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David Prosser: A bow for QE that may not be deserved

Outlook: So it looks as if the Bank of England's great money printing experiment is over.

Inside Business Comment

David Prosser: Glencore ahead on Xstrata

Thursday, 24 December 2009

Outlook: Glencore's bond issue yesterday prompted renewed speculation that it is planning an IPO next year. That may be so, but the more pressing issue is what the fundraising might mean for mining giant Xstrata.

David Prosser: Santa set to miss out the High Street

Thursday, 24 December 2009

Outlook: As further evidence about the performance of retailers in the run-up to Christmas dribbles in, it is still almost impossible to work out whether or not they have enjoyed a decent festive season (all the more important this time since the new year looks tough for the High Street).

David Prosser: Chancellor's stocking is still empty

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Outlook: So Alistair Darling didn't get an early Christmas present after all. After the initial, truly shocking, estimate of a third-quarter 0.4 per cent contraction in GDP, an upwards revision and better-than-expected construction numbers raised hopes that the third quarter might in the end have come in flat or even slightly ahead.

Year of discontent: demonstrators outside the Total Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire protest over the use of foreign workers

Review of the Year 2009: The corporate classes

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Fattest cats fell to earth with a bump

David Prosser: The truth is, we got off lightly

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Analysis

David Prosser: A loss of nerve at the OFT

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Outlook: A day after the incompetence of the Competition Commission led to BAA winning its appeal against a ruling from that watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading has had to confront the reality of its own regulatory cock-up.

David Prosser: Investment history rewritten?

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Outlook: Successive generations of Britons have grown up accustomed to received wisdom about investing: that while share prices can both rise and fall, over time equities tend to rise – and to outperform other asset classes. Well, as the feature on page 34 explores, that has certainly not been the case during the first decade of the 21st century.

David Prosser: BAA humbles Incompetence Commission

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Outlook: BAA is hardly likely to invest more than it can get away with in assets that it knows it will soon be selling off

David Prosser: High streets feel the chill

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Outlook: Many shoppers may simply decide not to make some of the purchases they had been planning

David Prosser: LSE makes up with some old friends

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Outlook: The launch of Turquoise prompted a tacit admission from the LSE that it had been overcharging

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Steve Richards: Predictions to keep you going until new year

The leaders’ debates will dominate the campaign, but they won’t change much.

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Hamish McRae: An optimism that has drained away

It is, from an economic perspective, a sombre end to a sombre year.

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