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Brown delays Budget to draft economy plan - Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are set to postpone the Budget until April as they consider whether to try a new economic stimulus package



Brown delays Budget to draft economy plan  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are set to postpone the Budget until April as they consider whether to try a new economic stimulus package
Barclays shares rocket 60% higher  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Barclays has admitted to credit market losses of £8bn last year but denied that it faced problems in an open letter to the market
Stock market report: Monday latest  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
12.10:Banks staged a charge today on the back of Barclays' reassurances that it continues to trade profitably
Shoe chain Barratts and PriceLess go under  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Administrators have been were appointed to shoe chains Barratts and PriceLess, the latest High Street victims of the recession
2,500 steel jobs to go in week of gloom  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Steel manufacturer Corus is preparing to axe more than 2,500 UK jobs this week, around 10% of its workforce, it has been announced
House prices fall for 16th month but lending is up  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
House prices fell for the 16th month in a row during January despite a rise in mortgage approvals in December
Lending famine spurs fresh pound plunge  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Sterling tumbled towards new 23-year-lows today as data from the banks highlighted the state of Britain's mortgage and commercial lending markets
The cities most exposed to recession  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Leading UK cities will be hit harder than they think by the recession, with regions outside the South East likely to suffer the most, a new report shows
Divorce 'makes women poorer and men richer'  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Women face a serious risk of being plunged into poverty after divorce - whereas men are often better off financially, a study has revealed
FTSE 100 firms dwarfed by own pension funds  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
As the market values of our biggest blue-chip companies slump, many are now smaller than the pension funds they support
Treasury may block bank bonuses  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Massive bank bonuses could be vetoed by the Treasury - but not before the men who broke Britain walk away with millions
Recession hits female workers harder  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
More women are losing their jobs than men as the recession bites, according to figures published yesterday
Cost of shopping basket down 8% a month  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Shopping basket inflation has fallen to its lowest level since April, according to the Daily Mail's Cost of Living Index
Britain was 'three hours from going bust'  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Britain's financial system was just three hours away from collapse last year after a secret run on the banks, one of Gordon Brown's Ministers has revealed
Gas customers rue fixed-rate deals  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Nearly one million British Gas customers are out of pocket after the energy giant announced a 10% cut in its general tariff
The real lesson in sterling's slide  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Midas share tips: Admiral Group and H&T  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: Pensioner told to hand back £28,000  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
A letter of shame from British Gas  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]
Euro children want our cash  [01/26/2009 01:17 PM]