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HM Treasury today becomes perhaps the biggest hedge fund in the UK: it is investing £25.5bn in Royal Bank of Scotland shares and £5.7bn in Lloyds shares, financed almost exclusively by borrowing. It's probably quite good business. If we're past...
02/11/2009 | 689 Hits | Read more...

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I am still away sorting out my family stuff. But I could not let the most significant ever forced reconstruction of the British banking industry go by (one of the most important ordained reconstructions of any UK industry) without sticking my oar...
02/11/2009 | 746 Hits | Read more...

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Please forgive me for not having published a column for a bit. I've been pre-occupied sorting out family stuff. That stuff isn't quite ticketyboo yet. So the blog will go into hibernation for some weeks (please don't look so pleased). There...
21/10/2009 | 725 Hits | Read more...

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The Chancellor isn't going to let Lloyds out of the Government Asset Protection Scheme (GAPS) without extracting a price. The Treasury saved Lloyds earlier this year by promising to provide it with the protection of GAPS - which was a statement...
08/10/2009 | 707 Hits | Read more...

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I'm not quite sure why there has been another great flurry of speculation overnight about how Lloyds intends to raise additional capital. Nothing very significant has changed since the last couple of times I wrote about this (in my notes Lloyds:...
08/10/2009 | 743 Hits | Read more...

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George Osborne's speech to the Conservative Party conference contained a striking number of eye-catching proposals. What he appeared in the round to be proposing was a programme of national sacrifice to reduce debt and create a culture of saving....
06/10/2009 | 863 Hits | Read more...

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I've talked before about the fallacy of composition arising from all banks discovering virtue and prudence at the same time. If all banks increase their holdings of liquid assets, shrink their reliance on wholesale finance and lend less relative...
06/10/2009 | 788 Hits | Read more...

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There's a broad consensus that economic recovery is under way more-or-less everywhere. Where there is considerably less agreement is whether that recovery will be strong and sustained, feeble and fragile or just the brief prelude to another...
05/10/2009 | 703 Hits | Read more...

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If, as expected, the Serious Fraud Office announces today that it intends to request permission from the attorney general to prosecute BAE, that will be an important milestone in perhaps the most sensational criminal case ever against a big British...
30/09/2009 | 637 Hits | Read more...

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Gordon Brown made a not especially hilarious joke yesterday in his conference speech by saying that if he were to praise Alistair Darling as the best chancellor of the exchequer ever, the media would write the headline "Brown snubs Brown" - or that...
29/09/2009 | 687 Hits | Read more...

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The chancellor and the prime minister are certainly not lowering the temperature of their attack on banks' bonuses. Which, I suppose, is significant - even if there's nothing new of substance that they've announced in the past 24 hours or are...
28/09/2009 | 162 Hits | Read more...

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Gordon Brown just told Andrew Marr that there would be legislation to curb bankers' bonuses - and he implied that what he planned would be tougher on bankers and banks than what other countries were doing. How significant is this? Well not...
27/09/2009 | 169 Hits | Read more...

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Tony Ball has walked away from ITV. The former Sky boss will not become chief executive of the commercial broadcaster, I have learned. He had set a deadline of this weekend to agree terms and the two sides failed to sort out everything....
25/09/2009 | 133 Hits | Read more...

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Plainly the most important announcement to come out Pittsburgh today will be that the G20 group of nations will replace the G8 as the permanent council for economic co-operation and - especially in extremis - economic co-ordination. It's a big...
25/09/2009 | 152 Hits | Read more...

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No member of the government is closer to Gordon Brown than Shriti Vadera. The former banker was an adviser through his many years as chancellor and has been a minister since he became prime minister. In a way, she's his personal investment...
24/09/2009 | 145 Hits | Read more...

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It has started, as it inevitably would: the process of companies trying to reduce their costs as we come out of recession by merging with businesses in their own industries - or what are known as in-market mergers. Today we've had the announcement...
07/09/2009 | 196 Hits | Read more...

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Just out of interest, which do you think is more important: limiting how much bankers are paid, or strengthening banks so that they are better able to absorb losses on loans and investments and less likely to run out of cash when creditors demand...
07/09/2009 | 173 Hits | Read more...

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I'm in New York filming a piece on where we are in respect of reform and recovery as we approach the anniversary of the demise of Lehman Brothers. But I felt compelled to break off for a few minutes to assess the proposals advanced today by the...
03/09/2009 | 170 Hits | Read more...

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I presented the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Here's the text. It is an honour to be giving a lecture in memory of Richard Dunn. I never met him but he was - by all accounts - both...
29/08/2009 | 163 Hits | Read more...

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If you want to know why quantitative easing may not be working - in the sense that it hasn't led to a conspicuous increase in lending - this morning's financial results from Royal Bank of Scotland give a pretty good clue. I'll explain.   In...
07/08/2009 | 174 Hits | Read more...

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Although news organisations are fierce competitors, there was an almost audible sigh of relief from most of them when Rupert Murdoch said that News Corporation would start charging for access to its online news sites. It's not just that the worst...
06/08/2009 | 177 Hits | Read more...

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Lloyds Banking Group's first half results are witness to the quite astonishing risks taken by HBOS, the bank that Lloyds agreed to buy and rescue - in very controversial circumstances - in the autumn of last year. It was HBOS's business loans -...
05/08/2009 | 179 Hits | Read more...

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Northern Rock's losses are a reminder - not that we need them after a recession caused by a banking crisis - that bankers depart from the boring rules of sensible old-fashioned prudent banking at their (and our) peril. During the boom years, the...
03/08/2009 | 175 Hits | Read more...

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The big question in this week of banking results will be whether the banks are doing enough to support the economy, following all the help they've received from taxpayers. Of course, different banks have required different amounts and different...
03/08/2009 | 168 Hits | Read more...

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The most resonant measure of how well Barclays has performed is that the average pay and benefits of the 22,000 people who work for its investment bank, Barclays Capital, was almost exactly £100,000 for just the first six months of the year. In...
02/08/2009 | 187 Hits | Read more...

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As the Treasury select committee says, the "who-gets-fired" test is a pretty good way of ascertaining whether there are clear lines of responsibility in any organisation or group of organisations. That said, most of our personal experience would...
31/07/2009 | 153 Hits | Read more...

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BT seems to me to have been a bit disingenuous this morning in the way it has presented its first quarter results. The impression it creates is of steady-as-she goes in its retail and wholesale broadband and telephony businesses. And that the...
30/07/2009 | 98 Hits | Read more...

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I routinely characterise the credit crunch as "men behaving badly" - because it's almost impossible to find a woman to blame. The reckless chief executives of banks who went on a borrowing and lending binge: all men.
29/07/2009 | 114 Hits

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The following seemingly unconnected events of the past 24 hours all have a big thing in common: a) the chancellor of the exchequer warning big banks that he fears they may be overcharging companies for credit and withholding vital loans from...
28/07/2009 | 152 Hits | Read more...

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Okay, here's some news (well, sort of). The leaders are close to agreement on the big money questions. There will be a significant increase in the resources of the IMF, the emergency rescue service for ailing economies. The increment in...
02/04/2009 | 256 Hits | Read more...

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The journalist on the bus next to me is snoring like it's going out of fashion. It's 7am and I have been cleared by the first security screening and am now sitting on a bus waiting to be shuttled to the next electronic frisk and probe. ...
01/04/2009 | 252 Hits | Read more...

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On the Ten O' Clock News last night, I said there's unlikely to be a return to business as usual in the global economy unless and until there's confidence that the banking system has been fixed and reformed. Which is the respectable...
01/04/2009 | 287 Hits | Read more...

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In the first three months of 2009, Marks & Spencer's sales in the UK - where it's the clothing market leader - fell by 0.3% and its profit margin shrank by 1.75 percentage points. Which is why the pre-tax profits for M&S's last...
31/03/2009 | 233 Hits | Read more...

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Here are the important numbers that explain how Dunfermline lost its independence. It has made £648m of commercial property loans in Scotland and the North of England. Of that, around £500m of these loans were made in the past three...
30/03/2009 | 212 Hits | Read more...

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I have learned that Nationwide is likely to emerge as the buyer of Dunfermline's branches, good loans and deposits. And it will also take on Dunfermline's 530 staff. The Treasury will take over £1bn of commercial property lending and...
29/03/2009 | 247 Hits | Read more...

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You don't have to be a Barclays shareholder or customer to be relieved that the blue-badged bank has been told by the Financial Services Authority that there's no pressing need for it to raise substantial amounts of new capital. The FSA,...
28/03/2009 | 216 Hits | Read more...

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If anyone thought that investors don't want to lend to HMG at any price (not me guv), that idea has been well and truly exploded by the handsome success today of an auction of £1.1bn of index-linked gilts. What that shows is that - on...
26/03/2009 | 236 Hits | Read more...

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Whoops. This government has suffered its first setback in financing its eye-wateringly large borrowing needs. And what gives resonance to the flop of a relatively modest sale of gilts or government bonds is that it comes a day after Mervyn King...
25/03/2009 | 200 Hits | Read more...

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Only yesterday, or the day before, financial globalisation was supposedly about making sure that capital was transferred to those parts of the world that could invest it most productively. That so much of the exporting nations' surpluses in...
24/03/2009 | 225 Hits | Read more...

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Timothy Geithner's partnership with the private sector to buy impaired assets is considerably less ambitious than Alistair Darling's asset protection scheme. That can be seen from the crude numbers. The British chancellor is providing...
23/03/2009 | 157 Hits | Read more...

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Before the market in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) started to implode in 2007, many of these securities constructed out of low-quality subprime loans were sold as AAA investments - the highest quality investments, up there with the...
23/03/2009 | 161 Hits | Read more...

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The National Audit Office's report into the events leading up to the nationalisation of Northern Rock can be captured in three simple points, none of which will surprise you: 1) In 2004 and subsequently, the Treasury - under the then...
20/03/2009 | 114 Hits | Read more...

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As a young, eager and arrogant banking correspondent in the mid 1980s, I was underwhelmed by the calibre of those running our biggest banks. They seemed too easily seduced into lending to crooks such as Robert Maxwell, or to spivs running...
19/03/2009 | 145 Hits | Read more...

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The new market changes have had an impact on the rather contrasting currencies today. Indeed, the dollar still enjoys its status as a safe but has lost ground against the euro and the yen due to return to the appetite for risk among currency...
26/11/2008 | 266 Hits | Read more...

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In our editorial, writing forex up trying to find its readers new aspects of trading on the foreign exchange market. This includes zoom in on some emerging market currencies on the foreign exchange market. Called emerging currencies as well as...
26/11/2008 | 268 Hits | Read more...

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The perplexity almost reads on the faces. Indeed, investors in the foreign exchange market rather coldly greeted the announcement of the Federal Reserve to raise nearly 800 billion dollars to boost consumption and the real estate market, two main...
26/11/2008 | 256 Hits | Read more...

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Surprise, surprise ... according to information provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) stocks of crude oil grew last week the United States more important than analysts predicted. Changes in stocks followed the same trend, while...
26/11/2008 | 284 Hits | Read more...

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I was going to give some Dillard’s gift cards for Christmas, but I keep hearing that they will be closing after Christmas. I will change my plan if that is true. Can you find out? Also, while we are on the subject of closing, I also heard that...
26/11/2008 | 448 Hits | Read more...

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The manner of Woolworth's demise as a going concern was almost as shocking as the fact of its collapse into administration. Although Woolworth had been one of the UK's weaker retailers for years - propped up by a decade of benign,...
25/11/2008 | 292 Hits | Read more...

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President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Peter Orszag to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the president's federal budget "page by page, line by line" to get rid of programs that simply don't work, and...
25/11/2008 | 244 Hits | Read more...

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Aronautique group EADS, parent company of Airbus announced Monday through a spokesman that he would retain its three German plants until the end of 2011. The agreement with the unions should be finalized in "coming days". Vast and...
25/11/2008 | 321 Hits | Read more...

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A "happiness" never alone, prices for wheat, corn and soybeans rebounded Monday on the futures market in Chicago. They take up huge loans the price of crude, which was boosted by good news about Citigroup and a decline of the dollar. ...
25/11/2008 | 272 Hits | Read more...

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Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of the board of the Russian group Gazprom, announced Monday that Russia was developing a program for development of gas sector in Peru. The latter will take shape under an ad hoc agreement to be signed in the...
25/11/2008 | 261 Hits | Read more...

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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama named his economic team Monday, tapping New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as treasury secretary to deal "an economic crisis of historic proportions." At a news conference 57 days...
24/11/2008 | 220 Hits | Read more...

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The U.S. government announced a plan to rescue the U.S. bank Citigroup, agreeing to guarantee the most potential loss of a portfolio of 306 billion dollars of risky assets, including real estate. The plan announced Sunday evening is currently...
23/11/2008 | 207 Hits | Read more...

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It is feared that the Russian giant Gazprom to take his hand on the Spanish Repsol oil ... but Moscow could gain a foothold in Spain - so it is more strategic - via the "intermediate" group Loukoil hydrocarbons. "Jolie" how to...
23/11/2008 | 215 Hits | Read more...

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Sign of the times? As the crisis cars gradually falling sales of manufacturers, the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced Thursday the signing of a memorandum of agreement with Monaco. The latter aims to promote the use of electric vehicles in the...
23/11/2008 | 205 Hits | Read more...

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The overnight bailout by the US authorities of Citigroup is big and fairly complicated, but then it had to be: until recently Citi was the biggest bank in the world and even today its assets are not far off the size of Britain's economic output....
23/11/2008 | 212 Hits | Read more...

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Blackmail made by Moscow to Ukraine on tariff and transit of gas is divided ... the same scenario as that "used" three years ago seemed to be applied. While Russia had grelotter the whole of Europe the transition from 2005 to 2006, the...
22/11/2008 | 204 Hits | Read more...

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Pressure intensified on Citigroup to sell part or all of itself as its stock fell below $4 a share on Friday and fears escalated about future loan losses. CEO Vikram Pandit told managers earlier in the day he opposes breaking up the company, but...
22/11/2008 | 219 Hits | Read more...

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All continents and all manufacturers now seem affected by the crisis car, and the Japanese are no exception ... While the United States are particularly affected, the Empire of the Rising Sun seems to be very difficult now to save the furniture...
22/11/2008 | 221 Hits | Read more...

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All continents and all manufacturers now seem affected by the crisis car, and the Japanese are no exception ... While the United States are particularly affected, the Empire of the Rising Sun seems to be very difficult now to save the furniture...
22/11/2008 | 223 Hits | Read more...

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New consequence of the major concerns weighing on the future of the U.S. automotive industry and the general decline in sales of manufacturers: the price of platinum and palladium are left to decline during the past week. Remember that these two...
22/11/2008 | 196 Hits | Read more...

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European ministers Budget Friday reached an agreement to release three-year aid of one billion euros promised in July to farmers in poor countries, announced the French presidency of the European Union. Daily Finance and Investment Tips / Make Money...
21/11/2008 | 200 Hits | Read more...

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Thursday that the Strategic Investment Fund is ready to French "have alliances with other sovereign countries. The Head of State announced during a visit in the Loir et Cher that he intended to...
21/11/2008 | 180 Hits | Read more...

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Sign of the times? Coincidence of timing? While Nicolas Sarkozy is fair to say that the Strategic Investment Fund French was ready to "have alliances with other sovereign foreign government of the Sultanate of Oman announced Thursday its...
21/11/2008 | 227 Hits | Read more...

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The number of new unemployed in the United States surged during the week ended Nov. 15. 542,000 new cases were filed, according to seasonally adjusted data published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor. Analysts on average were expecting...
21/11/2008 | 197 Hits | Read more...

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Current trends in the foreign exchange market only to confirm. Indeed, the weakening of the currency of the euro area is no longer in doubt, despite bursts of light. In addition disabilities mentioned in the article yesterday, including particularly...
20/11/2008 | 208 Hits | Read more...

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We had already discussed the beginnings erratic mortgages rechargeable. It is this time to have a reserve of money at a rate mortgage, this seems far-fetched, especially today. Yet it is already possible for some ten years on the other side of the...
20/11/2008 | 200 Hits | Read more...

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The government ended Wednesday functions of the current CEO of the former National Society of explosives (SNPE) has announced the release of the Council of Ministers. This would be one of the first steps of privatization of the company we were...
20/11/2008 | 260 Hits | Read more...

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The recession is approaching at full speed in Spain, which was confirmed Wednesday the downturn at the third quarter, while the prospects of rebound are limited according to the OECD, which calls for painful reforms to the workers. The National...
19/11/2008 | 213 Hits | Read more...

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It's very rare indeed for a bastion of Britain's corporate establishment to say sorry about anything - let alone say it in a public meeting. So Sir Tom Mckillop's big sorry to shareholders, customers and employees is a proper event. ...
02/11/2008 | 166 Hits | Read more...

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I have learned that Woolworth, one of the UK's best known and oldest store groups, will tonight file to go into administration under UK insolvency procedures. The board will meet at 6pm to take the formal decision. Deloitte will be appointed...
27/10/2008 | 207 Hits | Read more...

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As I said boringly and monotonously on Monday, before during and after the pre-Budget report, the overhang of excessive debt accumulated in the boom years remains the biggest problem for the UK economy and for the world. The past, current and...
27/10/2008 | 199 Hits | Read more...

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Net new mortgage lending is likely to fall to less than zero next year, according to a report commissioned by the Treasury from Sir James Crosby, the former chief executive of HBOS, owner of the Halifax. Sir James is warning that as homeowners are...
27/10/2008 | 221 Hits | Read more...

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There were three big numbers announced in the pre-Budget report. The biggest and most startling is that more than £500bn is being added to the national debt between now and 2015. And the amounts that the government will be borrowing over...
27/10/2008 | 217 Hits | Read more...

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On Monday, the chancellor will admit, by implication, that the government's industrial policy of the past decade has been something of a disaster. Actually to call it an industrial policy is a bit misleading - but what I mean is the...
27/10/2008 | 220 Hits | Read more...

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In saying that there's a case for nationalising the entire British banking system, John McFall - the chairman of Commons Treasury select committee - has shone a light on the paradox of the recent global rescue of the world's biggest banks...
27/10/2008 | 229 Hits | Read more...

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In the next day or two, Sir Peter Burt and Sir George Mathewson will pull up their tent pegs and relocate themselves away from the furore over HBOS's future. The duo of veteran Scottish bankers will announce that the barriers to keeping HBOS...
27/10/2008 | 254 Hits | Read more...

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The chancellor has this morning delivered a swingeing kick to Sir George Mathewson, Sir Peter Burt and any HBOS shareholders who may think the battered mortgage bank has an exciting future as a state-supported independent bank. The context is the...
27/10/2008 | 229 Hits | Read more...

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