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Interest rates set to fall again on Thursday

00:01 | 07 Jan 2009 | By Nicholas Paler

The majority of experts expect a 50 basis point cut this week, but other methods may soon be needed to fire the UK economy. 

Stay on top of your personal finances in 2009

00:01 | 01 Jan 2009 | By Lorna Bourke

As we move into 2009 what are the main issues for consumers and what should we all be looking out for?

Investing for children

00:01 | 18 Dec 2008 | By Lorna Bourke

Child Trust Funds have their limits. So where else should you go to invest for children?

Fund managers admit complicity in banking crisis

00:01 | 06 Dec 2008 | By David Campbell

Citywire rated fund managers have begun to accept some level of culpability for the deepening economic gloom.

PBR 2008: VAT cut, new 45% tax rate and massive public borrowing

17:45 | 24 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Chancellor Alistair Darling has delivered an action-packed pre-budget report. Citywire brings the best analysis and the first reactions.

Are we nearing a new era of free money?

00:01 | 21 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Welcome to the age of the ZIRP.

Barclays shareholders speak out

11:09 | 20 Nov 2008 | By Nicholas Paler

Citywire has been inundated with comments from Barclays shareholders about the bank’s capital raising plans. While some are closing their accounts in protest, others welcome the bank’s strategy. 

Super sales signal desperate times on the high street

10:17 | 19 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Consumers have long been resentful of the pre-Christmas rip-off. The latest round of high street sales is a welcome acknowledgment that times have changed.

Let the US car industry die

09:25 | 17 Nov 2008 | By Richard Lander

The world’s economy will suffer if Detroit gets bailed out by Washington.

Dramatic U-turns point to deeper problems

11:14 | 13 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Hank Paulson's plan to buy toxic assets from banks has been abandoned. And the BoE has declared peace on its former foe, inflation. What is going on?  

Should you invest in BP or Shell?

09:55 | 07 Nov 2008 | By Nicholas Paler

While many top investors favour BP, they say both are a good buy.

Why won’t all lenders pass on interest rate cuts?

10:20 | 06 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Peter Mandelson has attempted to stoke up public anger about the banks’ apparent refusal to pass on interest rate cuts. But matters are a lot more complex than the government is prepared to suggest.

Lloyds on the offensive as banks sense govt weakness

10:16 | 04 Nov 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Less than a month after being rescued from disaster, banks look like negotiating remarkably generous terms over the £500 billion taxpayer bail-out.

An almighty balancing act

16:31 | 03 Nov 2008 | By Colin McClelland

As observers argue whether a win by Barack Obama would boost markets or send them tumbling, one thing is certain: the next US president will find his policies constrained by the massive economic challenge ahead.

Bring on the penguins

00:01 | 31 Oct 2008 | By Lucian Camp

Forget world cruises, what the buyers of long-term savings products really aspire to is penguins in their back gardens.

BoE failed to act on looming crisis, MPC rebel claims

11:58 | 30 Oct 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Current downturn could be worse than 1929, MPC rebel professor David Blanchflower warns, and only sharp cuts in interest rates may save us. But what, he asks, were the MPC and economists doing all this time?

Prospects for a rate cut stateside

00:01 | 28 Oct 2008 | By Nicholas Paler

It should be a close call on Wednesday in the States, but experts question whether the interest rate decision will have any impact on markets.

We need another co-ordinated rate cut

14:30 | 27 Oct 2008 | By Deborah Hyde

As the global mood continues to blacken, all the signals point towards the need for central banks to take decisive action.

The Morning Line: Keynes is back; time for a quick primer

10:12 | 27 Oct 2008 | By Richard Lander

Keynesianism is the new black – an indication of the desperate times we are in.

The Asian sell-off

09:54 | 27 Oct 2008 | By Deborah Hyde

The prospects for Asian markets and their effects on the UK investor.

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