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‘Could have been worse’ City says to BA and RBS numbers

06.11.09
Investors were doing their best to look on the bright side today after the combined losses from Royal Bank of Scotland and British Airways reached £1.79 billion during the first six months of the year ... more

City remains positive despite shockers from BA and RBS

06.11.09
Stock market investors were doing their best to look on the bright side today after the combined losses from Royal Bank of Scotland and British Airways reached £1.79 billion during the first six months of the year ... more

King Kong: Why Hong Kong is booming again

06.11.09
Hong Kong used to be the place to go to seek your fortune when you'd failed in the City. But now only the most successful Londoners can afford to brave the high-risk, high-rise island... more

Father and son had Chinese meals code for insider trading

05.11.09
Father and son who used coded messages about Chinese meals to exchange illegal share tips convicted of insider trading that made them more than £100,000... more

British Airways is tumbling despite Iberia deal hopes

05.11.09
Is the board of British Airways about to buy a one-way ticket to Madrid? That was the story doing the rounds in the Square Mile this morning amid claims that the proposed merger with Spanish carrier Iberia could be completed by the second quarter of next year ... more

Goldman bans parties during festive season

03.11.09
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Banks and miners punished as investors head for exits

03.11.09
Leading shares were struggling to hold above the 5000 level today, as investors headed for the exits... more

Be afraid! A year after AIG, derivatives remain big risk

12.10.09
The global financial crisis has introduced ordinary people to the extraordinary and arcane world of “derivative product”... more

Merger mania gets Wall St buzzing again

28.09.09
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

Wall Street's latest bet: how quickly will Americans die?

15.09.09
One year from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event that was supposedly so seismic that things would never be the same again, and what’s changed on Wall Street? Almost nothing... more

Wall Street 2: Gordon Gekko is back

14.09.09
After more than two decades Oliver Stone is making a sequel to Wall Street. Our reporter agrees it’s the perfect time for the monster to be reincarnated... more

Marks & Spencer shares rally after brokers show support

03.09.09
Shares in the UK’s best-known retailer Marks & Spencer were heading back towards their high for the year today with the help of another broker’s recommendation ... more

Punters battered by volatile market buoyed by miners

03.07.09
Stock market investors might have wished for a better start to the second half of the year. As it is they've taken something of a battering, with the prospect of further volatility to come ... more

Bank recruits American who called for Wall Street heads to roll

16.06.09
An American economist who recently called for Wall Street bank chief executives to be fired is joining the Bank of England's interest-rate setting monetary policy committee... more

Bank of America profits massively ahead of expectations

20.04.09
Bank of America has stunned Wall Street with first-quarter profits hugely ahead of anyone’s expectations... more

Were the threats to quit all a big hoax?

02.04.09
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Uphill struggle for traders as good news hard to find

26.03.09
City traders and fund managers face an uphill battle over the next few days to put a gloss on things before the final quarter draws to a close... more

Banks feel the chill as US rescue plan deepens fears

11.02.09
Bank shares came under the hammer again today following a big sell-off of bank shares on Wall Street overnight, where investors are fretting about their wholesale nationalisation in the wake of the US Treasury's $2 trillion bank rescue scheme... more

Let's see gold gods shackled

05.02.09
The hordes are baying now in Manhattan, eager for punishment to be rendered up and down Wall Street and Park Avenue. They want to see more than just resignations, bankruptcies and abject apologies. They want justice.... more

Will the rich ditch tax dodges for Obama

22.01.09
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Footsie bright spot as shares stage a rally

16.01.09
Finance: The huge problems engulfing the banking sector have not gone away, but stock-market investors were making the most of a technical rally today which brought to an end a seven-day losing streak... more

Footsie bright spot as shares stage a rally

16.01.09
Finance: The huge problems engulfing the banking sector have not gone away, but stock-market investors were making the most of a technical rally today which brought to an end a seven-day losing streak... more

Market report: Debt-heavy 3i dives to another new low

24.12.08
Two years ago the fortunes of private-equity companies were riding high, but not any more. The credit crunch and subsequent stock market crash have made life difficult for the likes of 3i Group, which saw its shares slump to yet another new low today.... more

Market report: Financials to the fore as high-risk Fed is snubbed

17.12.08
The response of London stock-market investors to the Federal Reserve's move to cut rates to within a range of between zero and a quarter point was far less enthusiastic than that of their counterparts on Wall Street overnight.... more

FTSE plunges as Republicans bid to block US bail-out plans

20.11.08
The FTSE-100 Index tumbled below the 4000 barrier as traders sold shares across the world... more

Bounce goes out of global share markets

06.11.08
The Obama Bounce looks well and truly over as stock markets around the world plunged on growing fears of a prolonged global recession... more

Hope of cut sends shares soaring

29.10.08
Hopes of deep interest rate cuts on both sides of the Atlantic sent the stock market soaring... more

Fear gripping stock market

10.10.08
Blind panic swept through the City once again as the Stock Market collapsed... more

Autonomy gets some legal aid

03.10.08
Technology: Soaring litigation against Wall Street banks and American insurance companies has proved great news for Autonomy, the UK-based software group... more

Don’t blame bankers, it’s down to a man called Bill

03.10.08
It wasn’t just greed that fuelled the sub prime crash, but a critical decision by Bill Clinton to force banks to lower their lending standards... more

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