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Stephen King: Developing economies show the way for the US and EU to recover
Emerging nations spend their money on investment goods, not modern-day ephemera
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Hamish McRae: What the world needs now is a round of golf – between leaders of the G20
Sunday, 8 November 2009
The G20 finance ministers are gathering this weekend in St Andrews, not to play golf but to knock economic policy ideas about.
Margareta Pagano: Even at an Aldi discount, Lloyds is still a gamble
Sunday, 8 November 2009
It's hard to believe our banks were the envy of Europe
Stephen Foley: Don't despair as US jobless rate hits 10 per cent
Saturday, 7 November 2009
US Outlook: Employers make investment decisions based on their own, on-the-ground business experience, not on round numbers
David Prosser: Britain's car dealers on the scrapheap
Friday, 6 November 2009
Outlook At first sight, the scrappage scheme is working wonders for Britain's automotive sector. Car sales have risen in each of the past four months and, we learnt yesterday, October was the best month of the year yet, with a 32 per cent increase in new registrations. The extension of scrappage announced in September looks, then, to have been another shot in the arm for the motor trade.
Hamish McRae: Growth is returning but what will happen when QE is wound up?
Friday, 6 November 2009
Economic Life: There is an artificial element to the growth which people are worrying about
Sean O'Grady: Economy's house of horrors has frightened the Bank
Friday, 6 November 2009
Spooked. Though the Bank of England and its Governor, Mervyn King, would never use such indelicate language, it was not just the Hallowe'en experience that has them quaking. The Bank is spooked – shocked might be a better word – by the economy's continuing weakness.
David Prosser: No happy new year on the high street
Friday, 6 November 2009
Outlook The retail trade is ending the year as it began it. The closure of Woolworth's, completed in the first few days of January, was the UK's biggest-ever retail failure. But Threshers, which has been in administration since last week, threatens to run it close. First Quench, the parent to the business, has 1,300 stores in all, 500 more than Woolies shut in the end, and announced yesterday that 373 will be closed for starters.
Econoblog: RBS results show its a long haul for all of us
Friday, 6 November 2009
Nothing illustrates the Government's central dilemma over the economy better than the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Ben Chu: Separate the banks - even some bankers now agree
Friday, 6 November 2009
The argument against separating retail banks from their investment banking operations has got to be on shaky ground when even the financiers who originally pushed for the repeal of Glass-Steagall now say it was a bad idea.
James Moore: GM needs to prove worthy of our money
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Outlook: So the horse trading begins again. Just a day after the Government pumped a truly obscene amount of taxpayer's cash into two zombie banks, the motor manufacturers are at it with General Motors wanting some financial candy of its own as the price for protecting thousands of British jobs. To be fair, there's good news to report here. The volte face made by GM on the sale of its European operations is infinitely preferable for Vauxhaull car workers in this country when compared to the alternative arrangement.
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