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UBS crisis sends shockwave through banks

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UBS crisis sends shockwave through banks - The chairman of Swiss banking giant UBS today resigned as bank announced massive £9.6bn of subprime writedowns UBS Chairman Marcel Ospel Rock repossess thousands of homes - Thousands of families face being evicted from homes year by Northern Rock, Government-owned bank has admitted Northern Rock branch



UBS crisis sends shockwave through banks  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
The chairman of Swiss banking giant UBS today resigned as the bank announced a massive £9.6bn of subprime writedowns UBS Chairman Marcel Ospel
Rock to repossess thousands of homes  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Thousands of families face being evicted from their homes this year by Northern Rock, the Government-owned bank has admitted Northern Rock branch
Market report: Tuesday latest  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
13.00:Leading shares are expected to open slightly lower on the first day of the second quarter, with midcaps Ferrexpo and Babcock International taking centre stage BGC Brokers L.P. trader at canary Wharf, jan 22nd 2008
Mortgages cost up to third of income  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Study shows mortgages consuming a record share of household incomes, accentuating the risks of a major slump. Property for sale signs
Drivers hit by record 3.5m parking fines  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
A record 3.58m drivers were hit with parking fines that funnelled £214m into council coffers in a single year. Parking meter
New depths of gloom in Japan  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Japan's largest manufacturers are at their gloomiest in four years as exporters struggle with a rising yen and collapsing consumer demand in the US Tokyo Japan
Actors wanted to fill airline seats  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
A budget airline has advertised for actors to pose as passengers in an attempt to avoid a £280,000 commercial penalty for having too many empty seats Flybe plane budget airline
T5 debacle could cost BA £50m  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
The Terminal 5 fiasco could cost British Airways as much as £50m, City analysts said today Passengers queue to check in at Terminal 5, Heathrow
Fears of job cuts put a block on prime house prices  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
House prices in the most expensive parts of London barely rose last month as the crisis in financial markets deepened and the City prepared for mass job cuts Westminster and the London eye
Queen cancels party over recession fears  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
The Queen has cancelled her diamond wedding anniversary celebrations as she felt it would be 'inappropriate' to hold them while recession looms Buckingham Palace
Northern Rock pays for ex-chief's security  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Northern Rock paid for a 'ring of steel' to be thrown around former boss Adam Applegarth's home after he received threats from shareholders. Adam Applegarth
House prices fall for sixth month in a row  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Annual house price growth stalled during March as prices fell for the sixth month in a row, figures showed today Estate agents, property for sale
Property wobbles as buy-to-let feels pinch  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Problems in buy-to-let could easily destabilise the whole property market
Northern Rock: An uphill climb for Sandler  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Ron Sandler's recovery plan must make reassuring reading for Alistair Darling. By his calculations the Rock will return to profit in 2011, and the government can off-load it to a private purchaser soon after
30 second guide to shareholder activism  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail city team explains how shareholder activism works
Midas share tips: Whitbread and Hamworthy  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Whitbread is one of Britain's oldest companies, and the Whitbread of today is one that its founder would barely recognise
Hetherington: Saint Pauls Capital  [04/01/2008 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's Readers' Chamption finds that, on a second investigation, there is more to Saint Pauls Capital than meets the eye