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BT shares plunge 25% to record low after shock £80m profits warning [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Shares in telecoms giant BT Group plunged 24.7% today after it issued a shock warning that its profits will come in some £80m lower and revealed the boss of its Global Services division has resigned
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Arab states' £5.8bn boost to Barclays [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Barclays will raise £7.3bn from Arab investors and others to allow it to pass regulators' capital demands without a Government bailout
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Market report: Friday latest [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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09.30:Rumours swept the City today of thumping losses at one of Europe's biggest banks as the fallout from the Volkswagen affair spread to London
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Nigerian posed as Des O'Connor in card fraud [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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A John Lewis sales assistant who spent nearly £1,000 of TV presenter Des OConnors money as part of a massive credit card scam has been jailed for 18 months
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Energy firms get a roasting [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Customer dissatisfaction with gas and electricity suppliers has rocketed after a year of price rises, a survey by price-comparison site Uswitch has found
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A quarter of bosses prepare to cut jobs [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Workers will be warned today to brace themselves for an 'avalanche' of redundancies
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John Lewis sales fall states rate cut case [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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A near-10% fall in year-on-year sales at John Lewis last week will pile pressure on the Bank of england to slash interest rates next week to bring relief to retailers.
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Darling hints at tax cut to cope with slump [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Alistair Darling yesterday hinted the Government may borrow more money for surprise tax cuts as Britain faces a deep recession
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Abbey staff froze my account in revenge [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Customer hit with £60 charges and had his identity changed in revenge for giving a bad service rating
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Fears for world economy as US GDP shrinks 0.3% [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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The outlook for the global economy took a dive tonight as the US suffered its biggest decline since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001
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Pizza king Osmond to get through downturn [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Former Pizza Express owner Hugh Osmond is nominated as the best credit crunch survivor in the Esquire awards
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What Obama means for the world economy [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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It appears increasingly likely that Barack Obama will win the US presidential election, but who will be the economic winners and losers?
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Darling gives Bank a nudge on rate cuts [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hopes of a deep interest rate cut rose today after Chancellor Alistair Darling underlined his message that the Bank of England was now free to slash borrowing costs
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One in ten small firms could go under [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Daily Mail campaign:One in ten small firms has been brought to the brink of collapse by the economic crisis, research reveals today
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Hedge funds face Volkswagen share storm [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Volkswagen briefly became the world's biggest company as it motored into a share dealing storm that could leave a number of top hedge funds with heavy losses
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Economy holds US election key [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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One of the first tasks for next week's election victor, widely assumed to be Barack Obama, will be to rebuild economic confidence
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Midas Extra: Phaunos and May Gurney [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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With-profits dumped for sexier subjects [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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Brokers are betting blind and may leave you broke [10/31/2008 01:17 PM]
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