in a fruitless and miserable wasteland are clamouring for a piece of the action... more
A worldwide economic apocalypse has been averted and economies around the world are on the up, according to Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist best known as Doctor Gloom... more
Banks were on the radar again today as the City braced itself for results from Bank of America and Citigroup following decent figures from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan ... more
Mixed results from US banks Citigroup and Bank of America took the gloss off the markets as the FTSE 100 index struggled to hang on to early gains ... more
The FTSE 100 was stuck close to 4000, down 1.72 at 3989.14 as the so-called Doctor Doom of the credit crunch said the recent strength of stockmarkets was not a rally in shares but a “bear market rally”... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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