ECONOMICS
Bank of England reaps rich reward on bailouts
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is on track to make record profits after reaping huge fees from its financial system bailout
Factories bear brunt of oil price rises
Costs of factory raw materials and overheads rise at the fastest annual pace in a year because of spike of in oil price
Osborne: I can solve Britain’s £178bn problem
The Shadow Chancellor could be about to graduate to managing the country’s finances, and he wants to take the fast track
Where did the UK’s structural debt come from?
Following this week’s Pre-Budget Report, theories abound on whether to blame the recession or just good old overspending
Gilt slide continues as debt fears linger
Market for government stock hit again amid mounting worries over the UK's credit rating in wake of Pre-Budget Report
British groups move from Dubai to Abu Dhabi
Mouchel, the management consultancy, and Carillion, the UK’s second-largest construction company, are cutting their losses
ANALYSIS: Rising gilt prices show investors' fears
The views of Investors matter more than those of credit rating agencies. By raising gilt prices they are speaking volumes
Factory gate prices jump ahead
Rising oil prices prompt raw materials costs for British factories to rise at fastest annual pace in a year
Fiscal deficit puts UK's AAA rating under threat
Leading credit rating agency, Moody's, warns of a cut by 2013 if Britain fails to return its finances to order
Britain’s wealth is unbalanced and uneven
These new figures from the ONS show how and why the economic equilibrium and equality should never be taken for granted
Greece vows to ‘clean up’ its debt mountain
George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister, called an all-party crisis meeting, with the aim of reassuring markets
Botín urges Spain to act as rating slides
The head of Europe’s biggest bank urged greater efforts to maintain international investor confidence
Rise in mortgages hides ‘two-speed market’
Low interest rates are encouraging those with large deposits to invest, but are also holding back the remortgage market
EU nations get behind super-tax on bonuses
The pan-European blast undermined threats by banks that they would abandon the City for more attractive tax regimes
New rule hits high earners with pension plans
The full impact of the measure, which cut the threshold for lower relief from £150,000 to £130,000, was just sinking in
Britain 'addicted to debt,' report finds
A survey of Britain’s wealth showed that 44 per cent of the public are more inclined to spend their money than save it
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