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Saturday
Britain will slump into deflation next year for the first time in half a century, experts have warned.
Britain faces deflation for first time since 1960
The unprecedented effort by Governments and central banks to get banks lending to each other again showed the first signs of paying off this week.
Banking freeze shows first sign of thawing
Insurers suffered further falls on the stock market due to fears about the impact of corporate defaults on their capital cushions.
Insurers tumble on corporate default worries
Mayfair, the centre of the London's hedge fund industry, is alive with speculation that one of the world's major hedge funds is set to collapse, bringing a fresh wave of selling and volatility on the world's stock markets.
Hedge fund giants 'are next crisis victims'
ING, the Dutch banking and insurance group, is this weekend believed to be in talks with the countrys government and regulators about a possible capital injection, underlining ongoing fears about the potential fallout from the global financial crisis.
ING in talks on capital boost
Caisse d'Epargne announced a 600 million (466 million) loss yesterday after a team of derivatives traders ignored warnings over stock market turbulence to place unauthorised bets this month.
Caisse d'Epargne admits rogue team lost 600m
Lloyds TSB's takeover bid for HBOS has taken a hit as pressure mounted on the Government to allow dividends to be paid to shareholders in banks taking state aid in the next few years.
Lloyds TSB's HBOS deal comes under dividend presssure
The Serious Fraud Office could launch an inquiry into BBC business editor Robert Peston's recent string of market-moving banking 'scoops' after David Cameron's Tories raised suspicions that he could have a 'mole' inside 10 Downing Street or the Treasury.
SFO may launch probe into Peston bank scoops
The Russian Government said that it would tap its sovereign wealth fund to buy shares in Russian companies and shore up values in the collapsing Moscow stock markets.
Russia taps sovereign fund to save markets
The International Monetary Fund is prepared to offer Ukraine a $14bn (8bn) loan, as fears grow that several Eastern European countries face financial collapse on the scale of Iceland.
Ukraine sets up 8bn loan from IMF
Warren Buffett has dismissed the volatility in world markets and the bearish outlook for the global economy to begin investing in US equities in what is a highly contrary move from one of the world's most successful investors.
Warren Buffett says it's time to buy US shares
The full text of the letter written by fund manager Andrew Lahde.
The astonishing sign off of a wealthy fund manager in full
Sunday
The $54trillion credit derivatives market faces a delicate test as $360bn worth of contracts on now-defaulted derivatives on Lehman Brothers are due to be settled on Tuesday.
Markets hold breath as $360bn Lehman swaps unwind
President George W. Bush will host a global summit of world leaders in the near future to discuss the worldwide economic crisis and find ways of preventing a repetition of the recent financial meltdown.
George Bush to host global economic summit
BRITAINs economy is out of the financial frying pan and into the fires of recession, according to a forecast from the Ernst & Young Item Club to be published tomorrow.
Banking crisis infects the real economy