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ECONOMICS
America's job losses 'is a nail in the coffin'
Fears that the US economy is heading into a recession were compounded by the first fall in employment in almost four-and-a-half years.
02 Feb 2008
Central bankers are fiddling as Rome burns
MPC dove breaks ranks and calls for interest rate cut after predicting serious slowdown. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports
29 Jan 2008
Fed risks 'blood on the floor' on rate cuts
The Federal Open Markets Committee may want further rate cuts but inflation fears limit their options, writes David Litterick
29 Jan 2008
Chinese shares tumble on US recession fears
Wild fluctuations on the Chinese stock markets continued yesterday as the Shanghai Composite index of "A" and "B" shares fell by more than 7pc.
29 Jan 2008
CDC's legacy of caring capitalism
CDC's basic mission remains the same: to make money at the same time as alleviating hardship - capitalism with a conscience, you could call it.
28 Jan 2008
CDC plans biggest investment in its history
CDC Group, the private equity business owned by the Government, is making the biggest financial commitment in its 60-year history by investing nearly $1bn (£505m) in a new emerging market infrastructure fund.
28 Jan 2008
US recession will dwarf dotcom crash
The recession facing the United States is of a scale that dwarfs the dotcom slump. The slowdown will cause a damaging regulation backlash as governments attempt to compensate for the financial pain facing families. Britain faces a similar plight, though it may avoid as deep a slowdown as the US.
28 Jan 2008
Monoliners may make financial crisis a whole lot worse
Who said high finance was boring? Last week, as markets gyrated and the US central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates, the new obsession for the markets, the media and ordinary people alike was whether we are heading for recession. Well, are we or aren't we, and if so, what can be done about it?
28 Jan 2008
Pointing fingers at the plutocrats
In an extract from his provocative book Who Runs Britain?, Robert Peston looks at the roots of the current financial crisis and blames a political pact with the super-rich for impoverishing the rest of us
26 Jan 2008
Volatility in global markets is not over yet
It was one of the hairiest weeks the global markets have ever known. Swings of more than 600 points on the Dow, the biggest ever one-day points fall - and rise - for the FTSE, and the world's biggest rogue trading scandal.
26 Jan 2008
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