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Brown gives up on Blair and seeks EU consolation prize

19.11.09
Video: Gordon Brown all but gives up on Tony Blair’s hopes of becoming EU President and embarks on 'Plan B' to clinch top economic post for Britain... more

Colt clients paralysed by technical web problems

10.09.09
Major technical problems at internet service provider Colt Telecom have affected email and web access at a string of major London businesses over the past two days ... more

Blankfein calls for re-think of bonuses

09.09.09
Outsize banker bonuses came under fire from an unlikely source today — the chief executive of Goldman Sachs ... more

Turquoise trading system up for sale

18.08.09
Turquoise, the European share trading system which rivals the London Stock Exchange and was founded by nine investment banks, has been put up for sale ... more

FTSE hits new year high

13.08.09
The FTSE 100 index of leading shares hit its highest level so far this year on hopes that the global recession could be ending more quickly than expected ... more

Banks rally although bad times are round the corner

31.07.09
Banks will be back in the spotlight next week when they report second-quarter profits. But if the pin-stripes in the boardroom were expected to suffer from a touch of nerves, they were not showing it ... more

Europe's battered economy continues headlong decline

15.05.09
The crisis in the German and French economies has deepened in the last three months ... more

How can these sad exiles prefer cash to London?

12.05.09
Those now fleeing our tax rates did much to contribute to our economic woes. Despite this, we must pity them... more

London's shares step up after the bloodbath

03.03.09
Shares in London ticked slightly higher today as investors paused for breath following the recent carnage on stock markets around the world... more

Markets slump further after enduring a week to forget

20.02.09
Markets: Shares across Europe slumped as the global recession deepened and New York went into reverse... more

European recession fears see share prices tumble

08.01.09
Shares across Europe fell today amid further signs the recession in Europe will turn out to be a long, drawn-out affair... more

Euro parity on cards as pound remains weak

30.12.08
Economy: Sterling remained weak against the euro but, with £1 buying €1.029, was up 0.6 cent since Monday's dive... more

Airlines slash fares to lowest levels since 1980s

23.12.08
A price war broke out as major airlines slashed fares to their lowest levels since the Eighties... more

Emergency landing after jet hit by birds

10.11.08
A Ryanair flight made an emergency landing at a Rome airport after hitting a flock of birds, some of which smashed into the engines... more

Bank bid to claw back bonuses

24.10.08
A German bank is forcing former managers to pay back huge sums of money in bonuses because of poor financial decisions relating to the credit crunch... more

Markets in nosedive as slump fears take hold

22.10.08
Markets: World stock markets were crashing again as investors were gripped by fears of a deep and prolonged global recession... more

Freddie Mac shares plunge in Frankfurt

08.09.08
Freddie Mac shares plunged 62.5 per cent on opening in Frankfurt this morning, providing a taste of things to come this afternoon in New York... more

Wall Street and London rocket after US bailout

08.09.08
Finance: Global stock markets have roared ahead in reaction to the US bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... more

Who's in the buying queue

20.08.08
Once the investment bankers start the sell-off Gatwick and Stansted airports, there will be no shortage of prospective bidders... more

Greatfleet sale 'saves 40 jobs'

31.07.08
Administrators have sold city headhunting firm to job search company QPS, saving 40 jobs... more

New high-speed rail 'would end need for Heathrow expansion'

18.07.08
Plans for a new high-speed rail service are to be revealed on Monday in a bid to demolish the case for expansion at Heathrow... more

No end yet to crisis, says Deutsche chief

04.06.08
Co-head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank said it is too early to call end of financial crisis... more

BA's European rivals cash in after T5 fiasco

19.05.08
Thousands of business class travellers shunned British Airways and Heathrow following the Terminal 5 fiasco, figures obtained by the Evening Standard show... more

Angry DT investors in mass class action

07.04.08
The largest class-action lawsuit in German history is under way... more

Cranach the Crude

07.03.08
A new show at the Royal Academy celebrates a small German painter with a big reputation who remained parochial and primitive to the last.... more

Monkeys, cowboys and slaves

06.02.08
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is an exhilarating exhibition, a series of presentations of human survival in its many guises.... more

Confronting a genocide

23.10.07
Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.... more

Little Masters and Misses

03.08.07
In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.... more

Probe into recovery of Tate's stolen paintings

02.11.06
Police in Germany have launched an investigation into how the Tate recovered two stolen Turner paintings.... more

Genius on a small scale

04.09.06
Adam Elsheimer painted very small pictures and died when he was 32 but, as the new exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery will show, his influence was felt throughout Europe.... more

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