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The price of key industrial metals has fallen further over the last four months than occurred during the worst years of Great Depression between 1929 and 1933, according to research by Barclays Capital.
Metal prices fall further than during Great Depression
Investors are predicting the likelihood of the UK Government defaulting on its debt is higher than that of Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Finland, Germany and Norway failing to pay back their loans.
UK debt seen as riskier than France and Germany
Changes over the past few days alone: The US yield-curve continues its dramatic flattening. All of which is quite in line with the quantitative easing policy - designed to bolster the economy by flooding the banking system with money - that dare not speak its name at the Fed.
Collapsing yields, a twisting Fed
The three major US car makers promised to cut costs, axe executive bonuses and invest in fuel-efficient new technologies in return for access to government loans, as the latest sales figures showed the dire state of the industry.
General Motors in desperate plea for $18bn to stay afloat
The cost of credit insurance is set to rise after Euler Hermes, the world's market leader, issued a profit warning after the collapse of Woolworths, the British retailer.
Euler Hermes, world's biggest credit insurer says premiums may rise as companies fail
The Financial Services Authority said yesterday that more than half a million Halifax customers on tracker mortgages should benefit from further interest rate cuts even though the small print on their loans supposedly prevents them from doing so.
Financial Services Authority says Halifax tracker loans must fall in line with bank rate cuts
My nominee is someone whose name may not be familiar to American audiences. Hes Fred Goodwin, who until October served as CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland. He aced every requirement for a hubristic CEO.
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