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Shares spotlight: Cambrian Mining & Hyder Consulting [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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Graeme Dickson has been trading the financial markets for nine years - here he focuses on one stock of note from the last few days, and highlights one to watch out for in the coming week
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Midas Extra share tips: Tenon and RWS [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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The Financial Mail on Sunday's respected stock picker looks at two outside bets, Tenon & RWS
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Brown 'too late' in fighting slowdown [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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The new chairman of the London Development Agency today blamed the Government for putting London's economy at risk
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Gates hands over Microsoft control [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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Bill Gates is to step down from the management of Microsoft, the software giant he founded 33 years ago
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Metals trio jailed over £500m banks scam [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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One of London's richest men faces ten years behind bars after conning banks out of £500m in metal scam
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Market report: Thursday close [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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17.00:Shareholders of Royal Bank of Scotland have until tomorrow to decide whether to take up the group's £12bn rights issue
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Slowdown fears but rates kept at 5% [06/05/2008 06:27 PM]
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The Bank of England today left interest rates unchanged despite growing fears of a vicious slowdown in the economy
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North Sea oil 'will last for half a century' [06/05/2008 11:33 AM]
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The North Sea isn't running out of oil at all, industry analysts say
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B&B: Last rights for underwriters [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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There has been an enormous amount of agitation about the Bradford & Bingley rights issue with motormouths across the Square Mile sounding off
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Complaints over air tickets double [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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Air passenger complaints about booking errors have more than doubled as consumers are left out of pocket because of mistakes made by airlines
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RBS poised to clinch vote on rights issue [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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After months of nail-biting and wild swings in the share price, Royal Bank of Scotland's controversial £12bn rights issue looks set for success
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Lloyds picks up Rock fixed-rate customers [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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Lloyds TSB today struck a deal with the former building society to switch thousands of its fixed-rate mortgage customers across to the sign of the Black Horse
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Market report: Thursday latest [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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09.20:Billionaire George Soros' warning that the boom in commodity prices could turn out to be a 'super bubble', may have dire consequences for the London stock market
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Crackdown could spell end of PPI rip-off [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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Lenders may be banned from pushing controversial payment protection insurance onto customers when they apply for loans and credit cards
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House prices fall £15,000 since August [06/05/2008 10:59 AM]
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The average home has fallen in value by more than £15,000 since the peak in August last year according to the latest Halifax house price report
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The Bank of England's tug-of-war [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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The government would dearly like to reform the Bank of England's stability wing to give it more authority to act in financial crises
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Taxman must offer real pensions help? [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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HMRC has bowed to pressure over the tax burden on those with small pensions, but still the taxman and our leaders don't seem to understand the real problems
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Barclays bigwig makes £15m from house [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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The wealthy City banker hired by Boris Johnson to help raise money for London's deprived teenagers has landed a £15m profit from selling his house
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Apple starts online film rentals [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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Apple today pledged to kill the high street video store with a new online film rentals service
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Banks hit for £70bn since Rock disaster [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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More than £70bn has been wiped off the value of the big banks since the Northern Rock debacle
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Darling faces MPs over 10p tax band [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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Chancellor Alistair Darling today faces a grilling from a senior MPs over his effort to help victims of abolishing the 10p tax rate
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70,000 homes 'facing council tax hike' [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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More than 70,000 households are paying hundreds of pounds extra in council tax after Labour revalued their homes 'by stealth', it has been claimed
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28% of young buyers priced out [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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More than one in four young people are priced out of their local housing market with matters made worse by the credit crunch, research showed today
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FSA shuts down 'land banking' firm [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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The Financial Services Authority is looking to close down the UK's largest 'land banking' scheme selling Green Belt land with promises of development potential
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Market report: Wednesday close [06/04/2008 07:42 PM]
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17.00:Another major City player has come out saying that trading conditions for housebuilders are set to get worse, paving the way for another sell-off
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